Houses.

14. The number of inhabited dwellings in Victoria at the time of the census of 1871 was 158,481, in which 731,528 persons were housed, this being the total land population of the colony, exclusive of persons actually travelling. This shows a proportion of nearly five persons to a house, or more correctly, of forty-six persons to ten houses. The dwellings in the colony have not been enumerated since the census, but the number rated in municipal districts was returned in 1879 as 185,713, or 27,232 more than the whole number at the census.