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Yilgarn, Western Australia

Which languages are spoken in Yilgarn?

Only 48 people in Yilgarn speak a language other than English at home, the 2021 Census shows. Tagalog is the one heard most. Only a small margin separates Filipino from the leader. Yilgarn's share is well under the share for Western Australia.

Residents
1,141
Speak another language
48
Languages at home
9
Change since 2016
+128.6%

Which languages are heard at home in Yilgarn?

Tagalog, Filipino and Mandarin have the most speakers.

Tagalog

12 speakers

It has more than doubled since 2016.

Filipino

10 speakers

Its speaker count has more than doubled since 2016.

Mandarin

6 speakers

About 0.5 per cent of all residents.

How does Yilgarn compare with the City of Perth?

In the City of Perth, the share speaking another language is more than double. Among 137 councils in Western Australia, Yilgarn is 64th.

Yilgarn
4.2%
City of Perth
33.5%
Western Australia
17.3%

Every figure leaves unanswered questions out of the count, so the areas compare like for like.

Every council ranked, Yilgarn included.

How even is Yilgarn from suburb to suburb?

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.

4.2% is the share of all residents who reported a language other than English. The 211 who didn't answer aren't counted as speakers. If they were, the share would be 22.7%; among respondents alone it's 5.2%.

Ranked lists skip broad categories such as "Chinese, nfd", which stay in the totals. National figures are summed from suburbs and sit a touch under the ABS release.

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

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