Denmark, Western Australia

Languages other than English in Denmark

Only 164 people in Denmark speak a language other than English at home, the 2021 Census shows. German is the one heard most. Not one of them is spoken by as many as one in 100 people. The share for the City of Perth is more than twice as high as Denmark's.

Residents
6,224
Speak another language
164
Languages at home
25
Change since 2016
−16.8%

What's spoken in Denmark apart from English?

None of these reaches one in 100 residents on its own.

German

60 speakers

That's fewer than one in 100 residents.

Vietnamese

18 speakers

Its speaker count has grown by more than a quarter since 2016.

Mandarin

11 speakers

The community has grown by about three quarters since 2016.

Where does Denmark sit against Australia as a whole?

The national share is more than twice as high as Denmark's. Denmark is 86th of 137 across Western Australia.

Denmark
2.6%
Australia
21.3%
City of Perth
33.5%

Every figure leaves unanswered questions out of the count, so the areas compare like for like.

Compare Denmark with every council on the diversity index.

Where in Denmark are other languages most common?

Across 8 suburbs, Shadforth leads narrowly.

Every suburb here has a page of its own.

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.

The headline 2.6% counts only residents who named a language other than English. 582 people left the question blank; treat every blank as another language and the figure is 12.0%, while measuring only those who answered gives 2.9%.

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.

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