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Northern Peninsula Area, Queensland

First Nations and other languages in Northern Peninsula Area

Yumplatok (Torres Strait Creole) is the most widely spoken First Nations language in Northern Peninsula Area, where about 2,000 people speak a language other than English at home, according to the 2021 Census. Yumplatok (Torres Strait Creole) has more than doubled since 2016. Measured against Brisbane, Northern Peninsula Area's share is more than three times as high.

Residents
2,777
Speak another language
2,015
Languages at home
10
Change since 2016
−9.2%

Which First Nations languages are spoken in Northern Peninsula Area?

3 First Nations languages have speakers here, led by Yumplatok (Torres Strait Creole), Kalaw Kawaw Ya/Kalaw Lagaw Ya and Aboriginal English, so described. Together they account for nearly four in five of those who speak a language other than English. The census couldn't name the language for another about 420 people, which it files under broad ABS categories.

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 does Northern Peninsula Area's language picture differ from Australia as a whole?

Northern Peninsula Area has more than three times the rate of other-language speakers found nationally. Among Queensland councils, Northern Peninsula Area ranks 62nd.

Northern Peninsula Area
72.6%
Australia
21.3%
Brisbane
22.8%

Each bar uses the same count: residents who named another home language, over all residents.

Every council ranked, Northern Peninsula Area included.

What are all the languages spoken in Northern Peninsula Area?

The chip beside each count is the change since 2016. Totals include broad ABS categories like "Chinese, nfd" that the list leaves out.

Which other languages are spoken in Northern Peninsula Area?

Beyond First Nations languages, these are the largest.

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.

Indonesian

4 speakers

Used at home by fewer than one in 100 residents.

Fijian

4 speakers

About 0.1 per cent of all residents.

Which localities in Northern Peninsula Area have the most speakers of other languages?

The suburb names link through to their own figures.

Where does Northern Peninsula Area sit on the map of Australia's languages?

Northern Peninsula Area on the Language Map, shaded for residents who speak a multicultural languageany language other than English at home (ABS ASGS 2021 boundaries). View all councils.

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.

The headline 72.6% counts only residents who named a language other than English. 333 people left the question blank; treat every blank as another language and the figure is 84.6%, while measuring only those who answered gives 82.4%.

National totals here run slightly under ABS published figures, because summing suburbs misses people without a usual address. Broad ABS categories count in the totals but not in the ranked lists.

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