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We are Moree Plains

We are Moree Plains.

Home to one of the larger Gamilaraay-speaking communities in New South Wales, and 33 other language communities besides.

Our population
12,501
Speak another language
3,012
Languages at home
15+
Growth since last census
+240.6%
34 languages are spoken at home in Moree Plains. Gamilaraay leads (50 speakers), with Filipino close behind (27). 24 per cent of us speak a language other than English at home. That is the measure of a community that has not left its languages behind.
speak Gamilaraay at home
50
Our largest community language, Gamilaraay, is spoken by 0.4% of Moree Plains residents at home.
What makes our community ours
Gamilaraay
50 speakers

50 speakers, 0.4% of Moree Plains. +1150% since 2021.

Filipino
27 speakers

27 speakers, 0.2% of Moree Plains. +350% since 2021.

Nepali
24 speakers

24 speakers, 0.2% of Moree Plains.

The languages of Moree Plains

34 languages carry the conversation at home. Every one of them is spoken here.

Each block below is scaled to the number of people who speak that language at home, and tinted by how fast that community has grown since the last census.

Gamilaraay
50 · +1150.0%
Filipino
27 · +350.0%
Nepali
24 · 0.0%
Cantonese
23 · +109.1%
Thai
22 · +57.1%
Serbian
19 · -34.5%
Afrikaans
17 · -34.6%
Malayalam
17 · +21.4%
Indonesian
17 · 0.0%
Fijian
16 · +14.3%
Tagalog
13 · -56.7%
Mandarin
13 · -55.2%
Vietnamese
13 · 0.0%
German
10 · 0.0%
Greek
9 · 0.0%
GROWTH ≥ 50%
≥ 20%
≥ 5%
≥ 0%
≥ -10%
DECLINING
  1. 01
    Gamilaraay50 · 0.4%
    1150.0%
  2. 02
    Filipino27 · 0.2%
    350.0%
  3. 03
    Nepali24 · 0.2%
    0.0%
  4. 04
    Cantonese23 · 0.2%
    109.1%
  5. 05
    Thai22 · 0.2%
    57.1%
  6. 06
    Serbian19 · 0.2%
    34.5%
  7. 07
    Afrikaans17 · 0.1%
    34.6%
  8. 08
    Malayalam17 · 0.1%
    21.4%
  9. 09
    Indonesian17 · 0.1%
    0.0%
  10. 10
    Fijian16 · 0.1%
    14.3%
  11. 11
    Tagalog13 · 0.1%
    56.7%
  12. 12
    Mandarin13 · 0.1%
    55.2%
Fastest-growing among us
Gamilaraay
+1150.0% since last census

We publish this so our residents can see themselves counted, and so the agencies, funders and neighbours who serve us can see who we actually serve. Language access is not a translation line-item in our budget. It is how an emergency notice reaches a grandparent, how an enrolment form is understood, and how a health campaign actually lands in the suburbs that make up our council.

Our suburbs
Where we are
In context
Moree Plains
24.1%
New South Wales
31.4%
Australia
27.3%

24.1% of Moree Plains residents speak a language other than English at home, against 31.4% for New South Wales and 27.3% nationally. Drawn from the 2021 census.