3.6% ▲ +77.5%
Lower than 71% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 2.0%
- 2016: 3.6%
- 2021: 3.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Brewarrina · Council (LGA)
Language in Brewarrina
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant language for 80.7% of people in Brewarrina. This is a far more linguistically uniform area than most of the state, with very few residents speaking a language other than English at home.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 3.6% of people use another language at home, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 26.6%. Consistent with this, the proportion of people who speak little or no English is much lower than most areas at just 0.2%.
0.2% ▲ +21.8%
Lower than 78% of council (lga) areas.
- 2016: 0.2%
- 2021: 0.2%
Share of people who use another language at home and speak English not well or not at all. No 2011 figure — that census only asked proficiency of overseas-born residents.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Brewarrina [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA11200/brewarrina/topic/language