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We are Ceduna

We are Ceduna.

Home to one of the larger Pitjantjatjara-speaking communities in South Australia, and 10 other language communities besides.

Our population
2,933
Speak another language
499
Languages at home
11+
Growth since last census
+71.1%
11 languages are spoken at home in Ceduna. Pitjantjatjara leads (60 speakers), with Greek close behind (35). 17 per cent of us speak a language other than English at home. That is the measure of a community that has not left its languages behind.
speak Pitjantjatjara at home
60
Our largest community language, Pitjantjatjara, is spoken by 2.0% of Ceduna residents at home.
What makes our community ours
Pitjantjatjara
60 speakers

60 speakers, 2.0% of Ceduna. +62% since 2021.

Greek
35 speakers

35 speakers, 1.2% of Ceduna. -35% since 2021.

Punjabi
22 speakers

22 speakers, 0.8% of Ceduna.

The languages of Ceduna

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.

Pitjantjatjara
60 · +62.2%
Greek
35 · -35.2%
Punjabi
22 · 0.0%
Malayalam
15 · +400.0%
Aboriginal English, so described
10 · +100.0%
Korean
8 · -33.3%
Kukatha
7 · 0.0%
Telugu
6 · +50.0%
Nungali
5
Mandarin
5
Gujarati
4
GROWTH ≥ 50%
≥ 20%
≥ 5%
≥ 0%
≥ -10%
DECLINING
  1. 01
    Pitjantjatjara60 · 2.0%
    62.2%
  2. 02
    Greek35 · 1.2%
    35.2%
  3. 03
    Punjabi22 · 0.8%
    0.0%
  4. 04
    Malayalam15 · 0.5%
    400.0%
  5. 05
    Aboriginal English, so described10 · 0.3%
    100.0%
  6. 06
    Korean8 · 0.3%
    33.3%
  7. 07
    Kukatha7 · 0.2%
    0.0%
  8. 08
    Telugu6 · 0.2%
    50.0%
  9. 09
    Nungali5 · 0.2%
    0.0%
  10. 10
    Mandarin5 · 0.2%
    0.0%
  11. 11
    Gujarati4 · 0.1%
    0.0%
Fastest-growing among us
Malayalam
+400.0% since last census

We publish this so our residents can see themselves counted, and so the agencies, funders and neighbours who serve us can see who we actually serve. Language access is not a translation line-item in our budget. It is how an emergency notice reaches a grandparent, how an enrolment form is understood, and how a health campaign actually lands in the suburbs that make up our council.

Our suburbs

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.

Where we are
In context
Ceduna
17.0%
South Australia
21.5%
Australia
27.1%

17.0% of Ceduna residents speak a language other than English at home, against 21.5% for South Australia and 27.1% nationally. Drawn from the 2021 census.