Ocean Beach · Urban Centre

Language in Ocean Beach

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

Almost everyone in Ocean Beach speaks English daily, making it a very linguistically uniform place. Just 3.3% of residents use a language other than English at home, a figure that has barely changed since 2011.

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📍 Ocean Beach, Urban Centre

Languages at home

English and the largest community languages.

English is the only language used by 91.5% of the population. This is far below the national figure of 22.3%, and there are no residents who speak little or no English.

3.3% ▼ -6.3%

Lower than 56% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 3.5%
  • 2016: 3.4%
  • 2021: 3.3%

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

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.

  • 2016: 0.6%
  • 2021: 0.0%

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 Beach, English only is the majority at 99%; Tagalog is next at 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 Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL521039/ocean-beach/topic/language