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We are Wyndham-East Kimberley

We are Wyndham-East Kimberley.

Home to one of the larger Miriwoong-speaking communities in Western Australia, and 46 other language communities besides.

Our population
7,353
Speak another language
2,074
Languages at home
15+
Growth since last census
+56.4%
47 languages are spoken at home in Wyndham-East Kimberley. Miriwoong leads (141 speakers), with Kriol close behind (63). 28 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 Miriwoong at home
141
Our largest community language, Miriwoong, is spoken by 1.9% of Wyndham-East Kimberley residents at home.
What makes our community ours
Miriwoong
141 speakers

141 speakers, 1.9% of Wyndham-East Kimberley. +13% since 2021.

Kriol
63 speakers

63 speakers, 0.9% of Wyndham-East Kimberley. +31% since 2021.

Kija
54 speakers

54 speakers, 0.7% of Wyndham-East Kimberley. +170% since 2021.

The languages of Wyndham-East Kimberley

47 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.

Miriwoong
141 · +12.8%
Kriol
63 · +31.3%
Kija
54 · +170.0%
French
52 · +126.1%
German
36 · -35.7%
Mandarin
32 · +6.7%
Filipino
21 · 0.0%
Vietnamese
20 · -13.0%
Spanish
18 · +500.0%
Jaru
16 · -27.3%
Malayalam
15 · +66.7%
Thai
15 · -21.1%
Indonesian
14 · +100.0%
Cantonese
14 · +100.0%
Tagalog
13 · -43.5%
GROWTH ≥ 50%
≥ 20%
≥ 5%
≥ 0%
≥ -10%
DECLINING
  1. 01
    Miriwoong141 · 1.9%
    12.8%
  2. 02
    Kriol63 · 0.9%
    31.3%
  3. 03
    Kija54 · 0.7%
    170.0%
  4. 04
    French52 · 0.7%
    126.1%
  5. 05
    German36 · 0.5%
    35.7%
  6. 06
    Mandarin32 · 0.4%
    6.7%
  7. 07
    Filipino21 · 0.3%
    0.0%
  8. 08
    Vietnamese20 · 0.3%
    13.0%
  9. 09
    Spanish18 · 0.2%
    500.0%
  10. 10
    Jaru16 · 0.2%
    27.3%
  11. 11
    Malayalam15 · 0.2%
    66.7%
  12. 12
    Thai15 · 0.2%
    21.1%
Fastest-growing among us
Spanish
+500.0% 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
Wyndham-East Kimberley
28.2%
Western Australia
23.5%
Australia
27.3%

28.2% of Wyndham-East Kimberley residents speak a language other than English at home, against 23.5% for Western Australia and 27.3% nationally. Drawn from the 2021 census.