Malay
241 speakers
Malay is spoken by 241 of our residents at home, 1.6% of Port Hedland.
We are Port Hedland
13 per cent.
About 13 in every 100 Port Hedland residents speak a language other than English at home, across 82 languages.
- Our population
- 15,381
- Speak another language
- 1,997
- Languages at home
- 82
- Growth since last census
- +16.5%
1,997 of us — 13.0% — speak a language other than English at home, most often Malay, Tagalog and Filipino. A share this size is easy to design around by accident, which is precisely how it gets designed out.
In Western Australia
#27
of 137 Western Australia councils for the share of residents speaking a language other than English at home. #140 of 540 nationally.
What makes our community ours
Tagalog
209 speakers
Tagalog is spoken by 209 of our residents at home, 1.4% of Port Hedland.
Filipino
142 speakers
Filipino is spoken by 142 of our residents at home, 0.9% of Port Hedland.
The languages of Port Hedland
82 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.
- 01241-3.2%
- 02209+7.7%
- 03142+22.4%
- 0495+58.3%
- 0586-10.4%
- 0684+265%
- 0783+22.1%
- 0868+7.9%
- 0960-25.9%
- 1051+96.2%
Fastest-growing among us
Tagalog
+7.7% since last census
We share this portrait because a council below the Western Australia average is the one most likely to be planned for as though everybody here reads English. 1,997 of us do not, at home, and a service that reaches everyone except them has not reached everyone. This almanac exists so that the number is on the record before the decision is made.
Tagalog grew 7.7% since the last census, to 209 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
18.4% of us were born overseas, across 57 countries.
- 01New Zealand808+1.1%
- 02Philippines454+26.5%
- 03England290-4.6%
- 04India204+75.9%
- 05South Africa193+4.9%
- 06Zimbabwe105+6.1%
- 07Thailand88+54.4%
- 08Indonesia87+77.6%
- 09China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)58+115%
- 10Scotland47+46.9%
What we believe
Reported affiliation in Port Hedland at the 2021 Census, with the change since 2016.
- 01No religion or secular beliefs6,877+41.6%
- 02Christianity5,155-15.3%
- 03Islam473+4.2%
- 04Buddhism203+25.3%
- 05Hinduism180+97.8%
- 06Judaism7+75.0%
Our suburbs
Our linguistic character changes street by street. Click through to any of our 4 suburbs for its own portrait: the languages spoken there, the communities calling it home.
- South HedlandTop language — Malay14%1,570
- PippingarraTop language — Nyangumarta12%38
- Port HedlandTop language — Thai10%383
- WedgefieldTop language — Filipino4%6
- 4 suburbs in Port Hedland. Percentage is residents speaking a language other than English at home; the figure beneath it is how many people that is.
Where we are
Port Hedland 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
- Port Hedland
- 13.0%
- Western Australia
- 17.3%
- Australia
- 21.3%
13.0% of Port Hedland 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. 13.0% is 1,997 residents as a share of all 15,381 of us. A further 2,512 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 15.5%. If you have seen a higher figure quoted for Port Hedland, 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 Port Hedland 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 Port Hedland.