Summary of Mining Districts., TABLE XXVIII.—Showing the Population and Houses on the Goldfields in the different Mining Districts, and the Increase and Decrease of the Total during the interval between the Censuses of 1861 and 1871.
| Mining Disricts. |
Habitations. |
Population (exclusive of Chinese and Aborigines) living in— |
Travellers and Persons Sleeping under Drays or Camping out. |
Chinese living in— |
Aborigines living in Houses. |
| Number of Rooms. |
Brick, Stone, Wood, Iron, or Lath and Plaster Buildings. |
Slab, Bark, or Mud Huts. |
Tents, or Dwellings with Canvas Roofs. |
Habitations of Unstated Materials. |
Europeans. |
Chinese. |
Aborigines. |
Brick, Stone, Wood, Iron, or Lath and Plaster Buildings. |
Slab, Bark, or Mud Huts. |
Tents, or Dwellings with Canvas Roofs. |
Habitations of Unstated Materials. |
| One. |
Two. |
Three and Four. |
Five and Six. |
Over Six. |
Not stated. |
| Brick, Stone, Wood, Iron, &c. |
Huts, Tents, &c. |
| Ararat |
200 |
1,009 |
1,339 |
1,497 |
420 |
287 |
135 |
14,740 |
2,647 |
239 |
204 |
45 |
|
4 |
281 |
1,340 |
33 |
6 |
7 |
| Ballarat |
1,206 |
1,266 |
4,487 |
9,716 |
3,436 |
1,847 |
485 |
87,027 |
2,691 |
207 |
721 |
81 |
3 |
8 |
1,956 |
1,839 |
53 |
30 |
2 |
| Beechworth |
345 |
1,191 |
1,477 |
2,370 |
738 |
433 |
199 |
19,871 |
3,039 |
87 |
263 |
165 |
22 |
|
1,105 |
2,407 |
34 |
67 |
1 |
| Castlemaine |
731 |
1,611 |
2,095 |
3,698 |
1,062 |
610 |
370 |
32,964 |
2,274 |
134 |
302 |
43 |
|
|
909 |
1,269 |
464 |
25 |
1 |
| Gippsland |
140 |
545 |
388 |
331 |
98 |
99 |
73 |
3,337 |
1,047 |
158 |
49 |
48 |
|
|
251 |
330 |
59 |
277 |
1 |
| Maryborough |
790 |
2,575 |
2,120 |
2,957 |
773 |
433 |
425 |
28,598 |
3,875 |
1,177 |
302 |
54 |
2 |
2 |
375 |
1,179 |
305 |
21 |
2 |
| Sandhurst |
763 |
2,016 |
2,792 |
4,364 |
1,239 |
660 |
182 |
41,935 |
5,020 |
576 |
226 |
61 |
2 |
1 |
565 |
774 |
202 |
3 |
4 |
| Total, 1871 |
4,175 |
10,213 |
14,698 |
24,933 |
7,766 |
4,369 |
1,869 |
228,472 |
20,593 |
2,578 |
2,067 |
497 |
29 |
15 |
5,442 |
9,138 |
1,150 |
429 |
18 |
| Total, 1861 |
2,012 |
31,050 |
15,943 |
12,092 |
2,359 |
1,692 |
3,272 |
98,308 |
19,352 |
82,208 |
3,358 |
740 |
35 |
|
1,346 |
21,873 |
814 |
|
| Increase or Decrease |
2,163 |
-20,837 |
-1,245 |
12,841 |
5,407 |
2,677 |
-1,403 |
130,164 |
1,241 |
-79,630 |
-1,291 |
-243 |
-6 |
15 |
4,096 |
-11,585 |
-385 |
18 |
| Increase or Decrease per cent. |
107.50 |
-67.11 |
-7.81 |
106.19 |
229.21 |
158.21 |
-42.88 |
132.40 |
6.41 |
-96.86 |
-38.44 |
-32.84 |
-17.14 |
Infinite |
304.31 |
-52.96 |
-47.30 |
Infinite |