4.7% ▲ +79.9%
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.6%
- 2016: 2.9%
- 2021: 4.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Brewarrina · Suburb / Locality
Language in Brewarrina
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant language for the vast majority of people in Brewarrina, where only 4.7% of residents use another language at home. While this is higher than in many similar areas, it remains far below the national figure of 22.3%. Daily life here is overwhelmingly English-speaking, with very few residents facing significant language barriers.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 80.9% of people speak only English, and those who speak little or no English make up just 0.3% of the population. This is higher than most similar areas, but still well below the New South Wales figure of 4.5%.
0.3% ▲ +22.8%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.3%
- 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 Brewarrina [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10560/brewarrina/topic/language