Disadvantage: SA2s Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA) is an ABS product that ranks areas in according to relative socio-economic advantage and disadvantage. SEIFA has 4 indexes. The Index of Relative Socio-economic Disadvantage (IRSD) is shown. It summarises variables that indicate relative disadvantage and ranks areas from most disadvantaged to least disadvantaged. SEIFA data and Technical Paper can be Alps - East found at: http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/[email protected]/ (! mf/2033.0.55.001 The latest Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS) boundaries can be found at: http://www.abs.gov.au/geography (! Legend (! Alps - West (! Locality Bruthen - Omeo ENSAY Highways WELLINGTON (! LGA boundaries EAST GIPPSLAND DARGO (! SA2 boundaries

BUCHAN (! SEIFA scores Decile* CANN RIVER 1 Most disadvantaged (! MALLACOOTA Alps - West (! 2 3 BRUTHEN 4 (! ORBOST NOWA NOWA (! 5 (! 6 7 (! Lakes Entrance 8 Bairnsdale LAKE TYERS Maffra LAKES ENTRANCE(! 9 (! Lake King 10 Least disadvantaged No SEIFA score Paynesville *Deciles: all areas across are ordered from LOCH SPORT lowest to highest score, then the lowest 10% of (! areas are given a decile number of 1, the next lowest 10% of areas are given a decile number 2 and so on, Longford - Loch Sport up to the highest 10% of areas which are given a decile number of 10. This means that areas are divided up into ten equal sized groups, depending on their score.

Some areas in the outskirts of this town (not affecting the interpretation of the map) may have been excluded