Castlemaine

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Castlemaine

Total population

10,577

Coordinates-37.07°, 144.22°

Demographic figures from Australian Bureau of Statistics. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Castlemaine is a town in west central Victoria, Australia, in the Goldfields region about 123 kilometres northwest by road from Melbourne and about 39 kilometres from the major provincial centre of Bendigo. It is the administrative and economic centre of the Shire of Mount Alexander. Castlemaine was named by the chief goldfield commissioner, Captain W. Wright, in honour of his Irish uncle, Viscount Castlemaine. At the 2021 census, Castlemaine had a population of 7,506.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.