Punjabi
565 speakers
Punjabi is spoken by 565 of our residents at home, 1.8% of Serpentine-Jarrahdale.
We are Serpentine-Jarrahdale
10 per cent.
10 in every 100 Serpentine-Jarrahdale residents speak a language other than English at home. 3,186 people, in 93 languages — small enough to be overlooked, large enough to be a community.
- Our population
- 31,954
- Speak another language
- 3,186
- Languages at home
- 93
- Growth since last census
- +49.9%
Most of us speak English at home. 3,186 of us do not, across 93 languages, most often Punjabi, Afrikaans and Shona. Small communities are the ones a mainstream service misses first and notices last — which is the whole reason to count them.
In Western Australia
#40
of 137 Western Australia councils for the share of residents speaking a language other than English at home. #163 of 540 nationally.
What makes our community ours
Afrikaans
233 speakers
Afrikaans is spoken by 233 of our residents at home, 0.7% of Serpentine-Jarrahdale.
Shona
144 speakers
Shona is spoken by 144 of our residents at home, 0.5% of Serpentine-Jarrahdale.
The languages of Serpentine-Jarrahdale
93 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.
Fastest-growing among us
Punjabi
+82.8% 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. 3,186 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.
Punjabi grew 82.8% since the last census, to 565 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
23.5% of us were born overseas, across 89 countries.
- 01England2,639+6.4%
- 02New Zealand1,090+18.0%
- 03India705+44.2%
- 04South Africa578+41.7%
- 05Philippines289+97.9%
- 06Scotland236+9.8%
- 07Zimbabwe223+28.9%
- 08Netherlands156-6.6%
- 09Malaysia99+8.8%
- 10Ireland98+46.3%
What we believe
Reported affiliation in Serpentine-Jarrahdale at the 2021 Census, with the change since 2016.
- 01No religion or secular beliefs15,957+59.7%
- 02Christianity12,227-6.0%
- 03Hinduism469+44.8%
- 04Islam405+74.6%
- 05Buddhism248-7.1%
- 06Judaism0-100%
Our suburbs
Our linguistic character changes street by street. Click through to any of our 13 suburbs for its own portrait: the languages spoken there, the communities calling it home.
- ByfordTop language — Punjabi14%2,595
- KeysbrookTop language — Italian11%37
- OldburyTop language — Indonesian10%31
- KarrakupTop language — Greek9%19
- Hopeland (WA)Top language — Afrikaans7%23
- WhitbyTop language — Shona7%62
- Darling DownsTop language — Italian7%107
- CardupTop language — Dutch5%62
- MardellaTop language — German5%16
- OakfordTop language — Italian5%132
- JarrahdaleTop language — Dutch4%42
- MundijongTop language — Afrikaans1%21
- Serpentine (WA)Top language — German1%39
- 13 suburbs in Serpentine-Jarrahdale. Percentage is residents speaking a language other than English at home; the figure beneath it is how many people that is.
Where we are
Serpentine-Jarrahdale 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
- Serpentine-Jarrahdale
- 10.0%
- Western Australia
- 17.3%
- Australia
- 21.3%
10.0% of Serpentine-Jarrahdale 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. 10.0% is 3,186 residents as a share of all 31,954 of us. A further 1,795 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 15.6%, which is a larger number and a weaker claim. Measured only across the residents who answered, the share is 10.6%. If you have seen a higher figure quoted for Serpentine-Jarrahdale, 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 Serpentine-Jarrahdale 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 Serpentine-Jarrahdale.