Punjabi
2,380 speakers
Punjabi is spoken by 2,380 of our residents at home, 2.6% of Armadale.
We are Armadale
23 per cent.
Nearly 23 in every 100 Armadale residents speak a language other than English at home. It is among the highest shares of any council in Western Australia.
- Our population
- 92,987
- Speak another language
- 21,021
- Languages at home
- 129
- Growth since last census
- +50.8%
One in 4 of us speaks a language other than English at home: 21k people, most often Punjabi, Mandarin and Malayalam. That is not a fringe of the community. It is a standing share of every audience anyone here is trying to reach.
In Western Australia
#11
of 137 Western Australia councils for the share of residents speaking a language other than English at home. #91 of 540 nationally.
What makes our community ours
Mandarin
1,753 speakers
Mandarin is spoken by 1,753 of our residents at home, 1.9% of Armadale.
Malayalam
1,652 speakers
Malayalam is spoken by 1,652 of our residents at home, 1.8% of Armadale.
The languages of Armadale
129 languages carry the conversation at home. Every one of them is spoken here.
Each block below is scaled to the number of people who speak that language at home, and tinted by how fast that community has grown since the last census.
- Grew 50%+
- 25%+
- 10%+
- Held
- Slipped
- Declined 10%+
- Not comparable
Every language, in order
Speakers at the 2021 Census, with the change since 2016. Broader ABS categories such as “Chinese, nfd” are counted in our totals but left out of this list, so the percentages can exceed the sum of the languages shown.
Fastest-growing among us
Gujarati
+138.1% since last census
We share this portrait because Armadale is, genuinely, not an “average” council. Services designed for the median Western Australia resident arrive here in the wrong language. This almanac exists so that nobody writing policy about us — federal, state, corporate or media — can say they did not know.
Gujarati grew 138.1% since the last census, to 562 speakers. A community growing at that rate is one whose translation needs are ahead of the last set of figures anyone commissioned.
Who we are, beyond language
Where we were born
34.3% of us were born overseas, across 128 countries.
- 01England7,206+1.2%
- 02India5,484+69.5%
- 03New Zealand2,877+1.1%
- 04Philippines2,071+59.6%
- 05South Africa1,520+16.3%
- 06Malaysia1,300+33.2%
- 07Sri Lanka787+56.8%
- 08Singapore744+23.0%
- 09Scotland681-6.5%
- 10China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)622+9.5%
What we believe
Reported affiliation in Armadale at the 2021 Census, with the change since 2016.
- 01No religion or secular beliefs38,665+45.0%
- 02Christianity37,294-3.5%
- 03Hinduism4,332+80.1%
- 04Islam2,692+77.0%
- 05Buddhism2,133+27.1%
- 06Judaism8-77.1%
Our suburbs
Our linguistic character changes street by street. Click through to any of our 17 suburbs for its own portrait: the languages spoken there, the communities calling it home.
- Piara WatersTop language — Punjabi45%6,711
- HarrisdaleTop language — Punjabi44%5,091
- HaynesTop language — Tagalog35%831
- HilbertTop language — Tagalog24%965
- Seville GroveTop language — Karen23%2,555
- Champion LakesTop language — Malayalam20%265
- Brookdale (WA)Top language — Tagalog15%430
- CamilloTop language — Karen14%625
- Armadale (WA)Top language — Malayalam11%1,410
- WungongTop language — Afrikaans11%25
- KelmscottTop language — Tamil10%1,084
- Mount NasuraTop language — Italian9%258
- ForrestdaleTop language — Italian8%77
- RoleystoneTop language — Afrikaans6%407
- KarragullenTop language — Italian6%28
- Mount RichonTop language — Afrikaans6%126
- BedfordaleTop language — Afrikaans4%133
- 17 suburbs in Armadale. Percentage is residents speaking a language other than English at home; the figure beneath it is how many people that is.
Where we are
Armadale shaded by the share of residents speaking a language other than English at home. Boundaries are ABS ASGS 2021. See every council on one map.
In context
- Armadale
- 22.6%
- Western Australia
- 17.3%
- Australia
- 21.3%
22.6% of Armadale residents speak a language other than English at home, against 17.3% for Western Australia and 21.3% nationally. Drawn from the 2021 Census.
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census of Population and Housing 2021, language used at home by Statistical Area Level 2, aggregated to Local Government Area. Growth compares 2021 against the 2016 Census.
How the headline share is counted. 22.6% is 21,021 residents as a share of all 92,987 of us. A further 5,044 did not state a language at all, and we do not count them as speaking one — counting every non-response as a non-English speaker would put this figure at 28.0%, which is a larger number and a weaker claim. Measured only across the residents who answered, the share is 23.9%. If you have seen a higher figure quoted for Armadale, it is almost certainly one of those two.
Two further caveats we would rather state than bury. Summing suburbs omits residents not allocated to one — no usual address, migratory and unincorporated areas — so national totals sit a little under the ABS published figures; the Armadale figures on this page are unaffected. And ranked language lists exclude ABS residual categories such as “Chinese, nfd”, which are not languages anyone can order a translation in; they remain inside the headline total.
Need this community reached in its own languages? Talk to us about translation in Armadale.