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Swan, Western Australia

What Swan speaks at home

Vietnamese, Punjabi and Tagalog are the main languages after English in Swan, where the 2021 Census counted about 33,000 people speaking one at home. Over 100 languages clear ten speakers, 104 in all. Swan's share trails the share for the City of Perth.

Residents
147,242
Speak another language
32,766
Languages at home
152
Change since 2016
+30.1%

Which three languages are most common in Swan?

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Vietnamese

3,056 speakers

Used at home by one in 50 residents.

Punjabi

3,039 speakers

The community has more than doubled since 2016.

Tagalog

1,946 speakers

Its speaker count has grown by more than a quarter since 2016.

How does Swan compare with Western Australia?

Western Australia comes in under Swan's share. Only eight councils in Western Australia rank higher.

Swan
22.3%
Western Australia
17.3%
City of Perth
33.5%

Same method throughout, so the gap between the bars is the real gap.

Swan's place on the diversity index.

Which languages lead in Swan, and how have they changed?

Speakers at home, with the change since 2016. Broad ABS categories such as "Chinese, nfd" count towards the totals but aren't listed, so the shares can add up to more than the languages shown.

  1. 01
    Vietnamese
    3,056+8.9%
  2. 02
    Punjabi
    3,039+137%
  3. 03
    Tagalog
    1,946+49.9%
  4. 04
    Arabic
    1,864+33.9%
  5. 05
    Gujarati
    1,340+66.9%
  6. 06
    Mandarin
    1,296+7.9%
  7. 07
    Filipino
    1,144+44.3%
  8. 08
    Hindi
    1,066+23.4%
  9. 09
    Italian
    1,043-19.8%
  10. 10
    Afrikaans
    852+7.3%

How do Swan's languages compare in size?

  • Grew 50%+
  • 25%+
  • 10%+
  • Held
  • Slipped
  • Declined 10%+
  • Not comparable
The 18 most spoken languages in Swan, covering 21,187 speakers. Area is speakers at home; tint is the change since 2016. Every figure is also in the table below.
  • Grew 50%+
  • 25%+
  • 10%+
  • Held
  • Slipped
  • Declined 10%+
  • Not comparable
The 18 most spoken languages in Swan, covering 21,187 speakers. Area is speakers at home; tint is the change since 2016. Every figure is also in the table below.

Which community in Swan grew most since 2016?

Fastest-growing language

Punjabi

+137.4% since 2016

Punjabi has more than doubled since 2016, to about 3,000 speakers.

How do Swan's suburbs compare?

Suburbs differ a lot, from Dayton at the top to Upper Swan at the bottom.

Pick a suburb to see its languages in full.

What do birthplace and religion say about Swan?

After Australia, most residents born overseas came from England.

Country of birth

31.8% born overseas, across 149 countries.

  1. 01
    England
    8,521+3.2%
  2. 02
    India
    5,948+44.9%
  3. 03
    New Zealand
    5,362+3.6%
  4. 04
    Philippines
    3,680+44.9%
  5. 05
    Vietnam
    2,248+14.3%
  6. 06
    South Africa
    2,073+8.9%
  7. 07
    Scotland
    1,170+0.8%
  8. 08
    Malaysia
    1,048+2.0%
  9. 09
    Zimbabwe
    983+20.8%
  10. 10
    Myanmar
    970+29.5%

Religious affiliation

Reported affiliation, with the change since 2016.

  1. 01
    Christianity
    61,628-4.2%
  2. 02
    No religion or secular beliefs
    59,970+49.3%
  3. 03
    Islam
    5,977+51.7%
  4. 04
    Hinduism
    4,629+65.6%
  5. 05
    Buddhism
    3,726+4.5%
  6. 06
    Judaism
    133+13.7%

How does Swan look on the map?

Darker shading means more residents speaking a multicultural languageany language other than English at home. ABS ASGS 2021 boundaries. Open the national map.

ABS Census of Population and Housing, 2021: language used at home, by Statistical Area Level 2, rolled up to Local Government Area. Change is measured from 2016.

A note on method: 7,616 residents didn't state a language, and this page doesn't count them as speaking one. That's why 22.3% sits below the 27.4% you'd get by counting every blank, and below 23.5% measured across respondents only.

Two caveats: summing suburbs leaves out residents with no usual address, so national totals land a little under ABS published figures, and ranked lists leave out broad ABS categories that don't name a language.

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