We are Mosman Park

12 per cent.

About 12 in every 100 Mosman Park residents speak a language other than English at home, across 59 languages.

Our population
9,040
Speak another language
1,125
Languages at home
59
Growth since last census
+18.8%

1,125 of us — 12.4% — speak a language other than English at home, most often Mandarin, Italian and Spanish. A share this size is easy to design around by accident, which is precisely how it gets designed out.

In Western Australia

#28

of 137 Western Australia councils for the share of residents speaking a language other than English at home. #145 of 540 nationally.

What makes our community ours

Mandarin

160 speakers

Mandarin is spoken by 160 of our residents at home, 1.8% of Mosman Park.

Italian

90 speakers

Italian is spoken by 90 of our residents at home, 1.0% of Mosman Park.

Spanish

85 speakers

Spanish is spoken by 85 of our residents at home, 0.9% of Mosman Park.

The languages of Mosman Park

59 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
The 18 most spoken languages in Mosman Park, covering 814 speakers. Area is speakers at the 2021 Census; tint is the change since 2016. Every figure is also in the table below.

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.

  1. 01160+37.9%
  2. 0290+18.4%
  3. 0385+63.5%
  4. 0458-12.1%
  5. 05530%
  6. 0650+6.4%
  7. 0748+20.0%
  8. 0835+1067%
  9. 0934+100%
  10. 1030+66.7%

Why we publish this

12.4% of us

We share this portrait because a council below the Western Australia average is the one most likely to be planned for as though everybody here reads English. 1,125 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.

Who we are, beyond language

Where we were born

30.0% of us were born overseas, across 72 countries.

  1. 01
    England
    748+0.5%
  2. 02
    South Africa
    186+5.1%
  3. 03
    New Zealand
    162-10.0%
  4. 04
    Bhutan
    107+98.1%
  5. 05
    China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)
    105+10.5%
  6. 06
    Ireland
    105+38.2%
  7. 07
    United States of America
    96+26.3%
  8. 08
    Singapore
    93+82.4%
  9. 09
    Scotland
    92+2.2%
  10. 10
    Malaysia
    90+23.3%

What we believe

Reported affiliation in Mosman Park at the 2021 Census, with the change since 2016.

  1. 01
    No religion or secular beliefs
    4,132+36.0%
  2. 02
    Christianity
    3,915-10.2%
  3. 03
    Buddhism
    236+60.5%
  4. 04
    Hinduism
    102-3.8%
  5. 05
    Islam
    88+69.2%
  6. 06
    Judaism
    13+333%

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.

Where we are

Mosman Park 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 Park
12.4%
Western Australia
17.3%
Australia
21.3%

12.4% of Mosman Park residents speak a language other than English at home, against 17.3% for Western Australia 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. 12.4% is 1,125 residents as a share of all 9,040 of us. A further 502 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 18.0%, which is a larger number and a weaker claim. Measured only across the residents who answered, the share is 13.2%. If you have seen a higher figure quoted for Mosman Park, 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 Park 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 Park.