Malayalam
22 speakers
Spoken at home by 0.4 per cent of residents.
Oberon, New South Wales
Languages spoken in Oberon
English is the only language spoken at home by 83 per cent of residents in Oberon, according to the 2021 Census, and Malayalam is the most common of the others. Every language besides English has fewer speakers than one resident in 100. Oberon's share is less than half the share for the City of Sydney.
- Residents
- 5,573
- Speak another language
- 219
- Languages at home
- 30
- Change since 2016
- +44.1%
Which languages other than English are spoken in Oberon?
Malayalam leads a short list of small communities.
Is Oberon typical of New South Wales?
Across New South Wales, a language other than English is at least twice as common. That puts Oberon in the upper half of New South Wales' councils.
- Oberon
- 3.9%
- New South Wales
- 25.7%
- City of Sydney
- 33.9%
Residents speaking a language other than English at home, as a share of all residents.
Do Oberon's suburbs differ much?
Pick a suburb to see its languages in full.
- OberonLed by Malayalam6%182
- BurragaLed by Croatian3%8
- Black Springs (NSW)Led by Italian3%12
- Chatham ValleyLed by Spanish3%7
- HazelgroveLed by Indonesian2%6
- Wisemans CreekLed by German1%4
- Shooters Hill0%0
- O'Connell (NSW)0%0
- Each percentage is the share of a suburb speaking a language other than English at home, over the number of people. 8 suburbs in all.
Data: ABS Census of Population and Housing 2021, language used at home, summed from Statistical Area Level 2 to council. Changes are against the 2016 Census.
How the headline share is counted: 3.9% is residents who named a language other than English, as a share of everyone. Another 713 didn't answer the question. Counting them as speaking another language would give 16.7%; leaving them out of the population altogether gives 4.5%. Higher figures quoted elsewhere usually come from one of those.
Figures for Oberon itself aren't affected by the small gap between summed suburbs and ABS national totals. Unnamed ABS categories are in every total and out of every ranked list.
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