Donnybrook-Balingup, Western Australia

Languages spoken in Donnybrook-Balingup

The 2021 Census found about 260 people in Donnybrook-Balingup speaking a language other than English at home, a small community in which Italian is the largest group. On its own, no other language reaches one in 100. The share for the City of Perth is more than twice as high as Donnybrook-Balingup's.

Residents
6,122
Speak another language
257
Languages at home
29
Change since 2016
+31.8%

What's spoken in Donnybrook-Balingup apart from English?

Small as they are, Italian, Mandarin and Vietnamese are the largest.

Italian

58 speakers

That's fewer than one in 100 residents.

Mandarin

34 speakers

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

Vietnamese

18 speakers

The community has grown by more than a quarter since 2016.

How does Donnybrook-Balingup compare with Australia as a whole?

Nationally, a language other than English is at least twice as common. Within Western Australia, Donnybrook-Balingup ranks 66th of 137.

Donnybrook-Balingup
4.2%
Australia
21.3%
City of Perth
33.5%

Each bar uses the same count: residents who named another home language, over all residents.

Every council ranked, Donnybrook-Balingup included.

Which suburbs of Donnybrook-Balingup have the most speakers of other languages?

Across 8 suburbs, Donnybrook leads narrowly.

Open any suburb for its own language breakdown.

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.

Other sources sometimes quote 10.4% for Donnybrook-Balingup. That figure treats the 378 unanswered forms as another language. This page uses 4.2%, and 4.5% is the share among those who answered.

National totals here run slightly under ABS published figures, because summing suburbs misses people without a usual address. Broad ABS categories count in the totals but not in the ranked lists.

Reuse these figures under CC BY 4.0 with credit to LEXIGO Language Map.

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