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We are Narrabri

We are Narrabri.

Home to one of the larger Korean-speaking communities in New South Wales, and 31 other language communities besides.

Our population
12,670
Speak another language
1,601
Languages at home
15+
Growth since last census
+70.6%
32 languages are spoken at home in Narrabri. Korean leads (26 speakers), with Nepali close behind (25). 13 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 Korean at home
26
Our largest community language, Korean, is spoken by 0.2% of Narrabri residents at home.
What makes our community ours
Korean
26 speakers

26 speakers, 0.2% of Narrabri.

Nepali
25 speakers

25 speakers, 0.2% of Narrabri. +67% since 2021.

Mandarin
25 speakers

25 speakers, 0.2% of Narrabri. +92% since 2021.

The languages of Narrabri

32 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.

Korean
26 · 0.0%
Nepali
25 · +66.7%
Mandarin
25 · +92.3%
Filipino
19 · +171.4%
Sinhalese
12 · -7.7%
Tamil
10 · 0.0%
French
9 · +200.0%
Gamilaraay
8 · 0.0%
Samoan
8 · 0.0%
Tagalog
7 · -46.2%
Dutch
7 · +75.0%
Afrikaans
6 · 0.0%
Hebrew
6 · 0.0%
Estonian
6 · 0.0%
Auslan
5 · 0.0%
GROWTH ≥ 50%
≥ 20%
≥ 5%
≥ 0%
≥ -10%
DECLINING
  1. 01
    Korean26 · 0.2%
    0.0%
  2. 02
    Nepali25 · 0.2%
    66.7%
  3. 03
    Mandarin25 · 0.2%
    92.3%
  4. 04
    Filipino19 · 0.1%
    171.4%
  5. 05
    Sinhalese12 · 0.1%
    7.7%
  6. 06
    Tamil10 · 0.1%
    0.0%
  7. 07
    French9 · 0.1%
    200.0%
  8. 08
    Gamilaraay8 · 0.1%
    0.0%
  9. 09
    Samoan8 · 0.1%
    0.0%
  10. 10
    Tagalog7 · 0.1%
    46.2%
  11. 11
    Dutch7 · 0.1%
    75.0%
  12. 12
    Afrikaans6 · 0.0%
    0.0%
Fastest-growing among us
French
+200.0% 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
Narrabri
12.6%
New South Wales
31.4%
Australia
27.3%

12.6% of Narrabri 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.