54.2% ▲ +7.0%
Higher than 98% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 50.6%
- 2016: 51.0%
- 2021: 54.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Plumpton · Suburb / Locality
Language in Plumpton
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A gap of 32 percentage points separates Plumpton from the national average in language diversity. More than half the population speaks a language other than English at home, making it one of the most linguistically diverse areas of its kind. This creates a community where English is the primary language for only 40.5% of residents.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Around 54.2% of people use another language at home, which is far above the New South Wales figure of 26.6%. Tagalog is the most common non-English language at 10.9%, followed by Hindi at 6.4%, while about 5% of residents speak little or no English.
5.0% ▲ +2.1%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 4.9%
- 2021: 5.0%
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 Plumpton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13242/plumpton/topic/language