The parish with the highest proportion of speakers (8%) is Saint Ouen, and the parish with the lowest proportion (2.1%) is Saint Helier, although Saint Helier as the largest parish has the highest number of speakers. The number of census respondents who stated that they "usually" spoke was 113; 2,761 respondents stated that they "sometimes" spoke . A survey carried out among a sample of speakers in 1996 found that 18% spoke more often than English, 66% spoke as often as English, and 16% spoke less often than English.