We are Napranum

14 per cent.

About 14 in every 100 Napranum residents speak a language other than English at home, across 7 languages.

Our population
963
Speak another language
136
Languages at home
7
Growth since last census
−57.0%

136 of us — 14.1% — speak a language other than English at home, most often Yumplatok (Torres Strait Creole), Fijian and Tongan. A share this size is easy to design around by accident, which is precisely how it gets designed out.

In Queensland

#14

of 76 Queensland councils for the share of residents speaking a language other than English at home. #136 of 540 nationally.

What makes our community ours

Fijian

11 speakers

Fijian is spoken by 11 of our residents at home, 1.1% of Napranum.

Tongan

5 speakers

Tongan is spoken by 5 of our residents at home, 0.5% of Napranum.

The languages of Napranum

7 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
The 4 most spoken languages in Napranum, covering 67 speakers. Area is speakers at the 2021 Census; tint is the change since 2016. Every figure is also in the table below.

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.

  1. 01
    Yumplatok (Torres Strait Creole)
    47-65.9%
  2. 02
    Fijian
    11
  3. 03
    Tongan
    5-37.5%
  4. 04
    Aboriginal English, so described
    4
  5. 05
    Kriol
    0-100%
  6. 06
    Mandarin
    0-100%
  7. 07
    Mauritian Creole
    0-100%

Why we publish this

14.1% of us

We share this portrait because Napranum is, genuinely, not an “average” council. 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

1.6% of us were born overseas, across 4 countries.

  1. 01
    Fiji
    11+83.3%
  2. 02
    Tonga
    50%
  3. 03
    Philippines
    0-100%
  4. 04
    Uganda
    0-100%

What we believe

Reported affiliation in Napranum at the 2021 Census, with the change since 2016.

  1. 01
    No religion or secular beliefs
    358-13.9%
  2. 02
    Christianity
    334-22.5%

Our suburbs

Our linguistic character changes street by street. Click through to any of our 1 suburbs for its own portrait: the languages spoken there, the communities calling it home.

Where we are

Napranum 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

Napranum
14.1%
Queensland
12.2%
Australia
21.3%

14.1% of Napranum 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. 14.1% is 136 residents as a share of all 963 of us. A further 251 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 40.2%, which is a larger number and a weaker claim. Measured only across the residents who answered, the share is 19.1%. If you have seen a higher figure quoted for Napranum, 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 Napranum 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.

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