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We are Mosman

We are Mosman.

Home to one of the larger Mandarin-speaking communities in New South Wales, and 61 other language communities besides.

Our population
27,877
Speak another language
5,218
Languages at home
15+
Growth since last census
+21.8%
62 languages are spoken at home in Mosman. Mandarin leads (818 speakers), with Spanish close behind (345). 19 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 Mandarin at home
818
Our largest community language, Mandarin, is spoken by 2.9% of Mosman residents at home.
What makes our community ours
Mandarin
818 speakers

818 speakers, 2.9% of Mosman. +37% since 2021.

Spanish
345 speakers

345 speakers, 1.2% of Mosman. +4% since 2021.

Cantonese
314 speakers

314 speakers, 1.1% of Mosman. +27% since 2021.

The languages of Mosman

62 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.

Mandarin
818 · +36.6%
Spanish
345 · +3.9%
Cantonese
314 · +26.6%
French
295 · +2.1%
Portuguese
210 · +76.5%
German
193 · -14.6%
Italian
191 · -15.1%
Greek
187 · +23.8%
Japanese
159 · -19.3%
Russian
115 · -13.5%
Polish
97
Afrikaans
75
Nepali
74
Dutch
73
Persian (excluding Dari)
68
GROWTH ≥ 50%
≥ 20%
≥ 5%
≥ 0%
≥ -10%
DECLINING
  1. 01
    Mandarin818 · 2.9%
    36.6%
  2. 02
    Spanish345 · 1.2%
    3.9%
  3. 03
    Cantonese314 · 1.1%
    26.6%
  4. 04
    French295 · 1.1%
    2.1%
  5. 05
    Portuguese210 · 0.8%
    76.5%
  6. 06
    German193 · 0.7%
    14.6%
  7. 07
    Italian191 · 0.7%
    15.1%
  8. 08
    Greek187 · 0.7%
    23.8%
  9. 09
    Japanese159 · 0.6%
    19.3%
  10. 10
    Russian115 · 0.4%
    13.5%
  11. 11
    Polish97 · 0.3%
    115.6%
  12. 12
    Afrikaans75 · 0.3%
    8.7%
Fastest-growing among us
Polish
+115.6% 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
Mosman
18.7%
New South Wales
31.4%
Australia
27.3%

18.7% of Mosman residents speak a language other than English at home, against 31.4% for New South Wales and 27.3% nationally. Drawn from the 2021 census.