94 per cent.
Nearly 94 in every 100 East Arnhem residents speak a language other than English at home. It is among the highest shares of any council in Northern Territory.
Djambarrpuyngu is spoken by 3,747 of our residents at home, 54.1% of the council.
Dhuwaya is spoken by 150 of our residents at home, 2.2% of the council.
Gumatj is spoken by 91 of our residents at home, 1.3% of the council.
42 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 East Arnhem is, genuinely, not like an "average" council. Services designed for the median Northern Territory 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.
94.2% of East Arnhem residents speak a language other than English at home, against 40.9% for Northern Territory and 27.3% nationally. Drawn from the 2021 census.