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Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Western Australia

The languages of Kalgoorlie-Boulder beyond English

Tagalog is the most common language after English in Kalgoorlie-Boulder, where 11 per cent of residents speak something else at home, according to the 2021 Census. The top two are almost level. The share in the City of Perth is at least twice Kalgoorlie-Boulder's.

Residents
28,969
Speak another language
3,318
Languages at home
96
Change since 2016
+10.1%

Which languages other than English are spoken most in Kalgoorlie-Boulder?

After English, Tagalog comes first.

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Tagalog

326 speakers

Spoken at home by 1.1 per cent of residents.

Afrikaans

315 speakers

About 1.1 per cent of all residents.

Filipino

296 speakers

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

What are Kalgoorlie-Boulder's five largest language communities?

Change since 2016 has been gradual.

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

  1. 01
    Tagalog
    326+8.7%
  2. 02
    Afrikaans
    315-16.7%
  3. 03
    Filipino
    296+34.5%
  4. 04
    Mandarin
    2030%
  5. 05
    Shona
    170+24.1%

How big is Kalgoorlie-Boulder's multilingual community next to Western Australia?

Kalgoorlie-Boulder's share is under the share for Western Australia, though not by much. In Western Australia, 24 councils rank higher.

Kalgoorlie-Boulder
11.5%
Western Australia
17.3%
City of Perth
33.5%

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

See where Kalgoorlie-Boulder sits on the diversity index.

How does the share change across Kalgoorlie-Boulder's suburbs?

Kalgoorlie tops the list, but the spread across 16 suburbs is narrow.

Suburb pages list every language counted in that suburb.

Where were Kalgoorlie-Boulder's residents born?

The largest group born overseas comes from New Zealand.

Country of birth

22.3% born overseas, across 82 countries.

  1. 01
    New Zealand
    2,057-15.0%
  2. 02
    Philippines
    776+26.0%
  3. 03
    England
    660-11.3%
  4. 04
    South Africa
    531-8.1%
  5. 05
    India
    365-2.1%
  6. 06
    Zimbabwe
    309+10.4%
  7. 07
    Papua New Guinea
    169+15.0%
  8. 08
    Thailand
    164+39.0%
  9. 09
    China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)
    138-19.8%
  10. 10
    Scotland
    93-30.6%

Religious affiliation

Reported affiliation, with the change since 2016.

  1. 01
    No religion or secular beliefs
    13,132+28.5%
  2. 02
    Christianity
    11,374-24.2%
  3. 03
    Hinduism
    369+10.1%
  4. 04
    Buddhism
    327+27.2%
  5. 05
    Islam
    234+25.8%

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: 11.5% is residents who named a language other than English, as a share of everyone. Another 3,299 didn't answer the question. Counting them as speaking another language would give 22.8%; leaving them out of the population altogether gives 12.9%. Higher figures quoted elsewhere usually come from one of those.

People with no usual address fall outside any suburb, which is why the national figure here is a fraction under the ABS one. The council figures aren't affected.

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