Indicator: Taxable Income

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What the data indicates about Mildura
TAXABLE INCOME
With few exceptions the taxable income of workers in Regional Victoria and the sub-regions of Mildura is substantially below that of Metropolitan Melbourne. The table below covers the three years 2001-2003 and expresses comparative earnings in terms of average (mean) taxable incomes. In 2003, with the exception of Ouyen’s average of $37,094 which exceeded the Regional Victorian counterpart by more than $2,000, all other sub-areas of Mildura had mean taxable incomes that were of the order of $9,000 or more below the Melbourne figure. The differences ranged from almost $12,000 in the case of Wentworth to around $5,000 in the case of Ouyen.
How stable were these differences over the three-year period? In 2002 Ouyen’s average ($40,022) again exceeded that of Regional Victoria by almost $6,000 and was just $890 short of the Melbourne figure. This followed a far less favourable position in the preceding year when Ouyen’s average mean taxable income was slightly below that of Regional Victoria and more than $8,000 below that for Melbourne. Averages for the remaining sub-areas of Mildura in 2002 and 2001 were of the order of $8,000 to $11,000 and $9,500 to $11,500 respectively below the Melbourne average with Wentworth and Merbein either at or close to the extreme low end of the scale in those two years.

TAXABLE INCOME DISTRIBUTION ACROSS MILDURA LOCALITIES
Source: ATO Annual Reports 2002, 2003, 2004

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Last Updated: Tuesday, 6 February 2007