4.1% ▲ +18.1%
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.5%
- 2016: 3.3%
- 2021: 4.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Yass · Suburb / Locality
Language in Yass
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Only 4.1% of people in Yass use a language other than English at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. English is the dominant language spoken here, with the vast majority of residents using it exclusively.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken by 90.9% of the population. While 0.6% of people speak little or no English, which is higher than most similar areas, this is still well below the New South Wales figure of 4.5%.
0.6% ▲ +103.1%
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.3%
- 2021: 0.6%
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 Yass [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14511/yass/topic/language