As of July 2023, the municipality had a population of 762 and an area of .
Plaus is one of the three municipalities of South Tyrol whose name remained unchanged by the early 20th century
renaming programme which aimed at replacing mostly German
place names with
Italianised versions, the other two being
Gais and
Lana. Plaus borders the following municipalities:
Algund,
Naturns and
Partschins. ==History==