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We are Mornington

We are Mornington.

Home to one of the larger Lardil-speaking communities in Queensland, and 7 other language communities besides.

Our population
1,026
Speak another language
454
Languages at home
8+
Growth since last census
+415.4%
8 languages are spoken at home in Mornington. Lardil leads (276 speakers), with Kayardild close behind (44). 44 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 Lardil at home
276
Our largest community language, Lardil, is spoken by 26.9% of Mornington residents at home.
What makes our community ours
Lardil
276 speakers

276 speakers, 26.9% of Mornington. +402% since 2021.

Kayardild
44 speakers

44 speakers, 4.3% of Mornington. +529% since 2021.

Maori (New Zealand)
7 speakers

7 speakers, 0.7% of Mornington.

The languages of Mornington

8 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.

Lardil
276 · +401.8%
Kayardild
44 · +528.6%
Maori (New Zealand)
Garrwa
Waanyi
Fijian
Wik Mungkan
French
GROWTH ≥ 50%
≥ 20%
≥ 5%
≥ 0%
≥ -10%
DECLINING
  1. 01
    Lardil276 · 26.9%
    401.8%
  2. 02
    Kayardild44 · 4.3%
    528.6%
  3. 03
    Maori (New Zealand)7 · 0.7%
    0.0%
  4. 04
    Garrwa6 · 0.6%
    0.0%
  5. 05
    Waanyi4 · 0.4%
    0.0%
  6. 06
    Fijian4 · 0.4%
    0.0%
  7. 07
    Wik Mungkan3 · 0.3%
    0.0%
  8. 08
    French3 · 0.3%
    0.0%
Fastest-growing among us
Kayardild
+528.6% 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
Mornington
44.2%
Queensland
15.8%
Australia
27.3%

44.2% of Mornington residents speak a language other than English at home, against 15.8% for Queensland and 27.3% nationally. Drawn from the 2021 census.