With the release of the 2021 census, a rich world of information has been opened up to us regarding the happenings in the Victorian population over the last five years. In my experience, never has there been such a sense of anticipation, given the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.  It is fascinating to see the distribution of population growth across Victoria from 2016 to 2021 and the impact that the pandemic has had on those trends. We have just analysed the fastest growing LGAs in Victoria….. The overall rate of population growth remained very high from 2016 to 2021 (9.7% in Victoria) because of the…