National Regional Profile: Darebin (C) - Preston (Statistical Local Area)  
ARCHIVED ISSUE Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA TIME) 28/07/2008 CLASSIFICATIONS CODE: 205301892   
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INDUSTRY

2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
BUILDING APPROVALS - year ended 30 June
Private sector housesno.
226
299
318
388
267
Total dwelling unitsno.
511
577
671
774
487
Value of total residential building$m
82.9
97.1
131.5
140.7
97.8
Value of total non-residential building$m
46.1
63.6
31.2
33.8
60.4
Value of total building$m
129.1
160.7
162.7
174.5
158.3
NEW MOTOR VEHICLE SALES - year ended 30 June
Passenger vehicles no.
2 660
2 339
2 199
2 034
2 108
Other vehiclesno.
873
927
1 051
1 092
1 002
Total new motor vehicle salesno.
3 533
3 266
3 250
3 126
3 110
MOTOR VEHICLE CENSUS - REGISTERED MOTOR VEHICLES - at 31 March
Number by type of vehicle
Passenger vehiclesno.
53 473
55 264
54 640
55 576
56 813
Campervansno.
40
42
36
45
55
Light commercial vehiclesno.
5 479
5 799
6 348
6 750
7 270
Light rigid trucksno.
286
306
320
362
341
Heavy rigid trucksno.
803
778
777
787
787
Articulated trucksno.
75
74
78
77
78
Non-freight carrying trucksno.
46
30
27
25
25
Busesno.
289
290
284
302
330
Motorcyclesno.
1 037
1 018
1 041
1 079
1 150
Total registered motor vehiclesno.
61 527
63 601
63 552
65 003
66 848
Number per 1,000 population
Passenger vehiclesno.
654
673
659
660
664
Campervansno.
0
1
0
1
1
Light commercial vehiclesno.
67
71
77
80
85
Light rigid trucksno.
3
4
4
4
4
Heavy rigid trucksno.
10
9
9
9
9
Articulated trucksno.
1
1
1
1
1
Non-freight carrying trucksno.
1
0
0
0
0
Busesno.
4
4
3
4
4
Motorcyclesno.
13
12
13
13
13
Total registered motor vehiclesno.
752
774
766
772
782
Number by type of fuel
Petrol - Leadedno.
12 536
10 615
8 885
7 228
5 936
Petrol - Unleadedno.
43 973
47 626
48 884
51 758
54 795
Dieselno.
2 080
2 268
2 581
2 838
3 049
LPG/Dual/Otherno.
2 938
3 092
3 202
3 179
3 069
AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES * - year ended 30 June
Total area
Area of holdingha
-
-
-
-
0.7
Cereals for grain ha
-
-
-
-
0.0
Vegetables for human consumption ha
-
-
-
-
3.5
Orchard trees (including nuts) ha
-
-
-
-
0.0
All fruit (excluding grapes) ha
-
-
-
-
0.0
Non-cereal broadacre cropsha
-
-
-
-
0.0
Total number
Sheep and lambsno.
-
-
-
-
0
Milk cattle (excluding house cows)no.
-
-
-
-
0
Meat cattle no.
-
-
-
-
0
Pigsno.
-
-
-
-
0
* Agricultural commodities data is subject to relative standard error (RSE) - for further information see ABS cat no. 7125.0