Shire of Indigo

Template:Use Australian English Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox Australian place The Shire of Indigo, a local government area (LGA) in the Hume region of Victoria, Australia, lies in the north-east part of the state. It covers an area of Template:Convert and in August 2021 had a population of 17,368.<ref name=ABSLGA/> It includes the larger towns of Beechworth, Chiltern, Rutherglen, Wahgunyah and Yackandandah, the smaller towns of Barnawartha and Tangambalanga, and surrounding rural areas.

The Shire is governed and administered by the Indigo Shire Council; its seat of local government and administrative centre is located at the council headquarters in Beechworth, it also has service centres located in Chiltern, Rutherglen and Yackandandah. The Shire is named after the Indigo Valley and Indigo Creek, geographical features that meander through the LGA and into the Murray River.

In 2008, the Bankwest Quality of Life Index rated Indigo fifteenth of 590 Australian local government areas.<ref name="BankWest"> Template:Cite web </ref>

History

The Shire of Indigo was formed in 1994 from the amalgamation of the Shire of Rutherglen and most of the Shire of Chiltern, Shire of Yackandandah and United Shire of Beechworth.<ref name="Gazette" />

Indigo Shire's predecessor LGAs (green) as they were in 1994. The administrative centres of the former LGAs are marked by green dots.

Council

Current composition

As of 22 September 2016, 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|	Jenny O'Connor	Mayor, Member of the Greens<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
	Template:Australian party style|	Sophie Price	Deputy Mayor
	Template:Australian party style|	Bernard Gaffney
	Template:Australian party style|	James Trenery
	Template:Australian party style|	Barbara Murdoch
	Template:Australian party style|	Larry Goldsworthy
	Template:Australian party style|	Diane Shepheard

The makeup of the council is as follows:<ref name=VEC>Template:Cite web</ref>

Party		Councillors
Template:Australian party style|	Unaligned	6
Template:Australian party style|	Greens	1
	Total	7

Administration and governance

The council meets in the council chambers at the council headquarters in the Beechworth Municipal Offices, which is also the location of the council's administrative activities. It also provides customer services at both its administrative centre in Beechworth, and its service centres in Chiltern, Rutherglen and Yackandandah.

Townships and localities

The 2021 census, the shire had a population of 17,368 up from 15,952 in the 2016 census<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Population
Locality	2016	2021
Allans Flat	318	297
Barnawartha	904	987
Beechworth	3,859	4,274
Template:VICcity	171	181
Template:VICcity	102	99
Bruarong	77	114
Template:VICcity	79	82

Population
Locality	2016	2021
Template:VICcity	73	82
Template:VICcity	1,605	1,580
Chiltern Valley	60	77
Template:VICcity	96	94
Gooramadda	58	62
Gundowring^	214	208
Template:VICcity	219	206

Population
Locality	2016	2021
Indigo Valley	329	346
Kergunyah	215	232
Kiewa	474	483
Template:VICcity	76	84
Norong	118	130
Osbornes Flat	233	285
Template:VICcity	2,378	2,579

Population
Locality	2016	2021
Template:VICcity	179	200
Staghorn Flat^	293	368
Template:VICcity	364	371
Tangambalanga	542	908
Wahgunyah	1,098	1,061
Wooragee	345	342
Yackandandah	1,811	2,008

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

See also

• List of localities (Victoria)

External links

• Indigo Shire 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