Premise: Walpeup is a town in the Mallee region of north west Victoria. The town is in the Rural City of Mildura local government area and on the Mallee Highway and Pinnaroo railway line between Ouyen and the South Australian border, 458 km north west of the state capital, Melbourne and 130 km south west of the regional centre of Mildura. At the 2016 census , Walpeup had a population of 158.
Hypothesis: Walpeup's population grew by 1% from 2015 to 2016.