4.7% ▲ +385.4%
Higher than 63% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.0%
- 2016: 4.8%
- 2021: 4.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Dinner Plain · Urban Centre
Language in Dinner Plain
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More people in Dinner Plain speak a language other than English at home than in most similar areas. While the typical resident only speaks English, the proportion of people using another language at home has risen to 4.7%. This is still far below the figures for Victoria and Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken by 78.7% of the population, while 6.3% use Mandarin. Despite the increase in diverse languages, no one in the area speaks little or no English, which is well below the national figure.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 Dinner Plain [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL222018/dinner-plain/topic/language