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We are Yorke Peninsula

We are Yorke Peninsula.

Home to one of the larger Italian-speaking communities in South Australia, and 17 other language communities besides.

Our population
11,504
Speak another language
994
Languages at home
15+
Growth since last census
+47.8%
18 languages are spoken at home in Yorke Peninsula. Italian leads (15 speakers), with German close behind (12). 9 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 Italian at home
15
Our largest community language, Italian, is spoken by 0.1% of Yorke Peninsula residents at home.
What makes our community ours
Italian
15 speakers

15 speakers, 0.1% of Yorke Peninsula. +150% since 2021.

German
12 speakers

12 speakers, 0.1% of Yorke Peninsula. -25% since 2021.

Auslan
11 speakers

11 speakers, 0.1% of Yorke Peninsula. +83% since 2021.

The languages of Yorke Peninsula

18 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.

Italian
15 · +150.0%
German
12 · -25.0%
Auslan
11 · +83.3%
Greek
7 · 0.0%
Spanish
7 · 0.0%
Aboriginal English, so described
5 · 0.0%
Vietnamese
5 · 0.0%
Tagalog
4 · 0.0%
Latvian
4 · 0.0%
Nepali
4 · 0.0%
Finnish
4 · 0.0%
Arabic
3 · 0.0%
Filipino
3 · -70.0%
Thai
3 · 0.0%
French
3 · 0.0%
GROWTH ≥ 50%
≥ 20%
≥ 5%
≥ 0%
≥ -10%
DECLINING
  1. 01
    Italian15 · 0.1%
    150.0%
  2. 02
    German12 · 0.1%
    25.0%
  3. 03
    Auslan11 · 0.1%
    83.3%
  4. 04
    Greek7 · 0.1%
    0.0%
  5. 05
    Spanish7 · 0.1%
    0.0%
  6. 06
    Aboriginal English, so described5 · 0.0%
    0.0%
  7. 07
    Vietnamese5 · 0.0%
    0.0%
  8. 08
    Tagalog4 · 0.0%
    0.0%
  9. 09
    Latvian4 · 0.0%
    0.0%
  10. 10
    Nepali4 · 0.0%
    0.0%
  11. 11
    Finnish4 · 0.0%
    0.0%
  12. 12
    Arabic3 · 0.0%
    0.0%
Fastest-growing among us
Italian
+150.0% 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
Yorke Peninsula
8.6%
South Australia
20.5%
Australia
27.3%

8.6% of Yorke Peninsula residents speak a language other than English at home, against 20.5% for South Australia and 27.3% nationally. Drawn from the 2021 census.