Lardil
276 speakers
Lardil is spoken by 276 of our residents at home, 18.9% of Mornington.
We are Mornington
34 per cent.
Nearly 34 in every 100 Mornington residents speak a language other than English at home. It is among the highest shares of any council in Queensland.
- Our population
- 1,457
- Speak another language
- 497
- Languages at home
- 14
- Growth since last census
- +214.6%
One in 3 of us speaks a language other than English at home: 497 people, most often Lardil, Yumplatok (Torres Strait Creole) and Kayardild. That is not a fringe of the community. It is a standing share of every audience anyone here is trying to reach.
In Queensland
#10
of 76 Queensland councils for the share of residents speaking a language other than English at home. #60 of 540 nationally.
What makes our community ours
Yumplatok (Torres Strait Creole)
65 speakers
Yumplatok (Torres Strait Creole) is spoken by 65 of our residents at home, 4.5% of Mornington.
Kayardild
44 speakers
Kayardild is spoken by 44 of our residents at home, 3.0% of Mornington.
The languages of Mornington
14 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.
- 01276+402%
- 0265+442%
- 0344+529%
- 047
- 056
- 065
- 074
- 084
- 0930%
- 103
Why we publish this
34.1% of us
We share this portrait because Mornington is, genuinely, not an “average” council — the share here is 2.8 times the Queensland figure. Services designed for the median Queensland 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.
Who we are, beyond language
Where we were born
2.0% of us were born overseas, across 6 countries.
- 01New Zealand8+60.0%
- 02England4-33.3%
- 03Fiji4
- 04Papua New Guinea4+33.3%
- 05India0-100%
- 06Philippines0-100%
What we believe
Reported affiliation in Mornington at the 2021 Census, with the change since 2016.
- 01No religion or secular beliefs668+9.3%
- 02Christianity355-43.9%
- 03Buddhism3
- 04Hinduism3
Our suburbs
Our linguistic character changes street by street. Click through to any of our 2 suburbs for its own portrait: the languages spoken there, the communities calling it home.
- Wellesley IslandsTop language — Lardil35%356
- Gulf Of CarpentariaTop language — Yumplatok (Torres Strait Creole)32%141
- 2 suburbs in Mornington. Percentage is residents speaking a language other than English at home; the figure beneath it is how many people that is.
Where we are
Mornington 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
- Mornington
- 34.1%
- Queensland
- 12.2%
- Australia
- 21.3%
34.1% of Mornington residents speak a language other than English at home, against 12.2% for Queensland 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. 34.1% is 497 residents as a share of all 1,457 of us. A further 152 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 44.5%, which is a larger number and a weaker claim. Measured only across the residents who answered, the share is 38.1%. If you have seen a higher figure quoted for Mornington, 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 Mornington 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 Mornington.