The size of the rural and residential hamlet of Inverleigh is approximately 211.7 square kilometres and has 6 parks covering nearly 3.3 per cent of total area.<\/p>\n
The population of Inverleigh in 2011 was 1,182 people and by the 2016 Census the population was 1,468 showing a population growth of 24.2 per cent in the area during that time.<\/p>\n
Inverleigh is a rural township at the junction of the Barwon and Leigh Rivers reached by railway from Geelong or by the Hamilton Highway.<\/p>\n
The Hamilton Highway was originally the Lower Leigh Road, an early track to Victoria\u2019s Western District.<\/p>\n
In 1843 William Lawson built an inn near a ford across the Barwon River, not only was the inn conveniently near a river crossing, the land thereabouts was flood prone, and the silt left by the waters was ideal for farming where early settlers had orchards and dairy farms.<\/p>\n
Lawson built a new hotel, named the Horseshoe Inn, during 1851-53, and a township was proclaimed in 1853 with a bridge over the Barwon being built in 1855.<\/p>\n
Inverleigh maintained a comparatively consistent population level during the years after World War II, with about a 30 per cent growth between 1971 and 1996.<\/p>\n
The town is compact, as the flood prone land near the rivers is suited only to rural or rural\/residential use.<\/p>\n
CoreLogic data indicates that the predominant age group in Inverleigh is 0-9 years with households in Inverleigh being primarily couples with children and are likely to be repaying $1,800-$2,399 per month on mortgage repayments, and in general, people in Inverleigh work in a managers occupation. In 2011, 88.6 per cent of the homes in Inverleigh were owneroccupied compared with 91.3 per cent in 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The size of the rural and residential hamlet of Inverleigh is approximately 211.7 square kilometres and has 6 parks covering nearly 3.3 per cent of total area. The population of Inverleigh in 2011 was 1,182 people and by the 2016 Census the population was 1,468 showing a population growth of 24.2 per cent in the […]<\/p>\n