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We are Pormpuraaw

64 per cent.

Nearly 64 in every 100 Pormpuraaw residents speak a language other than English at home. It is among the highest shares of any council in Queensland.

Our population
604
Speak another language
387
Languages at home
4+
Growth since last census
-26.1%
Our neighbourhoods run in Kuuk Thayorre, Wik Mungkan and Meriam Mir as readily as they do in English. 0k 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 Pormpuraaw has held through successive censuses.
What makes our community ours
Kuuk Thayorre
162 speakers

Kuuk Thayorre is spoken by 162 of our residents at home, 26.8% of the council.

Wik Mungkan
93 speakers

Wik Mungkan is spoken by 93 of our residents at home, 15.4% of the council.

Meriam Mir
7 speakers

Meriam Mir is spoken by 7 of our residents at home, 1.2% of the council.

The languages of Pormpuraaw

4 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.

Kuuk Thayorre
162 · -18.2%
Wik Mungkan
93 · -51.8%
Meriam Mir
Aboriginal English, so described
GROWTH ≥ 50%
≥ 20%
≥ 5%
≥ 0%
≥ -10%
DECLINING
  1. 01
    Kuuk Thayorre162 · 26.8%
    ▼18.2%
  2. 02
    Wik Mungkan93 · 15.4%
    ▼51.8%
  3. 03
    Meriam Mir7 · 1.2%
    ▲133.3%
  4. 04
    Aboriginal English, so described6 · 1.0%
    ▲0.0%
Fastest-growing among us
Meriam Mir
+133.3% since last census

We share this portrait because Pormpuraaw 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.

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.

Pormpuraaw
Top language · Kuuk Thayorre
65%
597
Where we are
In context
Pormpuraaw
64.1%
Queensland
15.8%
Australia
27.3%

64.1% of Pormpuraaw residents speak a language other than English at home, against 15.8% for Queensland and 27.3% nationally. Drawn from the 2021 census.