Ngaanyatjarra
969 speakers
Ngaanyatjarra is spoken by 969 of our residents at home, 72.4% of Ngaanyatjarraku.
We are Ngaanyatjarraku
82 per cent.
Nearly 82 in every 100 Ngaanyatjarraku residents speak a language other than English at home. It is among the highest shares of any council in Western Australia.
- Our population
- 1,339
- Speak another language
- 1,102
- Languages at home
- 8
- Growth since last census
- −11.6%
Our neighbourhoods run in Ngaanyatjarra, Pitjantjatjara and Non-verbal, so described as readily as they do in English. 1,102 of us speak a language other than English at home — a higher share than almost anywhere else in the country, and the ordinary condition of daily life here rather than an exception to it.
In Western Australia
#1
for share of residents speaking a language other than English at home, of 137 Western Australia councils — a ranking Ngaanyatjarraku has held through successive censuses. #6 of 540 nationally.
What makes our community ours
Pitjantjatjara
109 speakers
Pitjantjatjara is spoken by 109 of our residents at home, 8.1% of Ngaanyatjarraku.
Non-verbal, so described
5 speakers
Non-verbal, so described is spoken by 5 of our residents at home, 0.4% of Ngaanyatjarraku.
The languages of Ngaanyatjarraku
8 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.
- 01969+2.1%
- 02109-38.8%
- 035
- 044
- 053
- 060-100%
- 070-100%
- 080-100%
Fastest-growing among us
Ngaanyatjarra
+2.1% since last census
We share this portrait because Ngaanyatjarraku is, genuinely, not an “average” council — the share here is 4.8 times the Western Australia figure. 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.
Ngaanyatjarra grew 2.1% since the last census, to 969 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
1.4% of us were born overseas, across 6 countries.
- 01New Zealand13-58.1%
- 02England3-66.7%
- 03Zimbabwe3
- 04Germany0-100%
- 05Ireland0-100%
- 06Singapore0-100%
What we believe
Reported affiliation in Ngaanyatjarraku at the 2021 Census, with the change since 2016.
- 01Christianity487-29.9%
- 02No religion or secular beliefs376+159%
- 03Islam4-42.9%
- 04Buddhism0-100%
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.
- WanarnTop language — Ngaanyatjarra90%94
- MantamaruTop language — Ngaanyatjarra89%101
- PapulankutjaTop language — Ngaanyatjarra85%139
- WarakurnaTop language — Ngaanyatjarra84%158
- IrrunytjuTop language — Pitjantjatjara81%105
- Warburton (WA)Top language — Ngaanyatjarra79%505
- 6 suburbs in Ngaanyatjarraku. Percentage is residents speaking a language other than English at home; the figure beneath it is how many people that is.
Where we are
Ngaanyatjarraku 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
- Ngaanyatjarraku
- 82.3%
- Western Australia
- 17.3%
- Australia
- 21.3%
82.3% of Ngaanyatjarraku 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. 82.3% is 1,102 residents as a share of all 1,339 of us. A further 108 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 90.4%, which is a larger number and a weaker claim. Measured only across the residents who answered, the share is 89.5%. If you have seen a higher figure quoted for Ngaanyatjarraku, 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 Ngaanyatjarraku 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 Ngaanyatjarraku.