Afrikaans
7 speakers
The community has more than doubled since 2016.
Chapman Valley, Western Australia
Languages spoken in Chapman Valley
The 2021 Census found one in 70 residents in Chapman Valley speaking a language other than English at home, a small community in which Afrikaans is the largest group. German is close behind, within a fifth of the leader's total. It's in the bottom 100 of 542 local government areas for language diversity.
- Residents
- 1,383
- Speak another language
- 20
- Languages at home
- 5
- Change since 2016
- −28.6%
What's spoken in Chapman Valley apart from English?
Small as they are, Afrikaans, German and Italian are the largest.
How does Chapman Valley compare with the City of Perth?
The share for the City of Perth is more than twice as high as Chapman Valley's. In the Western Australia table, Chapman Valley is 118th of 137.
- Chapman Valley
- 1.4%
- City of Perth
- 33.5%
- Western Australia
- 17.3%
Every figure leaves unanswered questions out of the count, so the areas compare like for like.
Which suburbs of Chapman Valley have the most speakers of other languages?
Every suburb here has a page of its own.
- NabawaLed by Afrikaans2%7
- White PeakLed by Afrikaans1%9
- HowatharraLed by German1%4
- 3 suburbs, ordered by the share speaking another language at home, with the head count underneath.
Figures come from the ABS Census of Population and Housing 2021 (language used at home), aggregated from Statistical Area Level 2 to Local Government Area, with 2016 for comparison.
1.4% is the share of all residents who reported a language other than English. The 198 who didn't answer aren't counted as speakers. If they were, the share would be 15.8%; among respondents alone it's 1.7%.
Ranked lists skip broad categories such as "Chinese, nfd", which stay in the totals. National figures are summed from suburbs and sit a touch under the ABS release.
Reuse these figures under CC BY 4.0 with credit to LEXIGO Language Map.
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