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Kalamunda, Western Australia

The languages of Kalamunda beyond English

The 2021 Census counted about 6,700 people in Kalamunda using a language other than English at home, and Mandarin tops that list. Only a small margin separates Italian from the leader. In the City of Perth, a language other than English is at least twice as common.

Residents
58,049
Speak another language
6,674
Languages at home
105
Change since 2016
+12.8%

What are the three biggest languages after English in Kalamunda?

Mandarin, Italian and Tagalog are the three largest.

Mandarin

596 speakers

That's one in 100 residents.

Italian

553 speakers

Used at home by fewer than one in 100 residents.

Tagalog

359 speakers

About 0.6 per cent of all residents.

Which five languages lead in Kalamunda, and how have they changed?

Of these, Hazaraghi has grown by about three quarters since 2016.

Five rows to start: the languages with the most speakers, and how each has changed since 2016.

  1. 01
    Mandarin
    596+18.5%
  2. 02
    Italian
    553-18.1%
  3. 03
    Tagalog
    359+11.5%
  4. 04
    Malayalam
    309+8.8%
  5. 05
    Hazaraghi
    287+81.6%

Where does Kalamunda sit against Australia as a whole?

Kalamunda is a little under Australia as a whole. Kalamunda is 22nd among Western Australia councils.

Kalamunda
11.5%
Australia
21.3%
City of Perth
33.5%

Each bar uses the same count: residents who named another home language, over all residents.

Every council ranked, Kalamunda included.

Which suburbs of Kalamunda have the largest multilingual communities?

Wattle Grove is highest, at nearly two in five residents; Bickley is lowest.

Open any suburb for its own language breakdown.

Where were Kalamunda's residents born?

England is the most common overseas birthplace.

Country of birth

26.5% born overseas, across 107 countries.

  1. 01
    England
    4,963-4.2%
  2. 02
    New Zealand
    1,958-10.9%
  3. 03
    India
    1,185+19.6%
  4. 04
    Philippines
    714+7.7%
  5. 05
    South Africa
    687+5.4%
  6. 06
    Scotland
    513-15.6%
  7. 07
    Ireland
    415+19.9%
  8. 08
    Malaysia
    387+4.3%
  9. 09
    Italy
    375-10.1%
  10. 10
    Zimbabwe
    340+25.0%

Religious affiliation

Reported affiliation, with the change since 2016.

  1. 01
    No religion or secular beliefs
    26,203+37.3%
  2. 02
    Christianity
    25,679-16.0%
  3. 03
    Islam
    1,230+31.0%
  4. 04
    Hinduism
    911+26.0%
  5. 05
    Buddhism
    657-6.1%
  6. 06
    Judaism
    12-66.7%

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.

The headline 11.5% counts only residents who named a language other than English. 2,498 people left the question blank; treat every blank as another language and the figure is 15.8%, while measuring only those who answered gives 12.0%.

National totals here run slightly under ABS published figures, because summing suburbs misses people without a usual address. Broad ABS categories count in the totals but not in the ranked lists.

Reuse these figures under CC BY 4.0 with credit to LEXIGO Language Map.

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