German
18 speakers
Used at home by fewer than one in 100 residents.
Irwin, Western Australia
Languages spoken in Irwin
English is the only language spoken at home by about 3,200 people in Irwin, according to the 2021 Census, and German is the most common of the others. Every language besides English has fewer speakers than one resident in 100. Irwin sits near the foot of the diversity index, at 461st.
- Residents
- 3,664
- Speak another language
- 53
- Languages at home
- 12
- Change since 2016
- 0.0%
Which languages other than English are spoken in Irwin?
These three top a list of small communities.
Vietnamese
7 speakers
The community has more than doubled since 2016.
French
4 speakers
Spoken at home by 0.1 per cent of residents.
Is Irwin typical of Australia as a whole?
Irwin's share is less than half the national share. In Western Australia, 114 councils rank above Irwin.
- Irwin
- 1.4%
- Australia
- 21.3%
- Western Australia
- 17.3%
Shares are calculated the same way for each area, so the bars compare directly.
How even is Irwin from suburb to suburb?
Suburb pages list every language counted in that suburb.
- IrwinLed by Afrikaans2%8
- ArrowsmithLed by Dutch2%6
- Port DenisonLed by German2%22
- DongaraLed by German1%17
- The larger figure is each suburb's share speaking a language other than English; the smaller is people. 4 suburbs listed.
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.
How the headline share is counted: 1.4% is residents who named a language other than English, as a share of everyone. Another 396 didn't answer the question. Counting them as speaking another language would give 12.3%; leaving them out of the population altogether gives 1.6%. Higher figures quoted elsewhere usually come from one of those.
Two caveats: summing suburbs leaves out residents with no usual address, so national totals land a little under ABS published figures, and ranked lists leave out broad ABS categories that don't name a language.
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