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We are Peppermint Grove

We are Peppermint Grove.

Home to one of the larger Mandarin-speaking communities in Western Australia, and 15 other language communities besides.

Our population
1,565
Speak another language
184
Languages at home
15+
Growth since last census
+3.6%
16 languages are spoken at home in Peppermint Grove. Mandarin leads (32 speakers), with Spanish close behind (15). 12 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
32
Our largest community language, Mandarin, is spoken by 2.0% of Peppermint Grove residents at home.
What makes our community ours
Mandarin
32 speakers

32 speakers, 2.0% of Peppermint Grove. +23% since 2021.

Spanish
15 speakers

15 speakers, 1.0% of Peppermint Grove. +88% since 2021.

Indonesian
8 speakers

8 speakers, 0.5% of Peppermint Grove.

The languages of Peppermint Grove

16 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
32 · +23.1%
Spanish
15 · +87.5%
Indonesian
8 · 0.0%
Tamil
6 · +50.0%
Italian
6 · -50.0%
Urdu
6 · 0.0%
French
6 · -33.3%
Persian (excluding Dari)
6 · -45.5%
Cantonese
6 · -50.0%
Greek
5 · -61.5%
Polish
5 · -37.5%
Malay
5 · 0.0%
Vietnamese
4 · 0.0%
Afrikaans
3 · -40.0%
Hebrew
3 · -50.0%
GROWTH ≥ 50%
≥ 20%
≥ 5%
≥ 0%
≥ -10%
DECLINING
  1. 01
    Mandarin32 · 2.0%
    23.1%
  2. 02
    Spanish15 · 1.0%
    87.5%
  3. 03
    Indonesian8 · 0.5%
    0.0%
  4. 04
    Tamil6 · 0.4%
    50.0%
  5. 05
    Italian6 · 0.4%
    50.0%
  6. 06
    Urdu6 · 0.4%
    0.0%
  7. 07
    French6 · 0.4%
    33.3%
  8. 08
    Persian (excluding Dari)6 · 0.4%
    45.5%
  9. 09
    Cantonese6 · 0.4%
    50.0%
  10. 10
    Greek5 · 0.3%
    61.5%
  11. 11
    Polish5 · 0.3%
    37.5%
  12. 12
    Malay5 · 0.3%
    0.0%
Fastest-growing among us
Spanish
+87.5% 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
Peppermint Grove
11.8%
Western Australia
23.5%
Australia
27.3%

11.8% of Peppermint Grove residents speak a language other than English at home, against 23.5% for Western Australia and 27.3% nationally. Drawn from the 2021 census.