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The area was first named Yankee Boat Flat, but the pursuit and capture of a kangaroo by miners apparently caused a change of name.<\/p>\n
Most mining was alluvial or by puddling machines until several companies began exploiting quartz reefs in 1871.<\/p>\n
By the mid-1860s there were Anglican and Wesleyan schools, seven hotels, a railway station on the Melbourne to Bendigo line (1862), and about 25 puddling machines at work.<\/p>\n
In 1873 the Crusoe water reservoir was completed in Crusoe gully, an important step towards permanent water for Kangaroo Flat and Bendigo.<\/p>\n
There was sustained mining activity throughout the 1870s and 1880s, but the next two decades saw the population fall to about two-thirds of the peak census figure reached in 1881.<\/p>\n
Kangaroo Flat continued as a Bendigo outer suburb until the years following World War Two, when post war industries were attracted to it.<\/p>\n
A Dunlop belting factory opened in 1948 and Bradford Cotton Mill in 1950, the mill (later Rocklea Spinning Mill) employed 324 workers in 1964 and 230 in 1993.<\/p>\n
CoreLogic data indicates that the predominant age group in Kangaroo Flat is 20-29 years with households being primarily childless couples and are likely to be repaying $1000 – $1399 per month on mortgages.<\/p>\n
In general, people in Kangaroo Flat work in a labourer occupation.<\/p>\n
In 2011, 67.3 per cent of the homes in Kangaroo Flat were owner occupied compared with 67.4 per cent in 2016.<\/p>\n
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