Indicator: Backgrounds of Arrivals

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What we know from research

What the data indicates about Mildura
Age
Between 1996 and 2001, 6831 people of all ages took up residence in Mildura Municipality and provided the census with information about where they were living five years earlier. A little under half (45.2%) arrived from other States and Territories. Of the remainder the numerically most significant sources were Melbourne (20.2% of arrivals), Mallee (7.1%), overseas (5.2%) and Central Highlands (4.4%). In terms of age groups, 6,568 of the arrivals whose previous place of residence was established also supplied their ages and 86.4% of them were under 55 years of age compared with 73.4% of the longer-term Mildura residents. Just 13.6% of the new arrivals between 1996 and 2001 were 55 years or older compared with 26.6% of the longer-term residents. The seventy-five and upwards among the arrivals accounted for 2.3% of their total. The same age group accounted for 6.2% of the longer-settled population. It would seem that the increase in the number of aged residents in Mildura is essentially a home grown phenomenon.

Income
The following table is based on the income of adult residents of Mildura Municipality in 2001 and distinguishes those who were resident in the Municipality five years earlier than those who had lived elsewhere at that time. Because of the costs that would be involved in extracting this information for specific age groups the findings must be regarded as suggestive rather than conclusive. However, on the available evidence, and excluding those individuals whose previous address was not stated in the census, a higher proportion of the longer-term residents (78.4%) than more recent arrivals (73.6%) had incomes below $600 per week. Conversely, a slightly greater proportion (7.2%) of the new rivals than longer-term residents (6.0%) had incomes in excess of $1,000 per week.
There were some identifiable exceptions to this general pattern. New arrivals from the Mallee (81.4%) and to a lesser extent in terms of the numbers involved East Gippsland (93.0%) and Barwon (84.0%) were cases in point. However, among the more numerous arrivals from Melbourne just 71% were in the lowest income category:

INDIVIDUAL WEEKLY INCOMES IN 2001 X PLACE OF RESIDENCE IN 1996
Source: 2001 Census of Housing and Population – Special Run

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	Upward trend			Progress away from desired direction
	Downward trend
	No observable trend		Progress towards desired direction
	Under construction

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Last Updated: Tuesday, 6 February 2007