In the 2021 Australian census, there were 7,070 people registered in the town. Of these, nearly a quarter identified as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander. Around 70 per cent of the population were born in Australia. Long before the arrival of the British colonists, the Aboriginal people made use of the hot springs.
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BAMM: Bank Art Museum Moree, until 2018 known as Moree Plains Gallery, holds a significant collection of Aboriginal art. It was established and run by Moree Plains Shire Council until 2018, when the Moree Cultural Art Foundation took over management of the gallery.
It also holds a series of photographs of people from the two Moree missions, called A common place: Portraits of Moree Murries, created in 1990 by Michael Riley, an Indigenous artist. His mother grew up on one of the missions.
Climate
Moree possesses a semi-arid-influenced humid subtropical climate (Köppen: Cfa), with very hot, sometimes humid summers and mild, dry winters with cool nights. Average maxima vary from in January to in July, while average minima from in January to in July.
Mean annual rainfall is moderately low at and is spread across 52.6 rainy days, peaking in the summer months with severe thunderstorms.
The town is very sunny, experiencing 155.2 clear days with 3,316.8 sun hours annually. Extreme temperatures have ranged from on 3 January 2014 and on 12 February 2017 to on 2 July 2002.