3.5% ▲ +37.0%
Lower than 53% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.5%
- 2016: 2.8%
- 2021: 3.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Barraba · Urban Centre
Language in Barraba
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far lower share of people speak a language other than English in Barraba compared to the rest of the country. Only 3.5% of residents use another language at home, which is a huge gap when compared to the national figure of 22.3%. This highlights a community where English is the overwhelming primary language.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is used by 88.4% of the population, and the 3.5% who speak another language at home is a small increase from 2.5% in 2011. Very few people struggle with the local tongue, as only 0.4% speak little or no English, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 4.5%.
0.4% ▲ +50.1%
Higher than 58% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 0.3%
- 2021: 0.4%
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 Barraba [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115010/barraba/topic/language