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We are Yass Valley

We are Yass Valley.

Home to one of the larger Croatian-speaking communities in New South Wales, and 42 other language communities besides.

Our population
16,991
Speak another language
1,342
Languages at home
15+
Growth since last census
+40.3%
43 languages are spoken at home in Yass Valley. Croatian leads (44 speakers), with German close behind (43). 8 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 Croatian at home
44
Our largest community language, Croatian, is spoken by 0.3% of Yass Valley residents at home.
What makes our community ours
Croatian
44 speakers

44 speakers, 0.3% of Yass Valley. -19% since 2021.

German
43 speakers

43 speakers, 0.3% of Yass Valley. -27% since 2021.

Mandarin
35 speakers

35 speakers, 0.2% of Yass Valley. -8% since 2021.

The languages of Yass Valley

43 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.

Croatian
44 · -18.5%
German
43 · -27.1%
Mandarin
35 · -7.9%
Arabic
31 · -3.1%
Italian
31 · +106.7%
Punjabi
26 · 0.0%
Spanish
20 · -4.8%
Polish
19 · +137.5%
Greek
18 · +38.5%
Vietnamese
18 · -25.0%
Malayalam
15 · +25.0%
Afrikaans
14 · -12.5%
Dutch
14 · -50.0%
Thai
14 · +180.0%
Portuguese
13 · +333.3%
GROWTH ≥ 50%
≥ 20%
≥ 5%
≥ 0%
≥ -10%
DECLINING
  1. 01
    Croatian44 · 0.3%
    18.5%
  2. 02
    German43 · 0.3%
    27.1%
  3. 03
    Mandarin35 · 0.2%
    7.9%
  4. 04
    Arabic31 · 0.2%
    3.1%
  5. 05
    Italian31 · 0.2%
    106.7%
  6. 06
    Punjabi26 · 0.2%
    0.0%
  7. 07
    Spanish20 · 0.1%
    4.8%
  8. 08
    Polish19 · 0.1%
    137.5%
  9. 09
    Greek18 · 0.1%
    38.5%
  10. 10
    Vietnamese18 · 0.1%
    25.0%
  11. 11
    Malayalam15 · 0.1%
    25.0%
  12. 12
    Afrikaans14 · 0.1%
    12.5%
Fastest-growing among us
Portuguese
+333.3% 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
Yass Valley
7.9%
New South Wales
31.4%
Australia
27.3%

7.9% of Yass Valley residents speak a language other than English at home, against 31.4% for New South Wales and 27.3% nationally. Drawn from the 2021 census.