Morawa, Western Australia

Languages other than English in Morawa

Morawa is overwhelmingly English-speaking: at the 2021 Census, 21 people used another language at home, most often Spanish. The share in the City of Perth is at least twice Morawa's. It's a community that grew fast between the last two censuses.

Residents
660
Speak another language
21
Languages at home
7
Change since 2016
+40.0%

Which communities in Morawa speak another language at home?

Spanish leads a short list of small communities.

Spanish

4 speakers

Used at home by fewer than one in 100 residents.

Malayalam

4 speakers

The community has fallen by more than a quarter since 2016.

Swedish

4 speakers

Spoken at home by 0.6 per cent of residents.

Is Morawa typical of Western Australia?

Across Western Australia, the share speaking another language is more than double. Morawa sits in the lower half of Western Australia's councils, at 92nd of 137.

Morawa
3.2%
Western Australia
17.3%
City of Perth
33.5%

Residents speaking a language other than English at home, as a share of all residents.

The full diversity index, with Morawa highlighted.

How even is Morawa from suburb to suburb?

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ABS Census of Population and Housing, 2021: language used at home, by Statistical Area Level 2, rolled up to Local Government Area. Change is measured from 2016.

Blank answers matter here. 128 residents gave none, and they're left out of the 3.2%. Count them in and it's 22.6%; drop them from the base and it's 3.9%.

Figures for Morawa itself aren't affected by the small gap between summed suburbs and ABS national totals. Unnamed ABS categories are in every total and out of every ranked list.

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