Chom Kre and Luy have a 95,000 population, inhabiting mainly the western part of Quang Ngai and Binh Dinh provinces. They believe in theism and conceive that there is a system of supernatural power including various spirits. They grew wet rice very early, and farm techniques are the same as those used in the south central delta plain.
Animal husbandry is mainly to provide offerings for ceremonies.
Buffaloes are also used to draw ploughs and harrows on the ricefields. Basketry and waving are fairly well developed, but weaving has declined. Formerly, males wore loincloths and waist-deep vests or remained naked to the waist with turbans as headgear. Both males and females wear their hair in buns decorated with a hairpin or a bird feather. Nowadays the Hre dress in the Kinh style but their headgear remains unchanged.