We are Victoria Daly

55 per cent.

Nearly 55 in every 100 Victoria Daly residents speak a language other than English at home. It is among the highest shares of any council in Northern Territory.

Our population
2,776
Speak another language
1,516
Languages at home
36
Growth since last census
+14.2%

Gurindji, Kriol and Ngarinyman are spoken here in numbers that shape how the place works. 1,516 of us — 54.6% — speak a language other than English at home, so an English-only notice reaches barely half the households it was addressed to.

In Northern Territory

#10

of 18 Northern Territory councils for the share of residents speaking a language other than English at home. #26 of 540 nationally.

What makes our community ours

Gurindji

501 speakers

Gurindji is spoken by 501 of our residents at home, 18.0% of Victoria Daly.

Kriol

324 speakers

Kriol is spoken by 324 of our residents at home, 11.7% of Victoria Daly.

Ngarinyman

272 speakers

Ngarinyman is spoken by 272 of our residents at home, 9.8% of Victoria Daly.

The languages of Victoria Daly

36 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 18 most spoken languages in Victoria Daly, covering 1,447 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
    Gurindji
    501+46.1%
  2. 02
    Kriol
    324+1.9%
  3. 03
    Ngarinyman
    272+45.5%
  4. 04
    Ngaliwurru
    84+282%
  5. 05
    Bilinarra
    61+74.3%
  6. 06
    Aboriginal English, so described
    55+400%
  7. 07
    Ngan'gikurunggurr
    35+169%
  8. 08
    Wagiman
    24+26.3%
  9. 09
    Malngin
    16+220%
  10. 10
    Mayali
    15+25.0%

Fastest-growing among us

Gurindji

+46.1% since last census

We share this portrait because Victoria Daly is, genuinely, not an “average” council — the share here is 1.7 times the Northern Territory figure. Services designed for the median Northern Territory 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.

Gurindji grew 46.1% since the last census, to 501 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

3.2% of us were born overseas, across 13 countries.

  1. 01
    New Zealand
    35+218%
  2. 02
    England
    8-50.0%
  3. 03
    Germany
    8
  4. 04
    Indonesia
    7+40.0%
  5. 05
    Philippines
    6+100%
  6. 06
    France
    5
  7. 07
    India
    4-42.9%
  8. 08
    South Africa
    4
  9. 09
    China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)
    4
  10. 10
    Mauritius
    4

What we believe

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

  1. 01
    Christianity
    1,600+56.3%
  2. 02
    No religion or secular beliefs
    749+47.7%
  3. 03
    Buddhism
    5-75.0%
  4. 04
    Hinduism
    3
  5. 05
    Islam
    0-100%

Our suburbs

Our linguistic character changes street by street. Click through to any of our 12 suburbs for its own portrait: the languages spoken there, the communities calling it home.

Where we are

Victoria Daly 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

Victoria Daly
54.6%
Northern Territory
32.1%
Australia
21.3%

54.6% of Victoria Daly residents speak a language other than English at home, against 32.1% for Northern Territory 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. 54.6% is 1,516 residents as a share of all 2,776 of us. A further 327 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 66.4%, which is a larger number and a weaker claim. Measured only across the residents who answered, the share is 61.9%. If you have seen a higher figure quoted for Victoria Daly, 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 Victoria Daly 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 Victoria Daly.