Rural City of Benalla

Template:Use Australian English Template:Use dmy dates Template:About Template:Infobox Australian place The Rural City of Benalla is a local government area in the Hume region of Victoria, Australia, located in the north-east part of the state. It covers an area of Template:Convert and, in August 2021, had a population of 14,528.<ref name=ABSLGA/>

It includes the towns of Baddaginnie, Benalla, Devenish, Goorambat, Major Plains, Swanpool, Tatong, Thoona, Warrenbayne and Winton. It was formed in 2002 from the de-amalgamation of the Delatite Shire into the current rural city and the Shire of Mansfield,<ref name=Gazette /> the former being a merger between the latter, the Shire of Benalla and the City of Benalla.

The Rural City is governed and administered by the Benalla Rural City Council; its seat of local government and administrative centre is located at the council headquarters in Benalla. The Rural City is named after the main urban settlement located in the centre-north of the LGA, that is Benalla, which is also the LGA's most populous urban centre with a population of 10,331.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Council

Current composition

The council is composed of seven councillors elected to represent an unsubdivided municipality.<ref name=Council>Template:Cite web</ref>

Ward	Councillor		Notes
Unsubdivided	Template:Australian party style|	Justin King
	Template:Australian party style|	Danny Claridge
	Template:Australian party style|	Peter Davis
	Template:Australian party style|	Don Firth
	Template:Australian party style|	Bernie Hearn
	Template:Australian party style|	Gail O'Brien
	Template:Australian party style|	Punarji Hewa Gunaratne

Administration and governance

File:Rural City of Benalla offices.jpg

The Rural City is headquartered on the main street of Benalla.

The council meets in the council chambers at the council headquarters in the Benalla Municipal Offices, which is also the location of the council's administrative activities. It also provides customer services at its administrative centre in Benalla.

Townships and localities

The 2021 census, the rural city had a population of 14,528 up from 13,861 in the 2016 census<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Population
Locality	2016	2021
Template:VICcity	17	16
Template:VICcity^	338	347
Template:VICcity	10,330	10,822
Template:VICcity^	77	93
Template:VICcity^	41	51
Template:VICcity^	20	19
Template:VICcity^	97	117
Template:VICcity	39	45
Template:VICcity	31	29
Template:VICcity	45	44
Template:VICcity	157	204
Template:VICcity^	16	34
Template:VICcity	197	208
Template:VICcity^	963	1,049
Template:VICcity	62	75
Template:VICcity	83	91
Template:VICcity	297	269
Template:VICcity	79	92
Template:VICcity	151	165

Population
Locality	2016	2021
Template:VICcity	99	142
Template:VICcity	225	220
Template:VICcity^	37	36
Template:VICcity	131	160
Template:VICcity	96	75
Template:VICcity	54	47
Template:VICcity	57	57
Template:VICcity^	116	118
Template:VICcity	207	227
Template:VICcity	103	139
Template:VICcity	89	103
Template:VICcity	287	281
Template:VICcity	127	133
Template:VICcity	121	107
Template:VICcity	39	40
Template:VICcity	145	144
Template:VICcity	108	103
Template:VICcity	7	8

Template:Columns-end ^ - Territory divided with another LGA

See also

• List of localities (Victoria)
• List of places on the Victorian Heritage Register in the Rural City of Benalla

External links

• Benalla Rural City Council official website
• Link to Land Victoria interactive maps
• Template:Victorian local government areas pre-1994 vs present map link