Table No. XI., SHOWING TOTALS of POPULATION in each FINANCIAL DIVISION of the COLONY according to the CENSUS of 1881, 1886, and 1891, respectively ; also in the QUINQUENNIAL and DECENNIAL PERIOD, INCREASE or DECREASE.
CENSUS, 1881. CENSUS, 1886. CENSUS, 1891. Five Years' Increase.* Ten Years' Increase.*
Districts. Persons. Districts. Persons. Districts. Persons. 1886-1891. 1881-1891.
NORTHERN DIVISION—
Bowen 1,539 Bowen 2,215 Bowen 2,788 573 1,249
Burke 1,246 Burke 2,416 5,117 Burke 4,962 8,636 3,519 7,390
Cloncurry 1,091 Cloncurry 1,211
Hughenden 1,610 Hughenden 2,463
Cook—Subdivisions 1 to 3SS 704 2,204 Cairns 4,650 9,982 Cairns 7,024 13,936 3,954 11,732
Cardwell 1,196 Cardwell 2,986 Cardwell 3,435
Woothakata—Part of Subdivision 3c 304 Herberton 2,346 Herberton 3,477
Cook—Subdivisions 4 to 9 2,949 Cook 5,389 Cook 5,080 - 309 2,131
Etheridge 1,042 Etheridge 1,023 Etheridge 1,761 738 719
Kennedy—Subdivisions part of 1 and 2 to 8 7,268 Kennedy—Subdivisions 1, 1A, 2 to 9, 10A 13,067 Kennedy—Subdivisions 1, 2 to 9, 10A, 11 18,615 5,548 11,347
Mackay 5,787 Mackay 11,082 Mackay 10,538 - 544 4,751
Palmer 5,574 Palmer 1,306 Palmer 838 - 468 - 4736
Somerset 673 Somerset 1,223 Somerset 1,470 247 797
Townsville 5,140 Townsville 11,486 Townsville 13,016 1,530 7,876
Woothakata—Subdivisions 1 to 3B, part 3c 1,492 Woothakata 636 Woothakata 1,399 763 -93
Population, Northern Division, Census 1881 34,914 Population, Northern Division, Census 1886 62,526 Population, Northern Division, Census 1891 78,077 15,551 43,163
CENTRAL DIVISION—
Aramac—Subdivisions part 1, part 2, 3, 3SS, part 4, 5 1,376 1,938 Aramac—Subdivisions 1 to 3A, part 4, 5 2,445 Aramac 2,765 320 827
Marathon—Subdivision part 1 562
Aramac—Subdivisions part 1, part 2 21 1,212 Aramac—Subdivision part 4 43 2,819
Blackall—Subdivisions 2 to 4 1,191 Blackall 2,710 Blackall—Subdivision 1 to 3, 3SSB, 4 and 4SS 4,475 1,656 3,263
Tambo—Subdivision part 1 66
Bundaberg—Subdivision part 7 20 62 Bundaberg—Subdivisions 11SS, part 11 79 Bundaberg—Subdivision 11A 300 221 238
Gladstone—Subdivision part 4 42
Clermont—Subdivisions 1 to 3, part 4, 4A to 7 5,524 Clermont—Subdivisions 1 to 7, part 8 4,842 Clermont 5,288 446 -236
Diamantina—Subdivisions part 1, part 2A, part 2B, 3A, part 3B 457 470 Diamantina—Subdivisions 1, 2, part 3, part 4 1,123 1,150 Diamantina—Subdivisions 1 to 6SS 984 - 166 514
Marathon—Subdivisions part 2 13 Marathon—Subdivision part 2A 27
Gladstone—Subdivisions 1 to 3, part 4 1,590 Gladstone 1,764 Gladstone 3,306 1,542 1,716
Kennedy—Subdivision part 1 Nil 98 Kennedy—Subdivisions 1SS, part 10, 10AA 287 Kennedy—Subdivisions 1A and 10 210 - 77 112
Aramac—Subdivision part 4 98
Leichhardt—Subdivisions 2 and 3 681 Leichhardt 1,093 Leichhardt 4,268 3,175 3,587
Aramac—Subdivisions part 4 5 649 Kennedy—Subdivision part 10 7 1,923 Marathon 1,991 68 1,342
Marathon—Subdivisions part 1, part 2, 3 644 Marathon—Subdivisions 1, 2, part 2A, 3, 3A 1,916
Peak Downs—Subdivisions part 1, 2, part 3 258 Peak Downs 333 Peak Downs 313 - 20 55
Rockhampton 7,431 Rockhampton 10,793 Rockhampton 11,629 836 4,198
Peak Downs—Subdivision part 3 29 828
St. Lawrence 799 St. Lawrence 1,136 St. Lawrence 967 - 169 139
Clermont—Subdivision part 4 20 1,881 Clermont—Subdivision part 3 18 1,928
Leichhardt—Subdivision 1 277
Peak Downs—Subdivision part 1 146 Springsure 1,910 Springsure 1,887 - 41 6
Springsure 1,438
Blackall—Subdivision 1 461 Tambo—Subdivision part 1 770 Tambo—Subdivision 1 728 - 42 267
Westwood 4,589 Westwood 6,615 Westwood 7,746 1,131 3,157
Population, Central Division, Census 1881 27,672 Population, Central Division, Census 1886 37,977 Population, Central Division, Census 1891 46,857 8,880 19,185
Carried forward 62,586 Carried forward 100,503 Carried forward 124,934 24,431 62,348