91 per cent.
Nearly 91 in every 100 Aurukun residents speak a language other than English at home. It is among the highest shares of any council in Queensland.
Wik Mungkan is spoken by 776 of our residents at home, 70.9% of the council.
Yumplatok (Torres Strait Creole) is spoken by 11 of our residents at home, 1.0% of the council.
Dutch is spoken by 4 of our residents at home, 0.4% of the council.
3 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 Aurukun is, genuinely, not like an "average" council. Services designed for the median Queensland 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.
90.7% of Aurukun residents speak a language other than English at home, against 15.8% for Queensland and 27.3% nationally. Drawn from the 2021 census.