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A brewery and several hotels were built in 1854 and a Wesleyan church was opened in 1855.<\/p>\n
A particularly rich gold field was found in 1855 in the hills north of Maldon.<\/p>\n
Named Nuggetty, it was a source of easily won wealth, and the Mines Department calculated that over 300,000 ounces of gold were taken.<\/p>\n
Another notable area, immediately east of Maldon\u2019s commercial centre, was the Beehive Company.<\/p>\n
In 1865 Bailliere\u2019s Victorian gazetteer recorded Maldon as having the Tarrangower Times<\/em> newspaper (1858), numerous hotels and banks, two schools, a hospital (1859) and an athenaeum.<\/p>\n Profitable mining continued until the turn of the century, but the years of peak population were the 1870s.<\/p>\n CoreLogic data indicates that the predominant age group in Maldon is 60-69 years with households in being primarily childless couples and are likely to be repaying $1000 to $1399 per month on mortgages. In general, people in Maldon work in a professional occupation.<\/p>\n In 2011, 80.4 per cent of the homes in Maldon were owner-occupied compared with 80.9 per cent in 2016.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n