Cottesloe, Western Australia

Which languages are spoken in Cottesloe?

The 2021 Census found about 360 people in Cottesloe speaking a language other than English at home, a small community in which Italian is the largest group. None of those languages reaches one resident in 100. Cottesloe's share is less than half the share for Western Australia.

Residents
7,609
Speak another language
356
Languages at home
34
Change since 2016
−11.9%

Which languages are heard at home in Cottesloe?

The largest communities are small, but they're here: Italian, French and Mandarin.

Italian

75 speakers

That's fewer than one in 100 residents.

French

39 speakers

Its speaker count has fallen by more than a quarter since 2016.

Mandarin

35 speakers

About 0.5 per cent of all residents.

How does Cottesloe compare with the City of Perth?

In the City of Perth, the share speaking another language is more than double. Within Western Australia, Cottesloe ranks 61st of 137.

Cottesloe
4.7%
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.

Find Cottesloe on the diversity index.

Where in Cottesloe are other languages most common?

Every suburb here has a page of its own.

  • CottesloeLed by Italian5%356
  • 1 suburbs in Cottesloe. The percentage is residents speaking a language other than English at home; the figure beneath it is how many people that is.

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.

The headline 4.7% counts only residents who named a language other than English. 331 people left the question blank; treat every blank as another language and the figure is 9.0%, while measuring only those who answered gives 4.9%.

Language lists name languages only; residual ABS groups are in the totals. Summed-suburb national totals run a little low.

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

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