Toodyay, Western Australia

Languages other than English in Toodyay

Toodyay is overwhelmingly English-speaking: at the 2021 Census, 108 people used another language at home, most often Italian. The top two are almost level. The share nationally is at least twice Toodyay's. The count of other-language speakers has eased since 2016.

Residents: 4,572
Speak another language: 108
Languages at home: 20
Change since 2016: −1.8%

Who speaks something other than English in Toodyay?

Italian leads a short list of small communities.

Italian

18 speakers

Between the last two censuses it has more than doubled.

Afrikaans

15 speakers

That's fewer than one in 100 residents.

Spanish

9 speakers

Its speaker count has more than tripled since 2016.

What sets Toodyay apart from Western Australia?

Across Western Australia, a language other than English is at least twice as common. In Western Australia, 97 councils rank above Toodyay.

Toodyay: 2.4%
Western Australia: 17.3%
Australia: 21.3%

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

See where Toodyay sits on the diversity index.

How even is Toodyay from suburb to suburb?

Coondle has the highest share of the 7 suburbs, but not by far.

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CoondleLed by Afrikaans4%25
JulimarLed by Afrikaans3%14
NunileLed by Spanish3%15
MorangupLed by Italian2%21
West ToodyayLed by Auslan2%11
ToodyayLed by Korean2%22
Dewars Pool0%0
The larger figure is each suburb's share speaking a language other than English; the smaller is people. 7 suburbs listed.

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.

Blank answers matter here. 529 residents gave none, and they're left out of the 2.4%. Count them in and it's 13.9%; drop them from the base and it's 2.7%.

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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