TABLE I., AREA in ACRES, CROWN LANDS ALIENATED, and POPULATION in the Counties and Pastoral Districts of VICTORIA in 1851 and 1854 ; also the PROPORTION of ACRES ALIENATED to each Person in 1854. (Population Enumerated 26th April. 1854.)
COUNTIES AND PASTORAL DISTRICTS. LAND. POPULATION.
Area in Statute Acres. Acres alienated to 30th June, 1854. Average number of Acres alienated to each Person. Persons. Persons. Males. Females. Sex not Specified.
1851. 1854. 1854. 1854. 1854.
ANGLESEY 1,139,200 2,841 4.79 767 593 378 215 0
BOURKE (including Melbourne) 979,200 487,122 4.82 39,962 101,086 59,553 41,527 6
DALHOUSIE 758,400 38,648 6.22 3,045 6,212 4,174 2,036 2
DUNDAS 1,280,000 8,134 6.05 1,466 1,345 845 500 0
EVELYN 659,200 25,936 21.35 644 1,215 701 514 0
FOLLETT 665,600 2,467 6.48 291 381 214 167 0
GIPPS' LAND(District) 9,232,640 34,289 17.53 1,789 1,956 1,245 711 0
GRANT 1,088,000 232,145 7.06 12,784 32,889 19,549 13,331 9
GRENVILLE 940,800 17,626 2.05 400 8,604 6,321 2,282 1
HAMPDEN 908,800 33,113 36.83 971 899 557 342 0
HEYTESBURY 742,400 10,059 28.66 343 351 220 131 0
LODDON(District) 3,895,040 9,815 0.34 27,126 21,382 5,743 1
MORNINGTON 1,152,000 73,175 53.33 885 1,372 897 475 0
MURRAY(District) 8,593,920 22,797 3.57 2,497 6,392 4,864 1,528 0
NORMANBY 1,228,800 33,728 8.60 2,125 3,921 1,974 1,947 0
POLWARTH 816,640 23,523 23.98 1,199 981 551 430 0
RIPON 1,168,000 11,977 9.44 814 1,269 900 369 0
RODNEY(unproclaimed County) 1,143,040 Included in the Return for the Loddon District. 0.34 194 1,557 1,244 313 0
TALBOT 764,160 16,351 1.01 1,163 16,244 12,021 4,220 3
VILLIERS 1,062,400 95,604 15.94 3,987 5,996 3,342 2,654 0
WIMMERA(District) 17,353,600 946 0.35 2,019 2,685 1,962 723 0
Total of Counties, &c., exclusive of Travellers and Shipping 77,345 223,074 142,894 80,158 22
Travellers on Roads 2,183 2,071 112 0
Travellers on the Gold Fields (computed) 6,554 6,206 348 0
Persons in Ships and Hulks 4,987 4,705 282 0
TOTAL, VICTORIA 55,571,840 1,180,296 5.00 77,345 236,798 155,876 80,900 22