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We are Waratah-Wynyard

We are Waratah-Wynyard.

Home to one of the larger Nepali-speaking communities in Tasmania, and 20 other language communities besides.

Our population
14,173
Speak another language
1,029
Languages at home
15+
Growth since last census
+53.3%
21 languages are spoken at home in Waratah-Wynyard. Nepali leads (33 speakers), with Auslan close behind (21). 7 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 Nepali at home
33
Our largest community language, Nepali, is spoken by 0.2% of Waratah-Wynyard residents at home.
What makes our community ours
Nepali
33 speakers

33 speakers, 0.2% of Waratah-Wynyard.

Auslan
21 speakers

21 speakers, 0.1% of Waratah-Wynyard. +75% since 2021.

Thai
20 speakers

20 speakers, 0.1% of Waratah-Wynyard. +100% since 2021.

The languages of Waratah-Wynyard

21 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.

Nepali
33 · 0.0%
Auslan
21 · +75.0%
Thai
20 · +100.0%
Afrikaans
16 · +60.0%
Italian
14 · 0.0%
German
14 · +16.7%
Spanish
11 · +57.1%
Dutch
10 · 0.0%
Sinhalese
7 · 0.0%
Tagalog
7 · 0.0%
Latvian
5 · 0.0%
Urdu
5 · 0.0%
Non-verbal, so described
4 · 0.0%
Telugu
4 · 0.0%
French
4 · 0.0%
GROWTH ≥ 50%
≥ 20%
≥ 5%
≥ 0%
≥ -10%
DECLINING
  1. 01
    Nepali33 · 0.2%
    0.0%
  2. 02
    Auslan21 · 0.1%
    75.0%
  3. 03
    Thai20 · 0.1%
    100.0%
  4. 04
    Afrikaans16 · 0.1%
    60.0%
  5. 05
    Italian14 · 0.1%
    0.0%
  6. 06
    German14 · 0.1%
    16.7%
  7. 07
    Spanish11 · 0.1%
    57.1%
  8. 08
    Dutch10 · 0.1%
    0.0%
  9. 09
    Sinhalese7 · 0.0%
    0.0%
  10. 10
    Tagalog7 · 0.0%
    0.0%
  11. 11
    Latvian5 · 0.0%
    0.0%
  12. 12
    Urdu5 · 0.0%
    0.0%
Fastest-growing among us
Thai
+100.0% 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
Where we are
In context
Waratah-Wynyard
7.3%
Tasmania
13.3%
Australia
27.3%

7.3% of Waratah-Wynyard residents speak a language other than English at home, against 13.3% for Tasmania and 27.3% nationally. Drawn from the 2021 census.