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We are East Fremantle

We are East Fremantle.

Home to one of the larger Italian-speaking communities in Western Australia, and 27 other language communities besides.

Our population
7,728
Speak another language
831
Languages at home
15+
Growth since last census
+30.7%
28 languages are spoken at home in East Fremantle. Italian leads (165 speakers), with German close behind (52). 11 per cent of us speak a language other than English at home. That is the measure of a community that has not left its languages behind.
speak Italian at home
165
Our largest community language, Italian, is spoken by 2.1% of East Fremantle residents at home.
What makes our community ours
Italian
165 speakers

165 speakers, 2.1% of East Fremantle. -22% since 2021.

German
52 speakers

52 speakers, 0.7% of East Fremantle.

French
39 speakers

39 speakers, 0.5% of East Fremantle. -19% since 2021.

The languages of East Fremantle

28 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.

Italian
165 · -22.2%
German
52 · 0.0%
French
39 · -18.8%
Portuguese
36 · +28.6%
Spanish
33 · +3.1%
Mandarin
25 · +525.0%
Dutch
25 · +78.6%
Croatian
22 · +29.4%
Japanese
15 · 0.0%
Korean
12 · +71.4%
Persian (excluding Dari)
10
Serbian
9
Greek
6
Bosnian
6
Swedish
6
GROWTH ≥ 50%
≥ 20%
≥ 5%
≥ 0%
≥ -10%
DECLINING
  1. 01
    Italian165 · 2.1%
    22.2%
  2. 02
    German52 · 0.7%
    0.0%
  3. 03
    French39 · 0.5%
    18.8%
  4. 04
    Portuguese36 · 0.5%
    28.6%
  5. 05
    Spanish33 · 0.4%
    3.1%
  6. 06
    Mandarin25 · 0.3%
    525.0%
  7. 07
    Dutch25 · 0.3%
    78.6%
  8. 08
    Croatian22 · 0.3%
    29.4%
  9. 09
    Japanese15 · 0.2%
    0.0%
  10. 10
    Korean12 · 0.2%
    71.4%
  11. 11
    Persian (excluding Dari)10 · 0.1%
    233.3%
  12. 12
    Serbian9 · 0.1%
    0.0%
Fastest-growing among us
Mandarin
+525.0% since last census

We publish this so our residents can see themselves counted, and so the agencies, funders and neighbours who serve us can see who we actually serve. Language access is not a translation line-item in our budget. It is how an emergency notice reaches a grandparent, how an enrolment form is understood, and how a health campaign actually lands in the suburbs that make up our council.

Our suburbs

Our linguistic character changes street by street. Click through to any suburb for its own portrait: the languages spoken there, the communities calling it home.

Where we are
In context
East Fremantle
10.8%
Western Australia
23.5%
Australia
27.3%

10.8% of East Fremantle residents speak a language other than English at home, against 23.5% for Western Australia and 27.3% nationally. Drawn from the 2021 census.