TABLE V. POPULATION and AGES of MALES and FEMALES on the GOLD FIELDS, and the Proportion per Cent. of each Age to the Total of Both Sexes. (Population Enumerated 26th April, 1854.)

DISTRICTS.	DIGGINGS.	ALL AGES.			Under 5 Years of Age.	5 and under 10.	10 and under 15.	15 and under 20.	20 and under 25.	25 and under 30.	30 and under 35.	35 and under 40.	40 and under 45.	45 and under 50.	50 and under 55.	55 and under 60.	60 and under 65.	65 and under 70.	70 and under 75.	75 and under 80.	80 and upwards.	Age not specified.
		Both Sexes.	Males and Females.
CASTLEMAINE	Mount Alexander, including Barker's Campbell's, Forest and Fryer's Creeks, &c., and Castlemaine Township	12129*	M	8,729	712	412	374	367	1,601	1,770	1,288	791	623	302	199	84	38	11	3	1	2	150
			F	3,398	653	383	221	239	527	506	349	227	127	69	30	12	8	1		1		45
CASTLEMAINE	Tarrengower (Maldon)	5,220	M	4,143	152	121	114	195	896	974	699	354	261	143	86	12	26	3	3	1		103
			F	1,077	179	113	58	71	188	170	116	84	41	17	11	7	2					20
CASTLEMAINE	Avoca	2,577	M	2,083	110	63	76	108	422	461	338	224	130	69	41	9	5	1	3			23
			F	494	104	60	37	28	87	57	53	23	27	7	7	1	1	1				1
CASTLEMAINE	Hepburn (Mount Franklin)	1,028	M	830	41	27	25	46	140	186	136	90	57	30	32	10	3	3	1	1		2
			F	198	46	13	21	14	30	27	18	11	9	4	2	3
CASTLEMAINE	Kerang and Kingower	1,122	M	924	24	17	21	40	197	223	156	108	55	30	20	7	3	2				21
			F	198	41	14	10	8	37	34	21	10	5	7	3	1						7
CASTLEMAINE	Amherst (Daisy Hill)	401	M	278	17	15	18	16	39	59	41	30	17	16	3	3	2					2
			F	123	19	22	13	7	15	9	15	10	6	2	3							2
SANDHURST	Including the Town and Borough of Sandhurst and the surrounding Gullies, &c.	15,480	M	12,212	560	346	335	648	2,408	2,636	1,961	1,175	672	341	241	72	40	16	12	3	2	744
			F	3,268	587	361	194	245	545	525	328	203	131	63	39	17	6	2	1			21
BALLAARAT	Including the Township, the Eureka, the Bald Hills, Creswick's Creek, Wardy Yallock, &c.	16684*	M	12,660	757	459	372	675	2,676	2,864	1,979	1,044	727	344	243	83	39	8	6	3	8	373
			F	4,023	701	457	283	278	683	612	419	223	185	75	42	16	6	4			1	38
BEECHWORTH	Including the Township, Reid's and Spring Creeks, Buckland, Snake Valley, and Yackandanda	3,339	M	2,746	99	87	84	139	621	573	426	235	206	130	78	21	16	9	1			21
			F	593	113	86	43	46	83	67	47	49	26	16	9	2	1					5
HEATHCOTE	Including Melvor, Waranga, and Moora	1,997	M	1,572	92	64	54	73	303	285	261	141	117	87	69	9	7	3				7
			F	425	71	51	29	25	70	59	44	39	21	8	7	1
OMEO		166	M	159	3		5	10	33	45	21	17	13	6	3	2	1
			F	7	1			3	3
Travellers	These consist of Prospecting Parties, from whom the Sub-enumerators could not obtain Returns, and of Persons who had gone off from the various Diggings between the distribution and collection of the Schedules, and who were known to be on the roads at the time. The estimate has been formed and checked to various data.	6,554	M	6,206																		6,206
			F	348																		348
TOTAL POPULATION OF THE GOLD FIELDS		66697*	M	52,542	2,568	1,611	1,478	2,317	9,336	10,076	7,306	4,209	2,878	*1498	1,015	312	180	56	29	9	12	7,652
			F	14,152	2,515	1,560	909	964	2,268	2,066	1,410	879	578	268	153	60	24	8	1	1	1	487
Males.—Proportion per Cent. of each Age to the Total of Both Sexes.				78.78	3.85	2.42	2.22	3.47	14.00	15.11	10.95	6.31	4.32	2.25	1.52	0.47	0.27	0.08	0.04	0.01	0.02	11.47
Females.—Proportion per Cent. of each Age to the Total of Both Sexes.				21.22	3.78	2.34	1.36	1.45	3.41	3.08	2.11	1.32	0.87	0.40	0.23	0.09	0.04	0.01	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.73
Both Sexes.—Proportion per Cent. of each Age to the Total				100.00	7.63	4.76	3.58	4.92	17.41	18.19	13.06	7.63	5.19	2.65	1.75	0.56	0.31	0.09	0.04	0.01	0.02	12.20
Children and Adults†			Males		5,657			46,885
			Females		4,984			9,168