Regional Victoria

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Regional Victoria

• Regional Victoria
• 1.36 million at 30 June 2003
• Growing at around 1.0 per annum
• In 2001
• 27.0 aged under 18 years
• 18.8 aged 60 years and over
• 15.0 of people born overseas
• Top employers
• Retail trade (15.3)
• Manufacturing (13.4)
• Agriculture forestry and fishing (11.2)
• Health and Community Services (10.8)

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Population growth early 1990s

• Population growth by LGA, regional Victoria, 1991
  to 1996

Source ABS
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Population growth late 1990s

• Population growth by LGA, regional Victoria, 1996
  to 2001

Source ABS
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Population growth in regional Victoria

• Most growth occurs within 150km of Melbourne

Source ABS ERPs
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Population loss and community infrastructure
Source DOI - Regional Atlas
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Regional Victoria is a diverse place

• Land use and settlement
• Regional Victoria has 97 of Victorias land area
  but only 28 of its population
• Economically
• RV has 26 of the workforce but over half of
  Victorias exports
• RV has 83 of Victorias agricultural labour
  force but only 14 of those employed in finance,
  property and business services
• Ethnically
• RV has 28 of the population but only 14 of
  Victorias overseas born population and 9 of
  those born in non-English speaking countries.
• Demographically
• Only 8 of Victorias overseas migrants settle in
  regional Victoria
• RV is a net loser of people interstate, Melbourne
  has strong net gains

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LGA to LGA net migration 1996 to 2001more than
180 persons
Source ABS Census 2001
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Working out implied migration regional
Victoria the example of people born between 1961
and 1966
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Age specific migration Regional Victoria