68 per cent.
Nearly 68 in every 100 Maralinga Tjarutja 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 64 of our residents at home, 49.2% of the council.
1 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 Maralinga Tjarutja 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.
68.5% of Maralinga Tjarutja residents speak a language other than English at home, against 20.5% for South Australia and 27.3% nationally. Drawn from the 2021 census.