West Coast District Municipality
Language Population %
Afrikaans 311,829 83.7%
Xhosa 31,978 8.6%
English 14,828 4.0%
Sotho 4,668 1.3%
Tswana 2,358 0.6%
Sign language 1,146 0.3%
Zulu 833 0.2%
Ndebele 683 0.2%
Tsonga 448 0.1%
Venda 327 0.1%
Northern Sotho 322 0.1%
Swazi 206 0.1%
Other 3,043 0.8%
Total 372,669
Not applicable 19,099
First language
The West Coast District Municipality is a district municipality located in the Western Cape province of South Africa. Its municipality code is DC1. Moorreesburg is the seat of the district. As of 2011 it had a total population of 391,766.