Wellington Catchment

Wellington Primary Care Partnership covers the Victorian rural local government area of Wellington. Wellington’s population is concentrated around the City of Sale and the surrounding towns of Maffra, Yarram, Heyfield, Rosedale and Stratford. The Shire is also experiencing significant development growth in coastal areas, particularly around Port Albert, Golden Beach, Loch Sport and Seaspray.

Located just over two hours east of Melbourne, Wellington Shire is the third largest municipality in Victoria. Extending over nearly 11 000 square kilometres, the shire has a residential population of over 40 000.

Key Data and Issues

Gippsland Health Online provide an extensive range of planning documents such as:

• Gippsland Key Planning Indicators
• How Healthy are Gippslanders

For the full range of indicators, please visit  Gippsland Health Online

Other Relevant Data Sources

• Wellington Community
• Australian Bureau of Statisitcs, Census of Population and Housing
• Victorian Health Information Surveillance System (VHISS)
• Community Indicators Victoria
• Victorian Cancer Registry (Includes mortality and incidence data in a variety of formats and enables data comparison locally, internationally and Australia wide):