16.5% ▲ +30.0%
Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.7%
- 2016: 15.1%
- 2021: 16.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Mosman · Suburb / Locality
Language in Mosman
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More people use a language other than English in Mosman than in most similar areas, though it remains far less diverse than the wider state. Only 16.5% of residents speak a different language at home, which is well below the national figure of 22.3%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 80% of the area, with Mandarin at 3% being the most common other tongue. While 1.5% of people speak little or no English, which is much higher than in similar areas, this is still a little below the New South Wales figure of 4.5%.
1.5% ▲ +10.0%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.4%
- 2021: 1.5%
Share of people who use another language at home and speak English not well or not at all. No 2011 figure — that census only asked proficiency of overseas-born residents.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Mosman [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12749/mosman/topic/language