Dinner Plain VIC 3898
589 addresses · 45 streets
Indi Electorate › Alpine LGA › Dinner Plain · 219 km from Melbourne
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Living Here
Dinner Plain is a suburb of Victoria, home to about 128 people, with a median age of 37. The typical household earns around $2,250 a week, with median rent near $269 a week. Most homes are houses. About 77% of households own their home and 23% rent. Most workers walk to work. Common community backgrounds include English, Australian, Scottish. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 9 of 10 nationally — a relatively advantaged area. The median house sells for about $1,097,500.
Over time — Census 2001 → 2021
Dashed line: district figures for the Bright - Mount Beauty statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Dinner Plain itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
1 café or restaurant
2 places to stay
Getting around. Airport: Mount Hotham Airport, 9 km east.
Socio-economic Standing
Deciles from 1 (lowest) to 10 (highest), against all Australian suburbs. The overall figure weighs advantage and disadvantage together; economic resources counts income and housing, and education & jobs counts qualifications and occupation. They often differ. Source: ABS SEIFA 2021.
Median Sale Prices
Median of recorded sales in the period, not a valuation. Source: Victorian Property Sales Report, Land Use Victoria.
Tree cover
🌳 Tree canopy: 71.8% share of land under canopy · satellite map, 2020

Green: 10 m cells where trees dominate, satellite 2021. Blue: water. The line is the suburb boundary.
| Canopy share, 1 m canopy height map, 2020 | 71.8% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 89.5% |
Demographics
Unemployment 3.3% · Labour-force participation 79.3%
Population by age in Dinner Plain
| 0-4 | 3 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 6 |
| 15-19 | 18 |
| 20-24 | 8 |
| 25-34 | 25 |
| 35-44 | 19 |
| 45-54 | 27 |
| 55-64 | 8 |
| 65-74 | 9 |
| 75-84 | 0 |
| 85+ | 0 |
Dwelling types in Dinner Plain
| House | 29 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 3 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Households by weekly income in Dinner Plain
| <$650 | 0 |
|---|---|
| $650-1,499 | 10 |
| $1,500-2,999 | 14 |
| $3,000+ | 14 |
Top ancestries in Dinner Plain
| English | 54 |
|---|---|
| Australian | 44 |
| Scottish | 15 |
| Irish | 13 |
| Ancestry NS | 11 |
| Italian | 8 |
Housing tenure in Dinner Plain
| Owned | 9 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 8 |
| Rented | 5 |
| Other | 0 |
Cars per household in Dinner Plain
| 0 | 3 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 11 |
| 2 | 10 |
| 3 | 5 |
| 4+ | 0 |
Commute to work in Dinner Plain
| Car | 20 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 0 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 31 |
| Bicycle | 0 |
| Home | 17 |
Top countries of birth in Dinner Plain
| New Zealand | 7 |
|---|---|
| England | 6 |
| Taiwan | 3 |
Languages used at home in Dinner Plain
| Mandarin | 8 |
|---|
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
1,464 bird observations recorded near Dinner Plain — most often seen:
- Flame Robin (141)
- Little Raven (116)
- Crimson Rosella (104)
- Red Wattlebird (80)
- Pied Currawong (78)
- Australian Magpie (69)
- White-throated Treecreeper (61)
- Grey Fantail (55)
- Brown Thornbill (51)
- Striated Pardalote (50)
- Gang-gang Cockatoo (46)
- White-browed Scrubwren (42)
- Yellow-faced Honeyeater (42)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Dinner Plain
- Fan-tailed Cuckoo (40)
- Grey Shrike-thrush (40)
- Grey Currawong (38)
- Silvereye (37)
- South-eastern Crimson Rosella (37)
- Common Starling (35)
- Australian Raven (34)
- Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike (32)
- Laughing Kookaburra (31)
- Masked Lapwing (30)
- White-eared Honeyeater (29)
- Striated Thornbill (28)
- Spotted Pardalote (27)
- South-eastern Yellow-faced Honeyeater (24)
- Eastern Australian Magpie (23)
- Emu (22)
- South-eastern White-throated Treecreeper (22)
Sightings reported by observers, not a survey, so the counts show what people record rather than what lives here. Source: Atlas of Living Australia.
Nearby Suburbs
The closest suburbs to Dinner Plain:
- Hotham Heights (9.3 km)
- Cobungra (17.2 km)
- Falls Creek (18 km)
- Anglers Rest (19.3 km)
- Shannonvale (19.3 km)
- Harrietville (21.6 km)
- Bogong (24.5 km)
- Glen Valley (25 km)
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Streets
- Big Muster Drive (137)
- Billy Button Lane (5)
- Bogong Lane (5)
- Brumby Lane (3)
- Burrinjuck Lane (14)
- Cattle Pen Drive (12)
- Cooee Lane (5)
- Crisp Hollow (6)
- Crystal Creek Lane (17)
- Cuff N Collar Lane (11)
- Devils Elbow (2)
- Drovers Lane (10)
- Drybone Lane (23)
- Geebung Road (25)
- Great Alpine Road (6)
- Halter Lane (39)
- Heritage Lane (9)
- Horsehair Bend (62)
- Horseshoe Circle (25)
- Jb Crook (7)
- Morning Star Lane (7)
- Mossy Corner (3)
- Mount Elizabeth Road (8)
- Park Lane (9)
- Reedy Creek Lane (9)
- Roney Macs Twist (17)
- School Road (1)
- Scrubbers End (3)
- Slippery Dip (8)
- Snow Pole Lane (5)
- Snowgum Lane (6)
- Sorrel Place (6)
- Squatters Lane (6)
- Stockwhip Lane (4)
- Stumpy Gully Lane (5)
- Sugarmat Lane (4)
- Sundew Lane (6)
- Tabletop Fork (14)
- Tea Bag Lane (6)
- Tower Road (9)
- Tussock Lane (5)
- Wildflower Bowl (6)
- Wire Plain Dash (4)
- Woollybutt Lane (8)
- Youngs Top (7)
