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Waterford, South Perth

What Waterford speaks at home

The 2021 Census found Chinese spoken at home by about 470 people in Waterford, well ahead of any other language. South Perth has a lower share than Waterford. For the wider picture, South Perth has a page of its own.

Residents
2,412
Speak another language
38.2%+1.7%
Languages spoken
30
Born overseas
48.8%

How large is Waterford's Chinese-speaking community?

Chinese at home

19%

The census counts Mandarin, Cantonese and Hakka separately; together they make up the Chinese-speaking community.

What's spoken in Waterford besides Chinese?

Include First Nations languagesShowing multicultural languages
  1. 01
    Mandarin
    309+7.3%
  2. 02
    Cantonese
    128+0.8%
  3. 03
    Indonesian
    72-7.7%
  4. 04
    Urdu
    45+114%
  5. 05
    Arabic
    39+69.6%
  6. 06
    Vietnamese
    33+57.1%
  7. 07
    Italian
    27-28.9%
  8. 08
    Hindi
    25+8.7%
  9. 09
    Hakka
    24+140%
  10. 10
    Korean
    23-11.5%

Is Waterford more multilingual than Western Australia?

Western Australia has a lower share than Waterford.

Waterford (WA)
38.2%
South Perth
18.8%
Western Australia
17.3%

Share of residents speaking a language other than English at home.

Where were Waterford's residents born?

Overseas-born residents make up 49 per cent of residents, most often from Malaysia.

  1. 01
    Malaysia
    214+12.0%
  2. 02
    China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)
    136-12.3%
  3. 03
    England
    113+2.7%
  4. 04
    Singapore
    89-2.2%
  5. 05
    Indonesia
    84-6.7%
  6. 06
    India
    72+12.5%
  7. 07
    Hong Kong (SAR of China)
    44+37.5%
  8. 08
    Myanmar
    33+120%
  9. 09
    New Zealand
    27-20.6%
  10. 10
    Vietnam
    27-6.9%

What's Waterford's religious mix?

  1. 01
    Christianity
    1,171+2.5%
  2. 02
    No religion or secular beliefs
    755+30.6%
  3. 03
    Buddhism
    179-13.5%
  4. 04
    Islam
    119+38.4%
  5. 05
    Hinduism
    71+9.2%

Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census of Population and Housing 2021, by suburb and locality. Growth compares 2021 against the 2016 Census.

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Waterford (WA) is part of South Perth, which has its own page with every suburb compared. For material in these languages, get a quote for translation.