Vietnamese
165 speakers
Vietnamese is spoken by 165 of our residents at home, 3.2% of Carnarvon.
We are Carnarvon
11 per cent.
About 11 in every 100 Carnarvon residents speak a language other than English at home, across 41 languages.
- Our population
- 5,145
- Speak another language
- 578
- Languages at home
- 41
- Growth since last census
- −9.5%
578 of us — 11.2% — speak a language other than English at home, most often Vietnamese, Portuguese and Croatian. A share this size is easy to design around by accident, which is precisely how it gets designed out.
In Western Australia
#34
of 137 Western Australia councils for the share of residents speaking a language other than English at home. #152 of 540 nationally.
What makes our community ours
Portuguese
70 speakers
Portuguese is spoken by 70 of our residents at home, 1.4% of Carnarvon.
Croatian
46 speakers
Croatian is spoken by 46 of our residents at home, 0.9% of Carnarvon.
The languages of Carnarvon
41 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.
- 01165-22.5%
- 0270+45.8%
- 0346-2.1%
- 0438-15.6%
- 0533
- 0622+83.3%
- 0718
- 0816-20.0%
- 0914-44.0%
- 1012-7.7%
Why we publish this
11.2% of us
We share this portrait because a council below the Western Australia average is the one most likely to be planned for as though everybody here reads English. 578 of us do not, at home, and a service that reaches everyone except them has not reached everyone. This almanac exists so that the number is on the record before the decision is made.
Who we are, beyond language
Where we were born
15.8% of us were born overseas, across 40 countries.
- 01England164+0.6%
- 02Vietnam121-16.0%
- 03New Zealand84-15.2%
- 04Philippines48+29.7%
- 05Malaysia46+1433%
- 06Portugal45-2.2%
- 07Germany28+100%
- 08Croatia25-26.5%
- 09India25-13.8%
- 10Scotland21+40.0%
What we believe
Reported affiliation in Carnarvon at the 2021 Census, with the change since 2016.
- 01Christianity2,109-20.0%
- 02No religion or secular beliefs1,967+11.9%
- 03Buddhism103-29.0%
- 04Islam42+1300%
- 05Hinduism20-35.5%
- 06Judaism3
Our suburbs
Our linguistic character changes street by street. Click through to any of our 12 suburbs for its own portrait: the languages spoken there, the communities calling it home.
- North PlantationsTop language — Vietnamese47%174
- South PlantationsTop language — Vietnamese42%76
- Brown RangeTop language — Vietnamese18%27
- Greys PlainTop language — Martu Wangka12%16
- CarnarvonTop language — Bislama11%30
- MorgantownTop language — Portuguese10%72
- BrockmanTop language — Portuguese9%92
- Coral BayTop language — French5%12
- Kingsford (WA)Top language — Croatian5%12
- East CarnarvonTop language — Hindi4%34
- South CarnarvonTop language — Mandarin4%33
- Wooramel0%0
- 12 suburbs in Carnarvon. Percentage is residents speaking a language other than English at home; the figure beneath it is how many people that is.
Where we are
Carnarvon 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
- Carnarvon
- 11.2%
- Western Australia
- 17.3%
- Australia
- 21.3%
11.2% of Carnarvon 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. 11.2% is 578 residents as a share of all 5,145 of us. A further 904 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 28.8%, which is a larger number and a weaker claim. Measured only across the residents who answered, the share is 13.6%. If you have seen a higher figure quoted for Carnarvon, 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 Carnarvon 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 Carnarvon.