Martu Wangka
590 speakers
Martu Wangka is spoken by 590 of our residents at home, 6.2% of East Pilbara.
We are East Pilbara
19 per cent.
About 19 in every 100 East Pilbara residents speak a language other than English at home, across 81 languages.
- Our population
- 9,581
- Speak another language
- 1,820
- Languages at home
- 81
- Growth since last census
- −1.1%
1,820 of us — 19.0% — speak a language other than English at home, most often Martu Wangka, Pintupi and Nyangumarta. A share this size is easy to design around by accident, which is precisely how it gets designed out.
In Western Australia
#18
of 137 Western Australia councils for the share of residents speaking a language other than English at home. #107 of 540 nationally.
What makes our community ours
Pintupi
154 speakers
Pintupi is spoken by 154 of our residents at home, 1.6% of East Pilbara.
Nyangumarta
102 speakers
Nyangumarta is spoken by 102 of our residents at home, 1.1% of East Pilbara.
The languages of East Pilbara
81 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.
- Grew 50%+
- 25%+
- 10%+
- Held
- Slipped
- Declined 10%+
- Not comparable
Every language, in order
Speakers at the 2021 Census, with the change since 2016. Broader ABS categories such as “Chinese, nfd” are counted in our totals but left out of this list, so the percentages can exceed the sum of the languages shown.
- 01590+20.9%
- 02154+161%
- 03102-5.6%
- 04102-7.3%
- 0594+77.4%
- 0656+9.8%
- 0754-80.5%
- 0841+24.2%
- 0937+32.1%
- 10340%
Fastest-growing among us
Martu Wangka
+20.9% since last census
We share this portrait because East Pilbara is, genuinely, not an “average” council. Services designed for the median Western Australia resident arrive here in the wrong language. This almanac exists so that nobody writing policy about us — federal, state, corporate or media — can say they did not know.
Martu Wangka grew 20.9% since the last census, to 590 speakers. A community growing at that rate is one whose translation needs are ahead of the last set of figures anyone commissioned.
Who we are, beyond language
Where we were born
19.0% of us were born overseas, across 61 countries.
- 01New Zealand596-22.6%
- 02England249-16.4%
- 03Philippines223+26.7%
- 04South Africa90+16.9%
- 05India74+25.4%
- 06Zimbabwe73-2.7%
- 07Thailand68+54.5%
- 08Ireland53+29.3%
- 09Zambia36+260%
- 10Indonesia29+81.3%
What we believe
Reported affiliation in East Pilbara at the 2021 Census, with the change since 2016.
- 01No religion or secular beliefs3,823+7.6%
- 02Christianity2,917-32.9%
- 03Buddhism123-8.9%
- 04Islam95+90.0%
- 05Hinduism78-1.3%
- 06Judaism40%
Our suburbs
Our linguistic character changes street by street. Click through to any of our 6 suburbs for its own portrait: the languages spoken there, the communities calling it home.
- Gibson Desert NorthTop language — Pintupi95%248
- JigalongTop language — Martu Wangka90%253
- Marble BarTop language — Nyangumarta38%130
- TelferTop language — Martu Wangka35%223
- NullagineTop language — Martu Wangka14%243
- NewmanTop language — Filipino12%723
- 6 suburbs in East Pilbara. Percentage is residents speaking a language other than English at home; the figure beneath it is how many people that is.
Where we are
East Pilbara shaded by the share of residents speaking a language other than English at home. Boundaries are ABS ASGS 2021. See every council on one map.
In context
- East Pilbara
- 19.0%
- Western Australia
- 17.3%
- Australia
- 21.3%
19.0% of East Pilbara residents speak a language other than English at home, against 17.3% for Western Australia and 21.3% nationally. Drawn from the 2021 Census.
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census of Population and Housing 2021, language used at home by Statistical Area Level 2, aggregated to Local Government Area. Growth compares 2021 against the 2016 Census.
How the headline share is counted. 19.0% is 1,820 residents as a share of all 9,581 of us. A further 2,339 did not state a language at all, and we do not count them as speaking one — counting every non-response as a non-English speaker would put this figure at 43.4%, which is a larger number and a weaker claim. Measured only across the residents who answered, the share is 25.1%. If you have seen a higher figure quoted for East Pilbara, it is almost certainly one of those two.
Two further caveats we would rather state than bury. Summing suburbs omits residents not allocated to one — no usual address, migratory and unincorporated areas — so national totals sit a little under the ABS published figures; the East Pilbara figures on this page are unaffected. And ranked language lists exclude ABS residual categories such as “Chinese, nfd”, which are not languages anyone can order a translation in; they remain inside the headline total.
Need this community reached in its own languages? Talk to us about translation in East Pilbara.