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We are Hope Vale

67 per cent.

Nearly 67 in every 100 Hope Vale residents speak a language other than English at home. It is among the highest shares of any council in Queensland.

Our population
963
Speak another language
645
Languages at home
2+
Growth since last census
-7.7%
Our neighbourhoods run in Guugu Yimidhirr, Kuku Yalanji as readily as they do in English. 1k of us speak a language other than English at home, a higher share than almost anywhere else in the country.
locally
#1
for share of residents speaking a language other than English at home, a ranking Hope Vale has held through successive censuses.
What makes our community ours
Guugu Yimidhirr
555 speakers

Guugu Yimidhirr is spoken by 555 of our residents at home, 57.6% of the council.

Kuku Yalanji
14 speakers

Kuku Yalanji is spoken by 14 of our residents at home, 1.5% of the council.

The languages of Hope Vale

2 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.

Guugu Yimidhirr
555 · -17.2%
Kuku Yalanji
GROWTH ≥ 50%
≥ 20%
≥ 5%
≥ 0%
≥ -10%
DECLINING
  1. 01
    Guugu Yimidhirr555 · 57.6%
    ▼17.2%
  2. 02
    Kuku Yalanji14 · 1.5%
    ▲366.7%
Fastest-growing among us
Kuku Yalanji
+366.7% since last census

We share this portrait because Hope Vale 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.

In context
Hope Vale
67.0%
Queensland
15.8%
Australia
27.3%

67.0% of Hope Vale residents speak a language other than English at home, against 15.8% for Queensland and 27.3% nationally. Drawn from the 2021 census.