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Hunter (SD)

Location map for SD: 110

Introduction

Hunter Statistical Division covers 4 percent of the state, and contained 9 percent of the population at 6 August 1996. The most populated areas in the Division were Lake Macquarie(C) and Newcastle(C).

The Hunter River and its tributaries in this Division form one of the largest river valleys on the New South Wales coast. To the north and south the area is enclosed by rugged highlands, while to the west, less rugged highlands give easy access to the New England areas. The climate is generally of the warm humid type, with the heaviest rainfall normally occurring in summer and autumn. Rainfall decreases markedly in amount and reliability from the coast inland. Railways traverse the region, linking the most important towns, and a highway closely follows the main northern rail route.

The value of building approvals approved during 1995-96 was $866.6 million with Newcastle (C) - Remainder contributing $170 million. Lake Macquarie (C) had the highest number of approvals of new houses.

In 1994-95, Hunter Statistical Division had 20.4 percent of the State's total area under grape vines, predominantly in Cessnock(C) and Muswellbrook (A). The Division also contained 21 per cent of the dairy farms in the State.

The areas with the largest number of manufacturing establishments in 1993-94 were Newcastle(C) - Remainder and Lake Macquarie(C). Together they represented 55.6 percent of manufacturing establishments in the Division, 64 per cent of the manufacturing employment, and 68 percent of turnover from manufacturing.

The figures reported here are a subset of the Agricultural Census data from 1982/1983 to 1996/1997 published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS, AgStats). The data has been analysed by the Bureau of Rural Sciences using a consistent geographic base. Further information about the data is available from the Australian Spatial Data Directory

The figures and text are reproduced with permission of the Australian Bureau of Statistics, © Commonwealth of Australia, 2000.

Statistics

Area of region (ha): 3,091,147.58

Area

Agroforestry

Apples

Berry Fruit

Cattle and Calves

Cereals excluding Rice

Citrus

Grapes

Legumes

Nuts

Oilseeds

Other Livestock

Other Non-Cereal Crops

Other Vegetables

Pastures

Pears

Pigs

Plantation Fruit

Potatoes

Poultry

Sales of Livestock

Sheep and Lambs

Stone Fruit

Further information

Please Note: Not all the selected data items are available for every year or for every statistical region.

The figures reported here are a subset of the Agricultural Census data from 1982/1983 to 1996/1997 published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS, AgStats). The data have been analysed by Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Australia to report them using a consistent geographic base. Further information about the data is available through the Australian Spatial Data Directory.

The subset includes 436 data items for plant production and 40 data items for livestock which were commonly available in the AgStats database over the 15 year period and each year for respondents having an Estimated Value of Agricultural Operations (EVAO) above the cut-off of $22,500.

The data have been concorded by bringing data collected using different geographies to a consistent geographic base, being Version 2.6 Statistical Local Area (SLA) boundaries (ABS, 1996) and using the non-agricultural lands mask from the National Land and Water Resources Audit's National Landuse Map (1996/1997).

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