4.0% ▲ +60.6%
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.5%
- 2016: 2.0%
- 2021: 4.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Ocean Vista · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for 91% of people in Ocean Vista. This makes the area far less linguistically diverse than most of Australia, where only 4% of residents use a language other than English at home.
English and the largest community languages.
While very few people use other languages, the 1.9% who speak little or no English is much higher than in most similar areas. Arabic is the most common non-English language spoken here at 1.2%.
4.0% ▲ +60.6%
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
1.9% ▲ —
Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use another language at home and speak English not well or not at all. No 2011 figure — that census only asked proficiency of overseas-born residents.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Ocean Vista [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60474/ocean-vista/topic/language