French
13 speakers
The community has more than tripled since 2016.
Victoria Daly, Northern Territory
First Nations and other languages in Victoria Daly
At the 2021 Census, more than one in two residents in Victoria Daly spoke a language other than English at home, and Gurindji was the leading First Nations language among them. Measured against Australia as a whole, Victoria Daly's share is about two and a half times as high.
- Residents
- 2,776
- Speak another language
- 1,516
- Languages at home
- 36
- Change since 2016
- +14.2%
How many people in Victoria Daly speak a First Nations language?
Gurindji is the largest, followed by Kriol and Ngarinyman. They're the home languages of most people here who don't speak English at home.
- 01501+46.1%
- 02324+1.9%
- 03272+45.5%
- 0484+282%
- 0561+74.3%
- 0655+400%
- 0735+169%
- 0824+26.3%
- 0916+220%
- 1015+25.0%
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 Victoria Daly compare with Darwin?
Victoria Daly runs ahead of Darwin on this measure. Victoria Daly is 12th of 18 across the Northern Territory.
- Victoria Daly
- 54.6%
- Darwin
- 29.4%
- Australia
- 21.3%
Every figure leaves unanswered questions out of the count, so the areas compare like for like.
Compare Victoria Daly with every council on the diversity index.
What are all the languages spoken in Victoria Daly?
Ten rows at a time, largest first. Anything the ABS couldn't pin to a single language is counted in the totals, not here.
- 01501+46.1%
- 02324+1.9%
- 03272+45.5%
- 0484+282%
- 0561+74.3%
- 0655+400%
- 0735+169%
- 0824+26.3%
- 0916+220%
- 1015+25.0%
Which other languages are spoken in Victoria Daly?
Of the other languages, these have the most speakers.
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.
How do the localities of Victoria Daly compare?
Open any suburb for its own language breakdown.
- DaguraguLed by Gurindji100%191
- YarralinLed by Ngarinyman87%234
- Pigeon HoleLed by Bilinarra81%102
- KalkarindjiLed by Gurindji77%301
- NauiyuLed by Kriol69%242
- Timber CreekLed by Ngaliwurru47%126
- BradshawLed by Ngaliwurru36%84
- BainesLed by Aboriginal English, so described33%77
- Pine Creek (NT)Led by Kriol31%98
- Victoria RiverLed by Ngarinyman18%24
- Buchanan (NT)Led by Malngin16%16
- Daly RiverLed by Kriol12%21
- 12 suburbs, ordered by the share speaking another language at home, with the head count underneath.
How does Victoria Daly look on the map?
Victoria Daly 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.
Figures come from the ABS Census of Population and Housing 2021 (language used at home), aggregated from Statistical Area Level 2 to Local Government Area, with 2016 for comparison.
The headline 54.6% counts only residents who named a language other than English. 327 people left the question blank; treat every blank as another language and the figure is 66.4%, while measuring only those who answered gives 61.9%.
Language lists name languages only; residual ABS groups are in the totals. Summed-suburb national totals run a little low.
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