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Peppermint Grove, Western Australia

Languages spoken in Peppermint Grove

The 2021 Census found one in 13 residents in Peppermint Grove speaking a language other than English at home, with Mandarin and Spanish the largest groups. Most other languages here have fewer than one speaker per 100 residents. Nationally, the share speaking another language is more than double.

Residents
1,565
Speak another language
119
Languages at home
22
Change since 2016
−19.0%

Who speaks another language at home in Peppermint Grove?

Mandarin, Spanish and Indonesian are the three largest.

Mandarin

32 speakers

About 2 per cent of all residents.

Spanish

15 speakers

Between the last two censuses it has grown by about three quarters.

Indonesian

8 speakers

That's fewer than one in 100 residents.

Which languages make up most of Peppermint Grove's multilingual community?

These communities are broadly the size they were in 2016.

The five largest languages other than English, with the change since 2016. The full list is one click away.

  1. 01
    Mandarin
    32+23.1%
  2. 02
    Spanish
    15+87.5%
  3. 03
    Indonesian
    8
  4. 04
    Cantonese
    6-50.0%
  5. 05
    French
    6-33.3%

How does Peppermint Grove compare with the City of Perth?

The share for the City of Perth is more than twice as high as Peppermint Grove's. Within Western Australia, Peppermint Grove ranks 36th of 137.

Peppermint Grove
7.6%
City of Perth
33.5%
Australia
21.3%

Share of residents speaking a language other than English at home, by the same method for every area.

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How does the share change across Peppermint Grove's suburbs?

The suburb names link through to their own figures.

Which countries are Peppermint Grove's overseas-born residents from?

Among residents born overseas, England leads.

Country of birth

25.5% born overseas, across 33 countries.

  1. 01
    England
    125-3.1%
  2. 02
    South Africa
    37+12.1%
  3. 03
    China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)
    29+164%
  4. 04
    United States of America
    24+60.0%
  5. 05
    Singapore
    23+156%
  6. 06
    Japan
    15+150%
  7. 07
    Ireland
    13-40.9%
  8. 08
    Scotland
    13-35.0%
  9. 09
    France
    11+22.2%
  10. 10
    Iran
    11+175%

Religious affiliation

Reported affiliation, with the change since 2016.

  1. 01
    Christianity
    802-14.5%
  2. 02
    No religion or secular beliefs
    599+21.7%
  3. 03
    Judaism
    23+43.8%
  4. 04
    Islam
    16+220%
  5. 05
    Hinduism
    15-21.1%
  6. 06
    Buddhism
    7+133%

Figures come from the ABS Census of Population and Housing 2021 (language used at home), aggregated from Statistical Area Level 2 to Local Government Area, with 2016 for comparison.

Other sources sometimes quote 11.8% for Peppermint Grove. That figure treats the 65 unanswered forms as another language. This page uses 7.6%, and 7.9% is the share among those who answered.

Ranked lists skip broad categories such as "Chinese, nfd", which stay in the totals. National figures are summed from suburbs and sit a touch under the ABS release.

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

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