4.1% ▲ +495.0%
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.7%
- 2016: 2.3%
- 2021: 4.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Yass River · Suburb / Locality
Language in Yass River
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English remains the dominant language in Yass River, where 83.9% of people use it as their only tongue at home. Very few residents use other languages, meaning the area is far less linguistically diverse than the rest of New South Wales.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 4.1% of people speak another language at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. While 0.7% of residents speak little or no English, this is higher than in most similar areas.
0.7% ▲ —
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.7%
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 River [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14512/yass-river/topic/language