Willetton, Canning

What Willetton speaks at home

At the 2021 Census, 20 per cent of residents in Willetton, a suburb of Canning, spoke Chinese at home. The next largest is Malayalam. Willetton is about level with Canning. Residents speak 74 languages between them. Residents born overseas most often come from Malaysia.

Residents
19,014
Speak another language
44.1%+23.6%
Languages spoken
74
Born overseas
50.6%

How many people in Willetton speak Chinese?

Chinese at home

20%

Mandarin is the larger variety here.

What's spoken in Willetton besides Chinese?

Include First Nations languagesShowing multicultural languages
  1. 01
    Mandarin
    2,738+28.9%
  2. 02
    Cantonese
    918+13.3%
  3. 03
    Malayalam
    581+45.6%
  4. 04
    Tamil
    520+73.3%
  5. 05
    Hindi
    330+8.2%
  6. 06
    Sinhalese
    312+10.6%
  7. 07
    Korean
    310-7.2%
  8. 08
    Indonesian
    238+7.7%
  9. 09
    Bengali
    224+8.7%
  10. 10
    Telugu
    204+64.5%

Where does Willetton sit against Western Australia?

Western Australia has a lower share than Willetton.

Willetton
44.1%
Canning
41.8%
Western Australia
17.3%

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

Where were Willetton's residents born?

Malaysia is the most common overseas birthplace.

  1. 01
    Malaysia
    1,637+8.9%
  2. 02
    India
    1,582+32.2%
  3. 03
    China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)
    1,368+29.5%
  4. 04
    England
    899-14.4%
  5. 05
    Singapore
    538+2.1%
  6. 06
    Sri Lanka
    366+6.4%
  7. 07
    New Zealand
    307-4.7%
  8. 08
    Korea, Republic of (South)
    259-11.3%
  9. 09
    South Africa
    249+3.3%
  10. 10
    Indonesia
    246+9.8%

What's Willetton's religious mix?

  1. 01
    Christianity
    7,627-10.4%
  2. 02
    No religion or secular beliefs
    6,973+27.3%
  3. 03
    Hinduism
    1,591+47.6%
  4. 04
    Buddhism
    1,223+5.3%
  5. 05
    Islam
    831+36.0%
  6. 06
    Judaism
    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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Willetton is part of Canning, which has its own page with every suburb compared. For material in these languages, get a quote for translation.