Wagin, Western Australia

Languages other than English in Wagin

The 2021 Census found 56 people in Wagin speaking a language other than English at home, a small community in which Filipino is the largest group. Tagalog is close behind, within a fifth of the leader's total. Nationally, a language other than English is at least twice as common.

Residents
1,756
Speak another language
56
Languages at home
10
Change since 2016
+250.0%

What languages besides English do people speak in Wagin?

None of these reaches one in 100 residents on its own.

Filipino

16 speakers

That's fewer than one in 100 residents.

Tagalog

14 speakers

Used at home by fewer than one in 100 residents.

How does Wagin compare with the City of Perth?

In the City of Perth, the share speaking another language is more than double. Among Western Australia councils, Wagin ranks 81st.

Wagin
3.2%
City of Perth
33.5%
Australia
21.3%

Share of residents speaking a language other than English at home, by the same method for every area.

Every council ranked, Wagin included.

Which suburbs of Wagin have the most speakers of other languages?

Open any suburb for its own language breakdown.

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.

Other sources sometimes quote 14.3% for Wagin. That figure treats the 195 unanswered forms as another language. This page uses 3.2%, and 3.6% is the share among those who answered.

National totals here run slightly under ABS published figures, because summing suburbs misses people without a usual address. Broad ABS categories count in the totals but not in the ranked lists.

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

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