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We are Dardanup

We are Dardanup.

Home to one of the larger Afrikaans-speaking communities in Western Australia, and 49 other language communities besides.

Our population
14,553
Speak another language
1,612
Languages at home
15+
Growth since last census
+76.8%
50 languages are spoken at home in Dardanup. Afrikaans leads (90 speakers), with Malay close behind (55). 11 per cent of us speak a language other than English at home. That is the measure of a community that has not left its languages behind.
speak Afrikaans at home
90
Our largest community language, Afrikaans, is spoken by 0.6% of Dardanup residents at home.
What makes our community ours
Afrikaans
90 speakers

90 speakers, 0.6% of Dardanup. +58% since 2021.

Malay
55 speakers

55 speakers, 0.4% of Dardanup. -13% since 2021.

Tagalog
50 speakers

50 speakers, 0.3% of Dardanup. +138% since 2021.

The languages of Dardanup

50 languages carry the conversation at home. Every one of them is spoken here.

Each block below is scaled to the number of people who speak that language at home, and tinted by how fast that community has grown since the last census.

Afrikaans
90 · +57.9%
Malay
55 · -12.7%
Tagalog
50 · +138.1%
Mandarin
50 · +72.4%
Malayalam
32 · +28.0%
Shona
29 · +11.5%
Punjabi
29 · +16.0%
Akan
27 · +145.5%
Spanish
26 · +52.9%
Korean
25 · -19.4%
Italian
24 · -35.1%
Vietnamese
23 · +666.7%
Thai
21 · +90.9%
Polish
21 · +320.0%
Maori (New Zealand)
20 · +53.8%
GROWTH ≥ 50%
≥ 20%
≥ 5%
≥ 0%
≥ -10%
DECLINING
  1. 01
    Afrikaans90 · 0.6%
    57.9%
  2. 02
    Malay55 · 0.4%
    12.7%
  3. 03
    Tagalog50 · 0.3%
    138.1%
  4. 04
    Mandarin50 · 0.3%
    72.4%
  5. 05
    Malayalam32 · 0.2%
    28.0%
  6. 06
    Shona29 · 0.2%
    11.5%
  7. 07
    Punjabi29 · 0.2%
    16.0%
  8. 08
    Akan27 · 0.2%
    145.5%
  9. 09
    Spanish26 · 0.2%
    52.9%
  10. 10
    Korean25 · 0.2%
    19.4%
  11. 11
    Italian24 · 0.2%
    35.1%
  12. 12
    Vietnamese23 · 0.2%
    666.7%
Fastest-growing among us
Vietnamese
+666.7% since last census

We publish this so our residents can see themselves counted, and so the agencies, funders and neighbours who serve us can see who we actually serve. Language access is not a translation line-item in our budget. It is how an emergency notice reaches a grandparent, how an enrolment form is understood, and how a health campaign actually lands in the suburbs that make up our council.

Our suburbs
Where we are
In context
Dardanup
11.1%
Western Australia
23.5%
Australia
27.3%

11.1% of Dardanup residents speak a language other than English at home, against 23.5% for Western Australia and 27.3% nationally. Drawn from the 2021 census.