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We are Victoria Daly

65 per cent.

Nearly 65 in every 100 Victoria Daly residents speak a language other than English at home. It is among the highest shares of any council in Northern Territory.

Our population
2,945
Speak another language
1,919
Languages at home
15+
Growth since last census
+72.5%
Our neighbourhoods run in Gurindji, Kriol and Ngarinyman as readily as they do in English. 2k 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 Victoria Daly has held through successive censuses.
What makes our community ours
Gurindji
501 speakers

Gurindji is spoken by 501 of our residents at home, 17.0% of the council.

Kriol
324 speakers

Kriol is spoken by 324 of our residents at home, 11.0% of the council.

Ngarinyman
272 speakers

Ngarinyman is spoken by 272 of our residents at home, 9.2% of the council.

The languages of Victoria Daly

29 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.

Gurindji
501 · +46.1%
Kriol
324 · +1.9%
Ngarinyman
272 · +45.5%
Ngaliwurru
84
Bilinarra
Aboriginal English, so described
55
Ngan'gikurunggurr
35
Wagiman
24
Malngin
16
French
16
Mayali
Western Arrarnta
Murrinh Patha
Spanish
Kunwinjku
GROWTH ≥ 50%
≥ 20%
≥ 5%
≥ 0%
≥ -10%
DECLINING
  1. 01
    Gurindji501 · 17.0%
    46.1%
  2. 02
    Kriol324 · 11.0%
    1.9%
  3. 03
    Ngarinyman272 · 9.2%
    45.5%
  4. 04
    Ngaliwurru84 · 2.9%
    281.8%
  5. 05
    Bilinarra61 · 2.1%
    74.3%
  6. 06
    Aboriginal English, so described55 · 1.9%
    400.0%
  7. 07
    Ngan'gikurunggurr35 · 1.2%
    169.2%
  8. 08
    Wagiman24 · 0.8%
    26.3%
  9. 09
    Malngin16 · 0.5%
    220.0%
  10. 10
    French16 · 0.5%
    433.3%
  11. 11
    Mayali15 · 0.5%
    25.0%
  12. 12
    Western Arrarnta10 · 0.3%
    0.0%
Fastest-growing among us
French
+433.3% since last census

We share this portrait because Victoria Daly 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 suburbs
Where we are
In context
Victoria Daly
65.2%
Northern Territory
40.9%
Australia
27.3%

65.2% of Victoria Daly residents speak a language other than English at home, against 40.9% for Northern Territory and 27.3% nationally. Drawn from the 2021 census.