13.5% ▲ +5.5%
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.8%
- 2016: 12.4%
- 2021: 13.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Plenty · Suburb / Locality
Language in Plenty
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Most residents in Plenty communicate using only English, though a small number of households use other languages daily. While 13.5% of people speak a language other than English at home, this is much higher than in most similar areas.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 83.9% of people, with Italian (3.3%) and Greek (1.7%) being the most common other tongues. Only 1.1% of people speak little or no English, which is well below the Victorian figure of 4.4%.
1.1% ▲ +10.9%
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.0%
- 2021: 1.1%
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 Plenty [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22084/plenty/topic/language