Italian
115 speakers
Spoken at home by 2.7 per cent of residents.
Waroona, Western Australia
Languages spoken in Waroona
Most of Waroona speaks English at home, but 5.1 per cent of residents don't, the 2021 Census shows, and Italian leads among them. The one-in-100 mark is passed by only one language. The share for Western Australia is more than twice as high as Waroona's.
- Residents
- 4,205
- Speak another language
- 214
- Languages at home
- 16
- Change since 2016
- +2.4%
Which languages other than English are spoken most in Waroona?
After English, Italian comes first.
What are Waroona's five largest language communities?
Change since 2016 has been gradual.
The largest five communities, beside their change on the previous census.
How big is Waroona's multilingual community next to Australia as a whole?
The share nationally is at least twice Waroona's. That puts Waroona in the upper half of Western Australia's councils.
- Waroona
- 5.1%
- Australia
- 21.3%
- Western Australia
- 17.3%
Same method throughout, so the gap between the bars is the real gap.
Where in Waroona is a language other than English most common?
Pick a suburb to see its languages in full.
- HamelLed by Italian8%22
- WaroonaLed by Italian6%180
- Lake CliftonLed by German2%9
- Preston BeachLed by Italian1%3
- Each percentage is the share of a suburb speaking a language other than English at home, over the number of people. 4 suburbs in all.
What do birthplace and religion add in Waroona?
The largest group born overseas comes from England.
Country of birth
16.6% born overseas, across 21 countries.
- 01England306+19.5%
- 02New Zealand117+15.8%
- 03Italy600%
- 04Philippines51+54.5%
- 05Scotland35-12.5%
- 06South Africa26+4.0%
- 07Germany22+83.3%
- 08Zimbabwe18+125%
- 09Fiji14
- 10Netherlands8-50.0%
Religious affiliation
Reported affiliation, with the change since 2016.
- 01Christianity1,943-15.0%
- 02No religion or secular beliefs1,853+49.6%
- 03Buddhism17-41.4%
- 04Islam5-28.6%
- 05Hinduism3
Data: ABS Census of Population and Housing 2021, language used at home, summed from Statistical Area Level 2 to council. Changes are against the 2016 Census.
How the headline share is counted: 5.1% is residents who named a language other than English, as a share of everyone. Another 348 didn't answer the question. Counting them as speaking another language would give 13.4%; leaving them out of the population altogether gives 5.5%. Higher figures quoted elsewhere usually come from one of those.
Figures for Waroona itself aren't affected by the small gap between summed suburbs and ABS national totals. Unnamed ABS categories are in every total and out of every ranked list.
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