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Murray (SD)

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Introduction

Murray Statistical Division covers 11 per cent of the State and contains 1.8 percent of the population.

The entire length of the Murray River on the New South Wales border marks the southern boundary of this Division. The terrain in the western and central parts of the Division is flat, becoming undulating and finally very rugged on the eastern border. The temperature is generally warm to hot in summer and mild in winter. The average annual rainfall (in millimetres) declines from 980 at Tumbarumba in the eastern sector to 700 at Albury and Holbrook, 392 at Deniliquin, 330 at Balranald, and 263 at Wentworth. The main southern railway line and the Hume Highway from Sydney to Melbourne pass through Albury, the main population centre of in the Division. The other urban areas in the Division are adequately served by highways passing through the Division and/or extensions of the broad-guage Victorian railways system.

Value of building jobs approved in 1995-96 was $130 million. The largest contributor to this amount was Albury(C) with 58.4 percent, followed by Corowa(A) with 6.9 percent.

Rice growing during 1994-95 represented 54.1 per cent of the State total and was located in the irrigation region of the Division. Jerilderie (A) with 16,245 hectares, or 25.25 percent of the Division total had the largest area grown to rice followed by Conargo(A) with 12,952 ha, or 20 percent.

The area under grape vines and value of citrus fruit represented 28.3 percent and 31.5 percent of the State total respectively. Most of these were located in Wentworth(A) with 70.2 percent of vineyards and 81.6 percent of the value of citrus fruit.

The number of pigs accounted for 39.63 percent of the State total. Of this number 80.6 percent were located in Corowa(A).

Albury had the largest number of manufacturing establishments in 1993-94 representing 55.3 percent of manufacturing establishments in the Division, 73 percent of employment in 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): 9,024,271.95

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

Potatoes

Poultry

Rice

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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