TOWNS IN WHICH POPULATION DIMINISHED BETWEEN 1871 AND 1881.
Name of Town. Population.* Decrease.
1871. 1881.
Ballarat 24,308 22,411 1,897
Ballarat East 16,397 14,849 1,548
Beechworth 2,866 2,399 467
Belfast 2,485 1,757 728
Browns and Scarsdale 2,121 1,085 1,036
Buninyong 1,981 1,416 565
Castlemaine 6,935 5,787 1,148
Chewton 2,387 1,688 699
Clunes 6,068 5,811 257
Creswick 3,969 3,731 238
Daylesford 4,696 3,892 804
Dunolly 1,553 1,502 51
Geelong † 15,026 14,566 460
Graytown 1,422 161 1,261
Guildford 1,156 765 391
Heathcote 1,554 1,203 351
Jamieson 389 328 61
Kilmore 1,555 1,092 463
Koroit 1,672 1,644 28
Majorea 1,734 994 740
Malmsbury 1,357 1,329 28
Newtown and Chilwell 4,749 4,642 107
Portland 2,372 2,265 107
Raywood 528 426 102
Rutherglen 616 484 132
Sebastopol 6,496 2,498 3,998
Smythesdale 1,003 685 318
South Barwon 1,684 1,474 210
Steiglitz 1,058 275 783
Talbot 2,878 2,318 560
Tarnagulla 1,359 886 473
Wangaratta 1,469 1,331 138
Woodend 1,452 1,148 304
Wood's Point 1,059 562 497
Total 128,354 107,404 20,950