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Ocean Shores · Urban Centre

Language in Ocean Shores

The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.

English remains the dominant language in Ocean Shores, where 82.5% of people speak only English at home. While most residents use English, the proportion of people using another language has risen to 8.8%. This is much higher than in most similar areas, though it remains far below the New South Wales figure.

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📍 Ocean Shores, Urban Centre

Languages at home

English and the largest community languages.

About 8.8% of residents use a language other than English at home, a figure that rose 4.9 percentage points since 2011. Very few people struggle with the local tongue, as only 0.5% speak little or no English, which is well below the state average.

People using another language at home

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8.8% ▲ +128.3%

Higher than 84% of urban centre areas.

Share of people who use a language other than English at home.

People who speak little or no English

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0.5% ▲ —

Higher than 63% of urban centre 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.

Language used at home

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In Ocean Shores, English only is the majority at 98%; Italian is next at 1%.

English only 82.5% Italian 0.9% Punjabi 0.4% Arabic 0.1% Mandarin 0.1% Cantonese 0.1% Greek 0.1% Tagalog 0.1%

Sources

  • Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Ocean Shores [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115115/ocean-shores/topic/language