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We are Denmark

We are Denmark.

Home to one of the larger German-speaking communities in Western Australia, and 16 other language communities besides.

Our population
6,224
Speak another language
746
Languages at home
15+
Growth since last census
-4.4%
17 languages are spoken at home in Denmark. German leads (60 speakers), with Vietnamese close behind (18). 12 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 German at home
60
Our largest community language, German, is spoken by 1.0% of Denmark residents at home.
What makes our community ours
German
60 speakers

60 speakers, 1.0% of Denmark. -14% since 2021.

Vietnamese
18 speakers

18 speakers, 0.3% of Denmark. +38% since 2021.

Mandarin
11 speakers

11 speakers, 0.2% of Denmark. +83% since 2021.

The languages of Denmark

17 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.

German
60 · -14.3%
Vietnamese
18 · +38.5%
Mandarin
11 · +83.3%
French
11 · -31.3%
Tagalog
8
Afrikaans
7 · +16.7%
Indonesian
7 · 0.0%
Polish
6 · -45.5%
Dutch
5 · -28.6%
Spanish
5 · -28.6%
Portuguese
4
Latvian
3
Japanese
3
Tamil
3
Italian
3
GROWTH ≥ 50%
≥ 20%
≥ 5%
≥ 0%
≥ -10%
DECLINING
  1. 01
    German60 · 1.0%
    14.3%
  2. 02
    Vietnamese18 · 0.3%
    38.5%
  3. 03
    Mandarin11 · 0.2%
    83.3%
  4. 04
    French11 · 0.2%
    31.3%
  5. 05
    Tagalog8 · 0.1%
    0.0%
  6. 06
    Afrikaans7 · 0.1%
    16.7%
  7. 07
    Indonesian7 · 0.1%
    0.0%
  8. 08
    Polish6 · 0.1%
    45.5%
  9. 09
    Dutch5 · 0.1%
    28.6%
  10. 10
    Spanish5 · 0.1%
    28.6%
  11. 11
    Portuguese4 · 0.1%
    20.0%
  12. 12
    Latvian3 · 0.0%
    0.0%
Fastest-growing among us
Mandarin
+83.3% 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
Denmark
12.0%
Western Australia
23.5%
Australia
27.3%

12.0% of Denmark residents speak a language other than English at home, against 23.5% for Western Australia and 27.3% nationally. Drawn from the 2021 census.