Shona
3 speakers
Used at home by fewer than one in 100 residents.
Ngaanyatjarraku, Western Australia
The languages of Ngaanyatjarraku
The 2021 Census counted about 1,100 people in Ngaanyatjarraku speaking a First Nations language at home, with Ngaanyatjarra the most common. The one-in-100 mark is passed by only two languages. Nationally, the share speaking another language is less than half of Ngaanyatjarraku's.
- Residents
- 1,339
- Speak another language
- 1,102
- Languages at home
- 8
- Change since 2016
- −11.6%
How many people in Ngaanyatjarraku speak a First Nations language?
The census names Ngaanyatjarra, Pitjantjatjara and Wik Ngathan as the most spoken First Nations languages. Among residents who speak another language at home, a First Nations language is the choice of 98 per cent of them.
- 01969+2.1%
- 02109-38.8%
- 034
The ABS’s own post-enumeration survey found the census missed a much larger share of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people than of the population overall, so counts here are best read as a floor.
How different is Ngaanyatjarraku from Western Australia?
Ngaanyatjarraku has more than three times the rate of other-language speakers found across Western Australia. In Western Australia, 129 councils rank above Ngaanyatjarraku.
- Ngaanyatjarraku
- 82.3%
- Western Australia
- 17.3%
- Australia
- 21.3%
Shares are calculated the same way for each area, so the bars compare directly.
What are all the languages spoken in Ngaanyatjarraku?
Counts are people who speak the language at home; the chip is their change since 2016. Catch-all ABS groups aren't listed.
- 01969+2.1%
- 02109-38.8%
- 035
- 044
- 053
- 060-100%
- 070-100%
- 080-100%
Which other languages are spoken in Ngaanyatjarraku?
These lead among languages from overseas.
Include First Nations languagesShowing multicultural languagesLEXIGO works in multicultural communication. First Nations languages are optional to display and are not counted in the multicultural rankings.
Where in Ngaanyatjarraku is English least common at home?
Pick a suburb to see its languages in full.
- WanarnLed by Ngaanyatjarra90%94
- MantamaruLed by Ngaanyatjarra89%101
- PapulankutjaLed by Ngaanyatjarra85%139
- WarakurnaLed by Ngaanyatjarra84%158
- IrrunytjuLed by Pitjantjatjara81%105
- Warburton (WA)Led by Ngaanyatjarra79%505
- The larger figure is each suburb's share speaking a language other than English; the smaller is people. 6 suburbs listed.
How does Ngaanyatjarraku look on the map?
The shading shows how many residents speak a multicultural languageany language other than English at home, on ABS ASGS 2021 boundaries. Compare Ngaanyatjarraku with its neighbours on the full map.
ABS Census of Population and Housing, 2021: language used at home, by Statistical Area Level 2, rolled up to Local Government Area. Change is measured from 2016.
Blank answers matter here. 108 residents gave none, and they're left out of the 82.3%. Count them in and it's 90.4%; drop them from the base and it's 89.5%.
Figures for Ngaanyatjarraku 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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