Clarence Valley, New South Wales

Languages spoken in Clarence Valley

Clarence Valley is overwhelmingly English-speaking: at the 2021 Census, 2 per cent of residents used another language at home, most often Punjabi. No language other than English reaches one in 100 residents. The share in the City of Sydney is at least twice Clarence Valley's.

Residents: 53,690
Speak another language: 1,066
Languages at home: 62
Change since 2016: +43.1%

Which communities in Clarence Valley speak another language at home?

Punjabi has the most speakers, though every group here is small.

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Punjabi

113 speakers

Its speaker count has more than tripled since 2016.

German

86 speakers

About 0.2 per cent of all residents.

Spanish

55 speakers

Between the last two censuses it has grown by more than a quarter.

Is Clarence Valley typical of New South Wales?

Across New South Wales, a language other than English is at least twice as common. Clarence Valley sits in the lower half of New South Wales' councils, at 106th of 128.

Clarence Valley: 2.0%
New South Wales: 25.7%
City of Sydney: 33.9%

Same method throughout, so the gap between the bars is the real gap.

The full diversity index, with Clarence Valley highlighted.

How even is Clarence Valley from suburb to suburb?

Townsend tops the list, but the spread across 60 suburbs is narrow.

Each suburb links to its own page, with the languages spoken there.

Data: ABS Census of Population and Housing 2021, language used at home, summed from Statistical Area Level 2 to council. Changes are against the 2016 Census.

Blank answers matter here. 4,568 residents gave none, and they're left out of the 2.0%. Count them in and it's 10.5%; drop them from the base and it's 2.2%.

Figures for Clarence Valley itself aren't affected by the small gap between summed suburbs and ABS national totals. Unnamed ABS categories are in every total and out of every ranked list.

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