Italian
165 speakers
That's one in 45 residents.
East Fremantle, Western Australia
The 2021 Census counted 510 people in East Fremantle using a language other than English at home, and Italian tops that list. Most other languages here have fewer than one speaker per 100 residents. Nationally, the share speaking another language is more than double.
Italian, German and French have the most speakers.
Italian has led the list since at least 2016.
Five rows to start: the languages with the most speakers, and how each has changed since 2016.
In the City of Perth, the share speaking another language is more than double. Among 137 councils in Western Australia, East Fremantle is 42nd.
Each bar uses the same count: residents who named another home language, over all residents.
Compare East Fremantle with every council on the diversity index.
Every suburb here has a page of its own.
England is the most common overseas birthplace.
21.7% born overseas, across 50 countries.
Reported affiliation, with the change since 2016.
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.
Other sources sometimes quote 10.8% for East Fremantle. That figure treats the 321 unanswered forms as another language. This page uses 6.6%, and 6.9% is the share among those who answered.
Language lists name languages only; residual ABS groups are in the totals. Summed-suburb national totals run a little low.
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