Mailors Flat

Mailors Flat is a locality in western Victoria, Australia. It is in the Shire of Moyne local government area, in what is commonly known as the Western District. Mailors Flat is 10 km north of Warrnambool. It was named after Robert Mailor who took up a pastoral run in 1842.

Mailors Flat Victoria
Mailors Flat
Coordinates	38°17′S 142°26′E / 38.283°S 142.433°E / -38.283; 142.433
Population	425 (2016)^[1]
Postcode(s)	3275
Location	258 km (160 mi) W of Melbourne 10 km (6 mi) NW of Warrnambool 14 km (9 mi) s of Woolsthorpe 6 km (4 mi) N of Winslow
LGA(s)	Shire of Moyne
State electorate(s)	South-West Coast
Federal division(s)	Wannon

By the 1870s, Mailor's pastoral run was broken up into smaller farms. This brought more families into the area and a school was opened in 1873.

After the WW2 , the Warrnambool Airport was laid out to the west of the township.

In 2006/07 Mailors Flat boasted the highest annual income in the Western District. A Local Moyne Shire councillor Jim Doukas suggested the reason was that many locals ran successful businesses in Warrnambool and moved out to Mailors Flat for the larger housing blocks and lifestyle.^[2]

References

1. Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Mailors Flat (State Suburb)". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 5 February 2021.  
2. JOHNSON, ALEX (19 March 2009). "Mailors Flat is the region's wealthiest postcode". The Standard.