We are Gosnells

35 per cent.

Nearly 35 in every 100 Gosnells residents speak a language other than English at home. It is among the highest shares of any council in Western Australia.

Our population
134,385
Speak another language
46,536
Languages at home
153
Growth since last census
+19.2%

One in 3 of us speaks a language other than English at home: 47k people, most often Mandarin, Punjabi and Arabic. That is not a fringe of the community. It is a standing share of every audience anyone here is trying to reach.

In Western Australia

#4

of 137 Western Australia councils for the share of residents speaking a language other than English at home. #57 of 540 nationally.

What makes our community ours

Mandarin

7,268 speakers

Mandarin is spoken by 7,268 of our residents at home, 5.4% of Gosnells.

Punjabi

3,471 speakers

Punjabi is spoken by 3,471 of our residents at home, 2.6% of Gosnells.

Arabic

2,379 speakers

Arabic is spoken by 2,379 of our residents at home, 1.8% of Gosnells.

The languages of Gosnells

153 languages carry the conversation at home. Every one of them is spoken here.

Each block below is scaled to the number of people who speak that language at home, and tinted by how fast that community has grown since the last census.

  • Grew 50%+
  • 25%+
  • 10%+
  • Held
  • Slipped
  • Declined 10%+
  • Not comparable
The 18 most spoken languages in Gosnells, covering 34,149 speakers. Area is speakers at the 2021 Census; tint is the change since 2016. Every figure is also in the table below.

Every language, in order

Speakers at the 2021 Census, with the change since 2016. Broader ABS categories such as “Chinese, nfd” are counted in our totals but left out of this list, so the percentages can exceed the sum of the languages shown.

  1. 01
    Mandarin
    7,268+0.8%
  2. 02
    Punjabi
    3,471+83.9%
  3. 03
    Arabic
    2,379+26.6%
  4. 04
    Cantonese
    2,175-1.7%
  5. 05
    Tamil
    2,070+23.7%
  6. 06
    Indonesian
    1,976+11.9%
  7. 07
    Tagalog
    1,914+17.8%
  8. 08
    Urdu
    1,843+89.0%
  9. 09
    Hazaraghi
    1,609+107%
  10. 10
    Malayalam
    1,393+20.2%

Fastest-growing among us

Hazaraghi

+106.8% since last census

We share this portrait because Gosnells is, genuinely, not an “average” council — the share here is 2.0 times the Western Australia figure. Services designed for the median Western Australia resident arrive here in the wrong language. This almanac exists so that nobody writing policy about us — federal, state, corporate or media — can say they did not know.

Hazaraghi grew 106.8% since the last census, to 1,609 speakers. A community growing at that rate is one whose translation needs are ahead of the last set of figures anyone commissioned.

Who we are, beyond language

Where we were born

42.6% of us were born overseas, across 145 countries.

  1. 01
    India
    8,165+29.1%
  2. 02
    England
    7,251-11.5%
  3. 03
    Malaysia
    4,577+5.3%
  4. 04
    Philippines
    3,796+27.2%
  5. 05
    China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)
    3,7130%
  6. 06
    New Zealand
    3,578-15.1%
  7. 07
    Indonesia
    1,986+19.6%
  8. 08
    Singapore
    1,969-3.3%
  9. 09
    Afghanistan
    1,957+41.2%
  10. 10
    South Africa
    1,855-4.4%

What we believe

Reported affiliation in Gosnells at the 2021 Census, with the change since 2016.

  1. 01
    Christianity
    52,811-11.8%
  2. 02
    No religion or secular beliefs
    44,700+25.7%
  3. 03
    Islam
    14,233+52.9%
  4. 04
    Hinduism
    5,960+25.3%
  5. 05
    Buddhism
    5,205+3.1%
  6. 06
    Judaism
    13+225%

Our suburbs

Our linguistic character changes street by street. Click through to any of our 11 suburbs for its own portrait: the languages spoken there, the communities calling it home.

Where we are

Gosnells shaded by the share of residents speaking a language other than English at home. Boundaries are ABS ASGS 2021. See every council on one map.

In context

Gosnells
34.6%
Western Australia
17.3%
Australia
21.3%

34.6% of Gosnells residents speak a language other than English at home, against 17.3% for Western Australia and 21.3% nationally. Drawn from the 2021 Census.

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.

How the headline share is counted. 34.6% is 46,536 residents as a share of all 134,385 of us. A further 8,086 did not state a language at all, and we do not count them as speaking one — counting every non-response as a non-English speaker would put this figure at 40.6%, which is a larger number and a weaker claim. Measured only across the residents who answered, the share is 36.8%. If you have seen a higher figure quoted for Gosnells, it is almost certainly one of those two.

Two further caveats we would rather state than bury. Summing suburbs omits residents not allocated to one — no usual address, migratory and unincorporated areas — so national totals sit a little under the ABS published figures; the Gosnells figures on this page are unaffected. And ranked language lists exclude ABS residual categories such as “Chinese, nfd”, which are not languages anyone can order a translation in; they remain inside the headline total.

Need this community reached in its own languages? Talk to us about translation in Gosnells.