Dundas, Western Australia

Which languages are spoken in Dundas?

English is the only language spoken at home by about 500 people in Dundas, according to the 2021 Census, and Thai is the most common of the others. One language clears the one-in-100 mark. Dundas' share is less than half the share for the City of Perth.

Residents
673
Speak another language
30
Languages at home
7
Change since 2016
+42.9%

Which communities in Dundas speak another language at home?

The three biggest groups are below, with their speaker counts.

Thai

14 speakers

Between the last two censuses it has more than tripled.

Afrikaans

4 speakers

That's fewer than one in 100 residents.

Is Dundas typical of Western Australia?

Across Western Australia, a language other than English is at least twice as common. In Western Australia, 81 councils rank above Dundas.

Dundas
4.5%
Western Australia
17.3%
City of Perth
33.5%

Same method throughout, so the gap between the bars is the real gap.

See where Dundas sits on the diversity index.

Which parts of Dundas are most multilingual?

Suburb pages list every language counted in that suburb.

ABS Census of Population and Housing, 2021: language used at home, by Statistical Area Level 2, rolled up to Local Government Area. Change is measured from 2016.

Blank answers matter here. 141 residents gave none, and they're left out of the 4.5%. Count them in and it's 25.4%; drop them from the base and it's 5.6%.

Figures for Dundas itself aren't affected by the small gap between summed suburbs and ABS national totals. Unnamed ABS categories are in every total and out of every ranked list.

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