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Yamba · Urban Centre

Language in Yamba

The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.

English is the primary language for 90.6% of people in Yamba. This makes it a very linguistically uniform place compared to the rest of the country, with very few residents speaking a foreign language at home.

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📍 Yamba, Urban Centre

Languages at home

English and the largest community languages.

Only 3.4% of residents use a language other than English at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. This is reflected in the fact that very few people, just 0.3%, speak little or no English.

People who speak little or no English

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0.3% —

Higher than 56% of urban centre areas.

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.

Language used at home

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In Yamba, English only is the majority at 99%; Mandarin is next at 0%.

English only 90.6% Mandarin 0.2% Italian 0.1% Tagalog 0.1% Arabic 0.0% Cantonese 0.0% Punjabi 0.0%

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 Yamba [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL114036/yamba/topic/language