4.2% ▲ +39.7%
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.0%
- 2016: 4.2%
- 2021: 4.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Moree · Suburb / Locality
Language in Moree
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant way of communicating in Moree, where only 4.2% of people use another language at home. This is far below the national figure of 22.3%, making the town much less linguistically diverse than most of Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken by 76.8% of residents, with Cantonese and Tagalog appearing as the next most common languages. While 0.3% of people speak little or no English—which is higher than most similar areas—this remains well below the national rate of 3.4%.
0.3% ▼ -34.3%
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.5%
- 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 Moree [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12733/moree/topic/language