Around 2470 people per square kilometre in Mitcham means predictable site sizes and predictable intervals. Mitcham is roughly 20 kilometres from the CBD, where home offices, small workshops and rental properties make up most of the work.
For Mitcham, Whitehorse has no role in test and tag. The obligations sit in the relevant Australian Standard and, where the property is rented or a workplace, in the duty of the person who controls it. We treat Mitcham, Donvale and Forest Hill as one working area rather than three separate postcodes.
By the numbers: 16795 people, roughly 6.8 square kilometres, postcode 3132, inside Whitehorse. That is Mitcham as of the 2021 census. Our working patch either side of Mitcham takes in Donvale, Forest Hill, Nunawading and Ringwood, which is why availability here is usually good.
Mitcham is around 9.2 kilometres north-west of our workshop in Boronia, close enough that the van is stocked for the job before it leaves.