The last of the 19 “B” seats brings us to the Victorian outer metro seat of Bruce.
2007 Election Result and Two Party Preferred History
| Party | LP | ALP | GRN | NP | FFP | OTH |
| 07 Primary | 37.57 | 51.85 | 5.09 | 0 | 2.85 | 2.6 |
Age Profile, Family Composition, Housing and Migration
The final three categories in that last chart measure the proportion of the population that had the same address in 2001 as they did in 2006, the proportion of the population that moved location between 2001 and 2006 but moved locally (that is, moved houses within their Local Statistical Area – an ABS geographical category based on local government boundaries), and the proportion of the population that moved houses between 2001 and 2006, but moved from outside of their local area. Those last three stats gives us an idea of the size of the population growth/churn going on in a seat.
Income and Employment
Please note: Centrelink data is from 2008 and comes from the Dept of Human Services website.
Map comes from the Australian Electoral Commission.
All other data derives from the 2006 Census.
One Comment
Bruce is one of those seats that are in two parts. It links middle class areas around Waverley to very working class Springvale and Dandenong. It’s also a bit of an odd beast since these two areas have little connection- in this area most roads/railways and community links are east-west not north-south.
It would be interesting to see how some of these demographic measures change as you move across the seat from north to south, since the north is far more affluent than the south.