INCREASE OF POPULATION., TABLE XI.—Showing the Increase or Decrease of Inhabitants and Inhabited Houses in the Corporate Towns and Municipal Districts formed previous to the Census of 1857., In the Instances in which a diminution has taken place the minus sign, thus ( - ) is placed before the decrease and per centage of decrease.
| CORPORATE TOWNS AND MUNICIPALITIES. |
INHABITANTS. |
INHABITED HOUSES. |
| Persons, 1861. |
Persons, 1857. |
Numerical Increase or Decrease. |
Increase or Decrease per cent. |
Number, 1861. |
Number, 1857. |
Numerical Increase or Decrease of Inhabited Houses. |
Increase or Decrease per cent. of Inhabited Houses. |
| SEAPORT. |
(1.) |
(2.) |
(3.) |
(4.) |
(5.) |
(6.) |
(7.) |
(8.) |
| Melbourne (within the Corporate limits of 1857) |
59,079 |
52,720 |
6,359 |
12.0 |
11,929 |
9,877 |
2,052 |
20.7 |
| East Collingwood |
12,653 |
10,786 |
1,867 |
17.3 |
3,057 |
2,505 |
552 |
22.0 |
| Richmond |
11,355 |
9,029 |
2,326 |
25.7 |
2,595 |
2,004 |
591 |
29.4 |
| Prahran |
9,886 |
8,165 |
1,721 |
21.0 |
2,111 |
1,779 |
332 |
18.7 |
| St. Kilda |
6,408 |
4,781 |
1,627 |
34.0 |
1,214 |
855 |
359 |
42.0 |
| Emerald Hill |
8,822 |
6,419 |
2,403 |
37.4 |
1,922 |
1,416 |
506 |
35.7 |
| Williamstown |
4,492 |
3,542 |
950 |
26.8 |
992 |
780 |
212 |
27.1 |
| Geelong (within Corporate limits of 1857) |
22,986 |
23,338 |
- 352 |
- 1.5 |
4,814 |
4,970 |
- 156 |
- 3.1 |
| Warrnambool |
2,211 |
1,594 |
617 |
38.7 |
432 |
349 |
83 |
23.8 |
| Belfast |
2,342 |
2,194 |
148 |
6.7 |
455 |
427 |
28 |
6.5 |
| Portland |
2,804 |
2,706 |
98 |
3.6 |
565 |
562 |
3 |
0.5 |
| Total of Seaport Towns |
143,038 |
125,274 |
17,764 |
14.1 |
30.086 |
25,524 |
4,562 |
17.8 |
| INLAND. |
|
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|
|
|
|
|
|
| Kilmore |
1,668 |
1,258 |
410 |
32.6 |
329 |
230 |
99 |
43.0 |
| Ballaarat West |
9,264 |
5,339 |
3,925 |
73.5 |
2,211 |
1,266 |
945 |
74.6 |
| Castlemaine |
9,683 |
6,911 |
2,772 |
40.1 |
2,541 |
1,894 |
647 |
34.1 |
| Sandhurst |
13,020 |
12,297 |
723 |
5.9 |
3,462 |
3,815 |
- 353 |
- 9.3 |
| Beechworth |
2,317 |
3,040 |
- 723 |
- 23.7 |
542 |
786 |
- 44 |
- 5.6 |
| SUPPLEMENTARY TABLE. |
| Melbourne (Corporate limits of 1861) |
36,868 |
34,175 |
2,693 |
7.9 |
7,095 |
6,086 |
1,009 |
16.5 |
| Fitzroy Municipality (formerly Fitzroy Ward) |
11,807 |
10,642 |
1,165 |
10.9 |
2,492 |
2,119 |
373 |
17.6 |
| Hotham Municipality (formerly Hotham Ward) |
7,053 |
6,016 |
1,037 |
17.2 |
1,531 |
1,258 |
273 |
21.7 |
| Sandridge Municipality (formerly Macarthur Ward) |
3,351 |
1,887 |
1,464 |
77.5 |
811 |
404 |
407 |
100.7 |
| Total |
59,079 |
52,720 |
6,359 |
12.0 |
11,929 |
9,867 |
2,062 |
20.8 |