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Parkwood, Canning

Languages spoken in Parkwood (WA)

The 2021 Census found Chinese spoken at home by about 1,000 people in Parkwood, well ahead of any other language. Tamil comes next. Western Australia has a lower share than Parkwood. In all, 50 languages are spoken in its homes.

Residents
5,917
Speak another language
31.8%-2.3%
Languages spoken
50
Born overseas
45.0%

How large is Parkwood's Chinese-speaking community?

Chinese at home

17%

Most of these speak Mandarin, with Cantonese next.

What's spoken in Parkwood besides Chinese?

Include First Nations languagesShowing multicultural languages
  1. 01
    Mandarin
    582-9.5%
  2. 02
    Cantonese
    339-6.4%
  3. 03
    Min Nan
    66-9.6%
  4. 04
    Tamil
    66-10.8%
  5. 05
    Korean
    65+22.6%
  6. 06
    Indonesian
    58+61.1%
  7. 07
    Arabic
    56-12.5%
  8. 08
    Malayalam
    54+108%
  9. 09
    Gujarati
    43+187%
  10. 10
    Punjabi
    39+25.8%

How does Parkwood compare with Australia as a whole?

The share speaking another language is 1.5 times the figure for Australia as a whole.

Parkwood (WA)
31.8%
Western Australia
17.3%
Australia
21.3%

Share of residents speaking a language other than English at home.

Where were Parkwood's residents born?

Among residents born overseas, Malaysia leads.

  1. 01
    Malaysia
    570+1.4%
  2. 02
    England
    421-1.2%
  3. 03
    India
    265+38.0%
  4. 04
    China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)
    237-16.5%
  5. 05
    New Zealand
    160+6.0%
  6. 06
    Singapore
    158-16.4%
  7. 07
    South Africa
    77-8.3%
  8. 08
    Indonesia
    67+34.0%
  9. 09
    Philippines
    60-9.1%
  10. 10
    Korea, Republic of (South)
    49+11.4%

What's Parkwood's religious mix?

  1. 01
    Christianity
    2,417-15.4%
  2. 02
    No religion or secular beliefs
    2,372+27.5%
  3. 03
    Buddhism
    447-6.1%
  4. 04
    Hinduism
    200+8.7%
  5. 05
    Islam
    183+8.3%

Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census of Population and Housing 2021, by suburb and locality. Growth compares 2021 against the 2016 Census.

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Parkwood (WA) is part of Canning, which has its own page with every suburb compared. For material in these languages, get a quote for translation.