Mandarin
818 speakers
Mandarin is spoken by 818 of our residents at home, 2.9% of Mosman.
We are Mosman
15 per cent.
About 15 in every 100 Mosman residents speak a language other than English at home, across 70 languages.
- Our population
- 27,877
- Speak another language
- 4,240
- Languages at home
- 70
- Growth since last census
- +10.4%
4,240 of us — 15.2% — speak a language other than English at home, most often Mandarin, Spanish and Cantonese. A share this size is easy to design around by accident, which is precisely how it gets designed out.
In New South Wales
#28
of 128 New South Wales councils for the share of residents speaking a language other than English at home. #128 of 540 nationally.
What makes our community ours
Spanish
345 speakers
Spanish is spoken by 345 of our residents at home, 1.2% of Mosman.
Cantonese
314 speakers
Cantonese is spoken by 314 of our residents at home, 1.1% of Mosman.
The languages of Mosman
70 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.
- Grew 50%+
- 25%+
- 10%+
- Held
- Slipped
- Declined 10%+
- Not comparable
Every language, in order
Speakers at the 2021 Census, with the change since 2016. Broader ABS categories such as “Chinese, nfd” are counted in our totals but left out of this list, so the percentages can exceed the sum of the languages shown.
Fastest-growing among us
Mandarin
+36.6% since last census
We share this portrait because a council below the New South Wales average is the one most likely to be planned for as though everybody here reads English. 4,240 of us do not, at home, and a service that reaches everyone except them has not reached everyone. This almanac exists so that the number is on the record before the decision is made.
Mandarin grew 36.6% since the last census, to 818 speakers. A community growing at that rate is one whose translation needs are ahead of the last set of figures anyone commissioned.
Who we are, beyond language
Where we were born
32.8% of us were born overseas, across 98 countries.
- 01England2,4050%
- 02New Zealand728-6.7%
- 03China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)723+34.1%
- 04South Africa514+8.9%
- 05United States of America461-15.4%
- 06Germany244+26.4%
- 07Hong Kong (SAR of China)223+12.6%
- 08Scotland223+1.8%
- 09India221-4.7%
- 10Brazil188+75.7%
What we believe
Reported affiliation in Mosman at the 2021 Census, with the change since 2016.
- 01Christianity14,114-7.4%
- 02No religion or secular beliefs11,506+26.9%
- 03Buddhism392+4.5%
- 04Hinduism283+10.1%
- 05Judaism224-7.4%
- 06Islam141+58.4%
Our suburbs
Our linguistic character changes street by street. Click through to any of our 1 suburbs for its own portrait: the languages spoken there, the communities calling it home.
- MosmanTop language — Mandarin15%4,240
- 1 suburbs in Mosman. Percentage is residents speaking a language other than English at home; the figure beneath it is how many people that is.
Where we are
Mosman shaded by the share of residents speaking a language other than English at home. Boundaries are ABS ASGS 2021. See every council on one map.
In context
- Mosman
- 15.2%
- New South Wales
- 25.7%
- Australia
- 21.3%
15.2% of Mosman residents speak a language other than English at home, against 25.7% for New South Wales and 21.3% nationally. Drawn from the 2021 Census.
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.
How the headline share is counted. 15.2% is 4,240 residents as a share of all 27,877 of us. A further 978 did not state a language at all, and we do not count them as speaking one — counting every non-response as a non-English speaker would put this figure at 18.7%, which is a larger number and a weaker claim. Measured only across the residents who answered, the share is 15.8%. If you have seen a higher figure quoted for Mosman, it is almost certainly one of those two.
Two further caveats we would rather state than bury. Summing suburbs omits residents not allocated to one — no usual address, migratory and unincorporated areas — so national totals sit a little under the ABS published figures; the Mosman figures on this page are unaffected. And ranked language lists exclude ABS residual categories such as “Chinese, nfd”, which are not languages anyone can order a translation in; they remain inside the headline total.
Need this community reached in its own languages? Talk to us about translation in Mosman.