Rural City of Swan Hill

Template:For Template:Use Australian English Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox Australian place The Rural City of Swan Hill is a local government area in Victoria, Australia, located in the north-western part of the state. It covers an area of Template:Convert and, in August 2021, had a population of 21,403.<ref name=ABSLGA /> It includes the towns of Swan Hill, Lake Boga, Manangatang, Nyah, Nyah West, Piangil, Robinvale, Ultima and Woorinen South.

The Rural City is governed and administered by the Swan Hill Rural City Council; its seat of local government and administrative centre is located at the council headquarters in Swan Hill, it also has a service centre located in Robinvale. The Rural City is named after the main urban settlement lying in the south-east of the LGA, that is Swan Hill, which is also the LGA's most populous urban centre with a population of 10,431.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

History

The Rural City of Swan Hill was formed in 1995 in what was described as a "natural amalgamation"<ref name=":0">Template:Cite book</ref> of the City of Swan Hill, Shire of Swan Hill, and the southern Tresco district of the Shire of Kerang.<ref name="Gazette" />

In proposing the new LGA, the Local Government Board described the area as Victoria's "salad bowl". The LGA was to take in the regional service town of Swan Hill and a mix of dryland and irrigated agriculture alongside a tourism sector oriented around the Murray River and Lake Boga. A public consultation carried out by the Shire of Swan Hill in 1994 showed that more than 60% of respondents were in favour of the merger.<ref name=":0" />

Council

Current composition

The council is composed of four wards and seven councillors, with four councillors elected to represent the Central Ward and one councillor per remaining ward elected to represent each of the other wards.<ref name=Council>Template:Cite web</ref>

Ward	Party		Councillor	Notes
Central	Template:Australian party style|	Independent	Chris Jeffery
	Template:Australian party style|	United Australia Party<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	Stuart King
	Template:Australian party style|	Independent	Bill Moar	Mayor (2019–2022)
	Template:Australian party style|	Independent	Ann Young	Mayor (2016–2019)
Lakes	Template:Australian party style|	Independent	Les McPhee	Mayor (2022-present)
Murray-Mallee	Template:Australian party style|	Independent	Nicole McKay
Robinvale	Template:Australian party style|	Independent	Jacqui Kelly	Elected in 2023 on a countback to replace Jade Benham<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Administration and governance

The council meets in the council chambers at the council headquarters in the Swan Hill Municipal Offices, which is also the location of the council's administrative activities. It also provides customer services at both its administrative centre in Swan Hill, and its service centre in Robinvale.

Townships and localities

The 2021 census, the rural city had a population of 21,403 up from 20,584 in the 2016 census<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Population
Locality	2016	2021
Template:VICcity	25	40
Template:VICcity	40	78
Template:VICcity^	44	44
Template:VICcity	336	337
Template:VICcity	12	15
Template:VICcity	132	154
Template:VICcity	3	0
Template:VICcity	131	139
Template:VICcity	5	3
Template:VICcity	6	3
Template:VICcity	32	17
Template:VICcity	4	4
Template:VICcity	15	11
Template:VICcity	21	11
Template:VICcity	27	35
Template:VICcity	3	8

Population
Locality	2016	2021
Template:VICcity	85	87
Template:VICcity	48	64
Template:VICcity	39	19
Template:VICcity	36	45
Template:VICcity	985	982
Template:VICcity	19	86
Template:VICcity	38	33
Template:VICcity	309	274
Template:VICcity^	20	19
Template:VICcity	0	0
Template:VICcity	12	14
Template:VICcity	143	126
Template:VICcity	125	105
Template:VICcity	18	24
Template:VICcity	38	40
Template:VICcity	21	24

Population
Locality	2016	2021
Template:VICcity	530	536
Template:VICcity	663	673
Template:VICcity	18	18
Template:VICcity	135	159
Template:VICcity	259	230
Template:VICcity	10	16
Template:VICcity	5	5
Template:VICcity	3,088	3,497
Template:VICcity	*	#
Template:VICcity	10,905	11,186
Template:VICcity	4	11
Template:VICcity	142	175
Template:VICcity	11	13
Template:VICcity	209	162
Template:VICcity	152	153
Template:VICcity	0	8

Population
Locality	2016	2021
Template:VICcity	151	157
Template:VICcity	268	250
Template:VICcity^	13	16
Template:VICcity	174	173
Template:VICcity	3	0
Template:VICcity	159	163
Template:VICcity	48	43
Template:VICcity	0	0
Template:VICcity	111	128
Template:VICcity	7	0
Template:VICcity	22	8
Template:VICcity	85	91
Template:VICcity	260	262
Template:VICcity	87	94
Template:VICcity	356	404

Template:Columns-end ^ - Territory divided with another LGA
* - Not noted in 2016 Census
# - Not noted in 2021 Census

Sister cities

• Template:Flagicon Yamagata, Yamagata, Japan

See also

• List of places on the Victorian Heritage Register in the Rural City of Swan Hill

External links

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