Yallourn

Yallourn
Yallourn
	Overview of Yallourn, 1948
	Yallourn
	Coordinates: 38°11′S 146°20′E / 38.183°S 146.333°E
Country	Australia
State	Victoria
LGA	City of Latrobe;
Location	126 km (78 mi) E of Melbourne ; 9 km (5.6 mi) NW of Morwell ; 5 km (3.1 mi) E of Moe ;
Established	1921
Government
• State electorate	Morwell;
• Federal divisions	Monash; Gippsland;
Population
• Total	143 (SAL 2021)
Postcode	3825

Yallourn is a locality in the Latrobe Valley region of Victoria, Australia, 126 kilometres (78 mi) east of Melbourne, located within the City of Latrobe local government area. Yallourn was originally a company town, built between 1921 and 1961 to house employees of the State Electricity Commission of Victoria (SECV), which operated the nearby Yallourn Power Station complex. However, expansion of the adjacent open-cut brown coal mine led to the closure and removal of the town in the 1980s.

Whilst the township no longer exists, the locality remains with a diminished population; at the 2021 census, Yallourn recorded a population of 143, down from 251 at the 2006 census.