Mount Magnet, Western Australia

Languages other than English in Mount Magnet

Only one in 50 residents in Mount Magnet speak a language other than English at home, the 2021 Census shows. Filipino is the one heard most. Spanish is barely behind. The share across Western Australia is at least twice Mount Magnet's.

Residents
640
Speak another language
13
Languages at home
5
Change since 2016
+18.2%

What languages besides English do people speak in Mount Magnet?

None of these reaches one in 100 residents on its own.

Filipino

5 speakers

About 0.8 per cent of all residents.

Spanish

5 speakers

Spoken at home by 0.8 per cent of residents.

Tagalog

3 speakers

It has fallen by more than a quarter since 2016.

Where does Mount Magnet sit against the City of Perth?

The share for the City of Perth is more than twice as high as Mount Magnet's. Among Western Australia councils, Mount Magnet ranks 104th.

Mount Magnet
2.0%
City of Perth
33.5%
Western Australia
17.3%

Every figure leaves unanswered questions out of the count, so the areas compare like for like.

Compare Mount Magnet with every council on the diversity index.

Which suburbs of Mount Magnet have the most speakers of other languages?

Every suburb here has a page of its own.

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.

The headline 2.0% counts only residents who named a language other than English. 316 people left the question blank; treat every blank as another language and the figure is 51.4%, while measuring only those who answered gives 4.0%.

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.

Reaching these communities in their own languages? Talk to us about translation for Mount Magnet.