We are Karratha

11 per cent.

About 11 in every 100 Karratha residents speak a language other than English at home, across 90 languages.

Our population
21,840
Speak another language
2,406
Languages at home
90
Growth since last census
−3.7%

2,406 of us — 11.0% — speak a language other than English at home, most often Yindjibarndi, Tagalog and Filipino. A share this size is easy to design around by accident, which is precisely how it gets designed out.

In Western Australia

#35

of 137 Western Australia councils for the share of residents speaking a language other than English at home. #154 of 540 nationally.

What makes our community ours

Yindjibarndi

306 speakers

Yindjibarndi is spoken by 306 of our residents at home, 1.4% of Karratha.

Tagalog

251 speakers

Tagalog is spoken by 251 of our residents at home, 1.1% of Karratha.

Filipino

154 speakers

Filipino is spoken by 154 of our residents at home, 0.7% of Karratha.

The languages of Karratha

90 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 Karratha, covering 1,696 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
    Yindjibarndi
    306+1.7%
  2. 02
    Tagalog
    251-7.4%
  3. 03
    Filipino
    154-27.0%
  4. 04
    Thai
    146+57.0%
  5. 05
    Mandarin
    128-30.1%
  6. 06
    Afrikaans
    100-25.9%
  7. 07
    Hindi
    94+11.9%
  8. 08
    Maori (New Zealand)
    66-7.0%
  9. 09
    Nepali
    58+152%
  10. 10
    Punjabi
    57+171%

Fastest-growing among us

Yindjibarndi

+1.7% since last census

We share this portrait because a council below the Western Australia average is the one most likely to be planned for as though everybody here reads English. 2,406 of us do not, at home, and a service that reaches everyone except them has not reached everyone. This almanac exists so that the number is on the record before the decision is made.

Yindjibarndi grew 1.7% since the last census, to 306 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

16.6% of us were born overseas, across 71 countries.

  1. 01
    New Zealand
    912-15.2%
  2. 02
    England
    558-9.3%
  3. 03
    Philippines
    469-9.1%
  4. 04
    India
    254+2.4%
  5. 05
    South Africa
    239-13.1%
  6. 06
    Thailand
    147+38.7%
  7. 07
    Scotland
    101-12.2%
  8. 08
    China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)
    86-33.8%
  9. 09
    Ireland
    74-18.7%
  10. 10
    Indonesia
    50-2.0%

What we believe

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

  1. 01
    No religion or secular beliefs
    10,438+37.3%
  2. 02
    Christianity
    6,427-33.1%
  3. 03
    Hinduism
    322+38.8%
  4. 04
    Buddhism
    313-6.3%
  5. 05
    Islam
    211+44.5%
  6. 06
    Judaism
    18+500%

Our suburbs

Our linguistic character changes street by street. Click through to any of our 13 suburbs for its own portrait: the languages spoken there, the communities calling it home.

Where we are

Karratha 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

Karratha
11.0%
Western Australia
17.3%
Australia
21.3%

11.0% of Karratha 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. 11.0% is 2,406 residents as a share of all 21,840 of us. A further 3,845 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 28.6%, which is a larger number and a weaker claim. Measured only across the residents who answered, the share is 13.4%. If you have seen a higher figure quoted for Karratha, 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 Karratha 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 Karratha.