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Mid-North Coast (SD)

Location map for SD: 125

Introduction

Mid-North Coast Statistical Division covers 3 percent of the State and contains 4.35 percent of the population at 6 August 1996.

The Division covers the coastal strip extending from Wallis Lake in the south to the Richmond Range in the north, comprising a series of valleys running generally east-west (valleys of the Clarence, Macleay, Hastings, and Manning Rivers). The valleys have generally been intensively developed for agriculture, while the hills separating the valleys have seen little development. The region has a warm and humid to sub-humid climate. Rainfall is high; occasional severe flooding is a feature of the river valleys. The main road and rail system cuts across the river system and provides a link between areas to the north and south of the Division (e.g. Brisbane to Sydney). Other major roads run from the coast to the hinterland - Grafton to Glen Innes, Kempsey to Armidale, Port Macquarie to Tamworth, etc.

The value for building jobs approved in the Division in 1995-96 amounted to $481 million. Of this amount 79 per cent were accounted for in three areas: Hastings(A) with $165 million; Greater Taree with $119 million; and Coffs Harbour(C) with $96 million; and .

In 1994-95 the Division contained 54 percent of the State's total area planted to bananas and of this 69 percent were located in Coffs Harbour(C). Thirty one percent of the State total area planted to sugar-cane were located in the Division, almost all of which were in Maclean(A). The number of cattle and calves in the Division represented 6 percent of the State total.

Coffs Harbour (C), Hastings(M) and Greater Taree(C) had 61 percent of the total number of manufacturing establishments in the Division in 1993-94. Together they represented 54.6 percent of the manufacturing employment and 43 percent of turnover from manufacturing establishments

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): 2,591,866.81

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

Sugar Cane

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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