Malay
218 speakers
Malay is spoken by 218 of our residents at home, 5.5% of Katanning.
We are Katanning
19 per cent.
About 19 in every 100 Katanning residents speak a language other than English at home, across 33 languages.
- Our population
- 3,988
- Speak another language
- 742
- Languages at home
- 33
- Growth since last census
- +0.1%
742 of us — 18.6% — speak a language other than English at home, most often Malay, Karen and Burmese. A share this size is easy to design around by accident, which is precisely how it gets designed out.
In Western Australia
#20
of 137 Western Australia councils for the share of residents speaking a language other than English at home. #110 of 540 nationally.
What makes our community ours
Karen
185 speakers
Karen is spoken by 185 of our residents at home, 4.6% of Katanning.
Burmese
56 speakers
Burmese is spoken by 56 of our residents at home, 1.4% of Katanning.
The languages of Katanning
33 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
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.
Fastest-growing among us
Karen
+7.6% since last census
We share this portrait because Katanning is, genuinely, not an “average” council. Services designed for the median Western Australia resident arrive here in the wrong language. This almanac exists so that nobody writing policy about us — federal, state, corporate or media — can say they did not know.
Karen grew 7.6% since the last census, to 185 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
19.4% of us were born overseas, across 34 countries.
- 01Myanmar127-21.1%
- 02New Zealand122-12.9%
- 03England109-0.9%
- 04Thailand78+4.0%
- 05South Africa49+123%
- 06Vanuatu49
- 07Afghanistan30-60.0%
- 08Malaysia27+68.8%
- 09Philippines27+28.6%
- 10Singapore18+125%
What we believe
Reported affiliation in Katanning at the 2021 Census, with the change since 2016.
- 01Christianity1,698-12.5%
- 02No religion or secular beliefs1,449+35.4%
- 03Islam350-13.2%
- 04Buddhism76+15.2%
- 05Hinduism5-82.1%
Our suburbs
Our linguistic character changes street by street. Click through to any of our 2 suburbs for its own portrait: the languages spoken there, the communities calling it home.
- KatanningTop language — Malay21%738
- Coblinine1%4
- 2 suburbs in Katanning. Percentage is residents speaking a language other than English at home; the figure beneath it is how many people that is.
Where we are
Katanning 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
- Katanning
- 18.6%
- Western Australia
- 17.3%
- Australia
- 21.3%
18.6% of Katanning 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. 18.6% is 742 residents as a share of all 3,988 of us. A further 427 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 29.3%, which is a larger number and a weaker claim. Measured only across the residents who answered, the share is 20.8%. If you have seen a higher figure quoted for Katanning, 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 Katanning 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 Katanning.