Yallourn

Overview of Yallourn, 1948

Yallourn, Victoria was a company town in Victoria, Australia built between 1921[1] and 1961[2] to house employees of the State Electricity Commission of Victoria (SECV), who operated the nearby Yallourn Power Station complex. However, expansion of the adjacent open-cut brown coal mine led to the closure and removal of the town in the 1980s. Whilst the township no longer exists, at the 2006 census, the adjacent region classified as Yallourn had a population of 251.[3]

  1. ^ Meredith Fletcher Digging People Up For Coal: A History of Yallourn Melbourne University Press, South Carlton 2002 p. 19
  2. ^ Meredith Fletcher Digging People Up For Coal: A History of Yallourn Melbourne University Press, South Carlton 2002 p. 163
  3. ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (25 October 2007). "Yallourn (State Suburb)". 2006 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 31 October 2010.