2.4% ▲ +60.6%
Lower than 86% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 1.5%
- 2016: 1.8%
- 2021: 2.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Narrabri · Council (LGA)
Language in Narrabri
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Only 2.4% of people in Narrabri use a language other than English at home, which is far below the national figure. This makes the area much less linguistically diverse than most other parts of Australia. The vast majority of the community speaks only English.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken by 86.9% of residents, and only 0.3% of the population speak little or no English. While the proportion of people using another language rose slightly to 2.4% since 2011, this remains well below the New South Wales average.
0.3% ▲ +62.4%
Lower than 69% of council (lga) areas.
- 2016: 0.2%
- 2021: 0.3%
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 Narrabri [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA15750/narrabri/topic/language