Exmouth, Western Australia

Languages other than English in Exmouth

Spanish is the most common language after English in Exmouth, though only one in 20 residents speak anything other than English at home, the 2021 Census found. Just one language is spoken by at least one in 100 people. Exmouth's share is less than half the share for Western Australia.

Residents
3,036
Speak another language
148
Languages at home
19
Change since 2016
+49.5%

What languages besides English do people speak in Exmouth?

Spanish, German and Tagalog have the most speakers.

Spanish

39 speakers

About 1.3 per cent of all residents.

German

17 speakers

Between the last two censuses it has fallen by more than a quarter.

Tagalog

10 speakers

It has fallen by more than a quarter since 2016.

Where does Exmouth sit against the City of Perth?

The share for the City of Perth is more than twice as high as Exmouth's. Exmouth is 57th among Western Australia councils.

Exmouth
4.9%
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.

Every council ranked, Exmouth included.

Where in Exmouth are other languages most common?

Open any suburb for its own language breakdown.

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.

Other sources sometimes quote 15.1% for Exmouth. That figure treats the 310 unanswered forms as another language. This page uses 4.9%, and 5.4% is the share among those who answered.

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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