89 per cent.
Nearly 89 in every 100 Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara residents speak a language other than English at home. It is among the highest shares of any council in South Australia.
Pitjantjatjara is spoken by 1,597 of our residents at home, 69.5% of the council.
Yankunytjatjara is spoken by 248 of our residents at home, 10.8% of the council.
Warlpiri is spoken by 22 of our residents at home, 1.0% of the council.
11 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.
We share this portrait because Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara is, genuinely, not like an "average" council. Services designed for the median South Australia resident arrive here in the wrong language. This Atlas exists so nobody writing policy about us, federal, state, corporate or media, can claim they did not know.
Our linguistic character changes street by street. Click through to any suburb for its own portrait: the languages spoken there, the communities calling it home.
89.1% of Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara residents speak a language other than English at home, against 20.5% for South Australia and 27.3% nationally. Drawn from the 2021 census.