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Greater Geraldton, Western Australia

Languages spoken in Greater Geraldton

Afrikaans is the most common language after English in Greater Geraldton, where 6.5 per cent of residents speak something else at home, according to the 2021 Census. Malay runs a close second. Across Western Australia, the share speaking another language is more than double.

Residents
39,192
Speak another language
2,533
Languages at home
74
Change since 2016
+3.8%

Which languages other than English are spoken most in Greater Geraldton?

Afrikaans leads a short list of small communities.

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Afrikaans

286 speakers

Spoken at home by 0.7 per cent of residents.

Malay

281 speakers

About 0.7 per cent of all residents.

Tagalog

199 speakers

Used at home by fewer than one in 100 residents.

What are Greater Geraldton's five largest language communities?

Vietnamese has grown by more than half since 2016.

The largest five communities, beside their change on the previous census.

  1. 01
    Afrikaans
    286-5.0%
  2. 02
    Malay
    281-3.1%
  3. 03
    Tagalog
    199-8.3%
  4. 04
    Filipino
    135-24.6%
  5. 05
    Vietnamese
    134+54.0%

How big is Greater Geraldton's multilingual community next to Australia as a whole?

Greater Geraldton's share is less than half the national share. Greater Geraldton ranks 45th in Western Australia, in the top half.

Greater Geraldton
6.5%
Australia
21.3%
Western Australia
17.3%

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

The full diversity index, with Greater Geraldton highlighted.

How does the share change across Greater Geraldton's suburbs?

Wandina tops the list, but the spread across 32 suburbs is narrow.

Each suburb links to its own page, with the languages spoken there.

Where were Greater Geraldton's residents born?

The largest group born overseas comes from England.

Country of birth

12.5% born overseas, across 76 countries.

  1. 01
    England
    1,466-7.7%
  2. 02
    New Zealand
    698-5.5%
  3. 03
    South Africa
    474-1.5%
  4. 04
    Philippines
    472-0.8%
  5. 05
    India
    212+7.1%
  6. 06
    Scotland
    142-21.1%
  7. 07
    Thailand
    118+59.5%
  8. 08
    Vietnam
    117+98.3%
  9. 09
    Germany
    104-25.2%
  10. 10
    Italy
    98-31.0%

Religious affiliation

Reported affiliation, with the change since 2016.

  1. 01
    Christianity
    17,721-17.7%
  2. 02
    No religion or secular beliefs
    16,387+40.2%
  3. 03
    Islam
    563+5.8%
  4. 04
    Buddhism
    319-1.2%
  5. 05
    Hinduism
    150+5.6%
  6. 06
    Judaism
    4-55.6%

Data: ABS Census of Population and Housing 2021, language used at home, summed from Statistical Area Level 2 to council. Changes are against the 2016 Census.

How the headline share is counted: 6.5% is residents who named a language other than English, as a share of everyone. Another 3,916 didn't answer the question. Counting them as speaking another language would give 16.5%; leaving them out of the population altogether gives 7.2%. Higher figures quoted elsewhere usually come from one of those.

Figures for Greater Geraldton 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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