Dayton, Swan

Languages spoken in Dayton

The 2021 Census counted 49 per cent of residents in Dayton speaking another language at home, across 63 languages led by Punjabi. The next largest is Tagalog. Dayton's share is above Australia as a whole, at more than twice the rate.

Residents
5,497
Speak another language
49.1%+114%
Languages spoken
63
Born overseas
48.3%

What are Dayton's most spoken languages?

Include First Nations languagesShowing multicultural languages
  1. 01
    Punjabi
    553+167%
  2. 02
    Tagalog
    348+172%
  3. 03
    Gujarati
    204+85.5%
  4. 04
    Hindi
    176+112%
  5. 05
    Filipino
    169+231%
  6. 06
    Hazaraghi
    94+109%
  7. 07
    Vietnamese
    90+173%
  8. 08
    Arabic
    56+47.4%
  9. 09
    Shona
    49+75.0%
  10. 10
    Tamil
    49+113%

How spread out are Dayton's languages?

Punjabi leads with one in ten residents. In all, 8 languages each reach at least one resident in 100.

Where were Dayton's residents born?

Overseas-born residents make up about 2,700 people, most often from India.

  1. 01
    India
    803+113%
  2. 02
    Philippines
    557+184%
  3. 03
    New Zealand
    158+61.2%
  4. 04
    England
    116+18.4%
  5. 05
    Mauritius
    97+86.5%
  6. 06
    Kenya
    85+97.7%
  7. 07
    Afghanistan
    72+84.6%
  8. 08
    South Africa
    72+89.5%
  9. 09
    Zimbabwe
    65+66.7%
  10. 10
    Vietnam
    55+104%

Where does Dayton sit against Western Australia?

The share speaking another language is about two and a half times the figure for Western Australia.

Dayton
49.1%
Australia
21.3%
Western Australia
17.3%

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

What's Dayton's religious mix?

  1. 01
    Christianity
    2,010+69.5%
  2. 02
    No religion or secular beliefs
    1,524+142%
  3. 03
    Hinduism
    640+117%
  4. 04
    Islam
    362+119%
  5. 05
    Buddhism
    159+89.3%
  6. 06
    Judaism
    5

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

Reuse these figures under CC BY 4.0 with credit to LEXIGO Language Map.

Dayton is part of Swan, which has its own page with every suburb compared. For material in these languages, get a quote for translation.