Population
The 2006 ABS Census indicated that the region's 1,335 residents comprised 46.9% males and 87.3% Indigenous Australians.
Like other indigenous Australian communities in the Outback, the Ngaanyatjarraku community has a greater proportion of younger people than the overall Australian population and a lesser proportion of older people, reflected by the median age of 27 years of age compared with 37 Australia-wide.
Some other statistics:
- 98.8% are Australian citizens(compared with 86.1% nationwide)
- 65.9% speak Ngaanyatjarra at home (cf 0.0006% nw) - 880 of the 1000 speakers of this language live in this LGA
- 18.8% speak English only at home (cf 78.5% nw)
- 26.3% affiliate with the Churches of Christ (0.3% nw)
- median weekly income is $196 per week (cf $466/wk nw)
- median family income is $452 per week (cf $1,171/wk nw)
- 32.0% single-parent families (cf 15.8% nw)
- 4.1 persons in average household size (cf 2.6 nw)
- 94.2% renting (cf 27.2% nw)
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