Part 1 Your Region

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Part 1 Your Region
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Environmental diversity
Average annual rainfall, Victoria
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• Sunraysia Mallee
• Mining
• Horticulture
• Viticulture
• Transport

• Swan Hill
• Wheat
• Barley
• Stone Fruits
• Retail

• Central Victoria
• Tourism
• Mining
• Agricultural
• Defence Industries
• IT and Communications

• Shepparton District
• Dairying
• Horticulture
• Viticulture

• Wimmera
• Wheat
• Pulse Crops
• Oil seed
• Mining

• Ballarat Region
• Manufacturing
• IT and Communications
• Education
• Tourism
• Retail

• Gippsland
• Dairying
• Energy
• Manufacturing
• Fishing and aquaculture
• Horticulture
• Tourism
• Timber

• South West
• Dairying
• Tourism
• Horticulture
• Sheep/wool
• Beef

• Geelong Surf Coast
• Tourism
• Manufacturing
• Education
• Shipping

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Not all agriculture has the same effect
Labour intensive On-going employment
Labour non-intensive Very little employment
Labour intensive Seasonal employment
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Some industry sectors are growing employment
while others are not

• Change in employment by selected industries,
  regional Victoria, 1981 to 2001

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Settlement patterns and population density
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Historical population growth

• Population growth regional Victoria and Melbourne
  1841 to 2001

Source ABS
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Victoria

• Victoria
• About to reach 5 million people (4.962 million at
  31 March 2004)
• Growing at around 1.2 per annum
• as is Australia
• as is the World!
• In 2001
• 24.7 of us were aged less than 18 years
• 16.8 of us were aged 60 years or more
• 23.4 of us were born overseas
• Median age was 35 years

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Historical population growth

• Population growth rates regional Victoria and
  Melbourne 1976 to 2001

Source ABS
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Age structure

• Age structure of Victoria, 1971 and 2001

Source ABS
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Change in age structure

• Net change in age structure of Victoria, 1971 to
  2001

Source ABS
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Age profile

• Proportion of population by 5-year age group,
  Melbourne and regional Victoria, 2001

Source ABS ERPs
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The sources of recent Victorian population
growth population growth in Victoria, 1971 to
2001
Natural Increase 929,000
Overseas Migration 660,000
Interstate Migration -303,000
(1,857,000 births 928,000 deaths)
Population growth 1,286,000
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Components of population change, Victoria 1971
to 2003
Natural Increase
Net Overseas Migration
Net Interstate Migration
Total Population Change
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Declining fertility rates

• Age specific fertility rates, Victoria, 1971 and
  2002

Source ABS
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Increasing life expectancy

• chance of survival by age, males, Victoria,
  1881 to 1998

Source ABS
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Net migration Melbourne and regional Victoria

• Historical net migration between Melbourne and
  regional Victoria, 1966 to 2001

DSE adjusted for inter-censal discrepancy
Source ABS, DSE
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LGA/region net migration 1996 to 2001more than
300 persons
Source ABS Census 2001