Afrikaans
15 speakers
The community has grown by more than a quarter since 2016.
Moora, Western Australia
Languages other than English in Moora
The 2021 Census found one in 35 residents in Moora speaking a language other than English at home, a small community in which Afrikaans is the largest group. Tagalog is close behind, within a fifth of the leader's total. The share for the City of Perth is more than twice as high as Moora's.
- Residents
- 2,268
- Speak another language
- 63
- Languages at home
- 12
- Change since 2016
- +3.3%
What's spoken in Moora apart from English?
Small as they are, Afrikaans, Tagalog and Mandarin are the largest.
How does Moora compare with Australia as a whole?
Nationally, a language other than English is at least twice as common. Moora is 84th of 137 across Western Australia.
- Moora
- 2.8%
- Australia
- 21.3%
- City of Perth
- 33.5%
Each bar uses the same count: residents who named another home language, over all residents.
Which parts of Moora are most multilingual?
Open any suburb for its own language breakdown.
- Moora (WA)Led by Tagalog3%55
- MilingLed by Afrikaans3%5
- WatherooLed by Wajarri2%3
- Berkshire Valley0%0
- 4 suburbs, ordered by the share speaking another language at home, with the head count underneath.
Figures come from the ABS Census of Population and Housing 2021 (language used at home), aggregated from Statistical Area Level 2 to Local Government Area, with 2016 for comparison.
Other sources sometimes quote 14.9% for Moora. That figure treats the 274 unanswered forms as another language. This page uses 2.8%, and 3.2% is the share among those who answered.
Language lists name languages only; residual ABS groups are in the totals. Summed-suburb national totals run a little low.
Reuse these figures under CC BY 4.0 with credit to LEXIGO Language Map.
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