Mandarin
10 speakers
It has more than doubled since 2016.
Perenjori, Western Australia
The 2021 Census found 21 people in Perenjori speaking a language other than English at home, a small community in which Mandarin is the largest group. Most other languages here have fewer than one speaker per 100 residents. Nationally, the share speaking another language is more than double.
Mandarin, Estonian and Thai have the most speakers.
In the City of Perth, a language other than English is at least twice as common. In the Western Australia table, Perenjori is 74th of 137.
Every figure leaves unanswered questions out of the count, so the areas compare like for like.
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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.
Other sources sometimes quote 34.7% for Perenjori. That figure treats the 193 unanswered forms as another language. This page uses 3.4%, and 5.0% 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.
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