The Shire of Mount Morgan had only crossed the five thousand population in 1954.
1933 4,404 1947 4,954 1954 5,060 1961 4,871 1966 4,421 1971 3,967 1976 3,467 1981 3,136 1986 3,108 1991 3,093 1996 2,858 2001 2,776 2006 2,925 
