VICTORIAN STATISTICS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 3567, 24 June 1872, Page 3

VICTORIAN STATISTICS.

- - '-*■ The following summary of the last census of Victoria is taken from the Argue : Summary tables and tabular results of the Victorian Census of 1871, were presented to Parliament yesterday. It appears that of dwellings, exclusive of stores, tents, &c., there were 145,600 occupied ; 6997 unoccupied, and 866 in course of erection on the 2nd April, 1871. Of inhabited stores, offices, and public buildings there were 362; tents and dwellings with canvas roofs, 4656; brick or stone 33,461 j wood, iron, lath and plaster, 101,635 ; slabs, hark, mud, &c., 16,499; canvas, linen, calico, &c., 4636; and dwellings of materials not specified, 2230. The dwellers in brick, stone, wood, iron, or lath and plaster buildings, exclusive of Chinese and aborigines, numbered 656,716 j in slab, bark, or mud huts, 36,366; in tents and dwellings with canvas roofs, 7512; and habitations of unstated materials, 6816 j while there were 1879 travellers and persons sleeping under drays and camping out; 2232 persons in ships and hulks; and an estimated migratory population of 742, making a total of 712,263 persons. Chinese to the number of 17,935 were accommodated as follows : —6614 in houses of brick, stone, wood, iron, or lath and plaster; 9621 in slab, bark, or mud huts; 1148 in tents and dwellings with canvas roofs; 459 in habitations of unstated materials ; 43 travellers, &c.; and 20 in ships and hulks. Aborigines to the number of 1330 are placed in two classes—s9l in habitations of unstated materials, and 739 as travellers, &c. The number of females to 100 males was 82.40; the number of persons to the square mile (exclusive of persons in ships), 8.268; the number of persons to the inhabited dwellings (exclusive of persons in ships), 4.84; and the number of in ; habited dwellings to the square mile, 1.708. Between 1851 and 1871 males increased by 354,849, or 768 per cent.; females by 299,334, or about 961 per cent; and the total population by 654,183, or nearly 846 per cent. The estimated area of Victoria is 88,198 square miles, and by omitting the decimal point, the figures may be read thus:—On 2nd April, 1871, there were 8240 females to every 10,000 males in Victoria;, the average number of persons to 100 square miles was 8268; the average number of persons to 100 inhabited dwellings was 484, and the average number of inhabited dwellings to 1000 square miles was 1708. There were 38,558 occupiers of land of more than one acre in extent; of this quantity 6,380,388 acres were freehold, 28,694,312 rented from the Crown, aud 1,853,404 rented from private individuals; making in all 36,928,104 acres, giving the average number of acres to each occupier as 957‘73. The number of occupiers of cultivated land was 38,558; the number of persons cultivating,, 28,092; and the number of acres cultivated, 804,508. The average number of acres cultivated was 20 - 86 by each occupier, and 28 - 64 by each cultivator. There were 78,231 proprietors of dive stock, which numbered 11,766,546, made up as f0110w5:—2C9,023 horses, 212,193 milch cows, 564,534 other cattle, 10,477,976 sheep, 180,109 pigs, 122,164 goats (including 77 Angora goats and 3 cashmere goats) 56 asses, 164 mules, 266 deer, and 59 alpacas. Poultry numbered 1,931,645, owned by 81,347 persons. The items are 83,025 geese, 137,355 ducks, 1,636,782 fowls, 69,736 turkeys, 970 pea fowls, 3342 guinea fowls, 196 pheasants, and 16 ostriches.