1.7% ▼ -41.0%
Lower than 84% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.9%
- 2016: 6.0%
- 2021: 1.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Oakhurst · Urban Centre
Language in Oakhurst
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far lower share of people speak a language other than English in Oakhurst compared to the rest of the state. Only 1.7% of residents use another language at home, which is well below the national figure of 22.3%. This makes the area much less linguistically diverse than most other Australian communities.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the dominant language here, spoken by 66.1% of the population. The proportion of people using another language at home fell 1.2 percentage points since 2011, and those who speak little or no English are well below the national average at just 0.2%.
0.2% ▼ -49.3%
Higher than 52% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 0.5%
- 2021: 0.2%
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.
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 Oakhurst [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL321080/oakhurst/topic/language