Surf Wiki
Save to docs
general/local-government-areas-of-victoria-state

From Surf Wiki (app.surf) — the open knowledge base

City of Ballarat

City of Ballarat
FieldValue
nameCity of Ballarat
statevic
imageAustralia Victoria Ballarat City location map.svg
captionMap of the City of Ballarat's municipal borders, urban areas and location in Victoria
pop107325
pop_year2018
pop_footnotes
area739
area_footnotes
est6 May 1994
gazetted6 May 1994
mayorCr Tracey Hargreaves
seatCentral
regionGrampians
logoBallarat ruralcity logo.png
urlhttp://www.ballarat.vic.gov.au
stategovEureka
stategov2Ripon
stategov3Wendouree
fedgovBallarat
near-nwPyrenees
near-nHepburn
near-neHepburn
near-eMoorabool
near-seMoorabool
near-sGolden Plains
near-swGolden Plains
near-wPyrenees
Note

the current local government area

| near-nw = Pyrenees | near-n = Hepburn | near-ne = Hepburn | near-e = Moorabool | near-se = Moorabool | near-s = Golden Plains | near-sw = Golden Plains | near-w = Pyrenees The City of Ballarat is a local government area in the west of the state of Victoria, Australia. It covers an area of 739 km2 and, in June 2023, had a population of 118,137. It is primarily urban with the vast majority of its population living in the Greater Ballarat urban area, while other significant settlements within the LGA include Buninyong, Waubra, Learmonth and Addington.

The city is governed and administered by the Ballarat City Council; its seat of local government and administrative centre is located at the council headquarters in Ballarat, it also has a service centre located in Buninyong. The city is named after the main urban settlement lying in the centre-south of the LGA, Ballarat, which is also the LGA's most populous urban area with a population of 105,471.

History

The City of Ballarat was formed on 6 May 1994 from the amalgamation of the City of Ballaarat, Shire of Ballarat, Borough of Sebastopol and parts of the Shire of Bungaree, Shire of Buninyong, Shire of Grenville and Shire of Ripon.

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

Council

Current composition

The council has nine elected Councillors, each representing a municipal electoral ward. The current Council, elected in November 2024, is:

WardPartyCouncillorNotes
AlfredtonIndependentDamon Saunders
Brown HillIndependentTed Lapkin
BuninyongLiberalBen Taylor
CentralLiberalSamantha McIntosh
DelacombeIndependentTracey Hargreaves
Golden PointIndependentTess Morgan
NorthIndependentJim Rinaldi
SebastopolLaborDes Hudson
WendoureeIndependentJay Morrison

Administration and governance

The council meets in the council chambers at the council headquarters in the Ballarat Town Hall Offices, which is also the location of the council's administrative activities. It also provides customer services at both its administrative centre in Ballarat, and its service centre in Buninyong.

The council's main offices are in a modern extension behind the Town Hall called The Phoenix. In 2009 the council voted to move to a new headquarters at Civic Hall on Mair Street, which would turn the heritage listed Town Hall building into a public general purpose venue.

2023 Council Review

Prior to the 2024 Election, The Victorian Electoral Commission conducted a review into the electoral structure of multiple Victorian Councils including the City of Ballarat. As part of this review it was deemed that from the 2024 Election, the council would take up nine single-councillor wards, namely:

  • Alfredton Ward
  • Brown Hill Ward
  • Buninyong Ward
  • Central Ward
  • Delacombe Ward
  • Golden Point Ward
  • North Ward
  • Sebastopol Ward
  • Wendouree Ward

Election results

2024

2020

2016

2012

PartyVotes%SwingSeatsChangeFormal votesInformal votesTotalRegistered voters / turnout
Independents20,67637.702
Independent Liberal19,84936.195
Independent Labor9,82917.921
Greens4,4898.191
54,84397.30
1,5242.70
56,367100
72,72577.51

Central Ward

North

South

Townships and localities

The 2021 census, the city had a population of 113,763 up from 101,686 in the 2016 census

PopulationLocality20162021
7165
9,22011,822
Ascot9693
164180
^107114
5,3285,378
5,6235,937
3,9254,041
2,1262,124
8482
^2125
210949
3,5824,489
^3,7143,797
261270
^232249
PopulationLocality20162021
3,6094,098
7541,064
667957
00
7180
^3,1703,279
6,2975,408
^392408
^7090
626633
^103110
5249
1112
2,1072,217
96
835900
PopulationLocality20162021
1,8141,692
1,6951,801
2,8822,878
438396
1,0142,994
371368
3,0953,829
868887
2929
3,3903,671
2,9753,011
2,2032,225
294295
962970
1,9001,844
PopulationLocality20162021
2,8893,000
97105
^258244
10,03210,194
^1,4671,762
2,8032,813
^232234
3946
^669721
^97104
^275308
5152
10,44510,376
9796
*3,440

^ – Territory divided with another LGA

***** – Not noted in 2016 Census

Sister cities

The City of Ballarat's sister cities are:

  • Inagawa, Hyōgo, Japan
  • Ainaro, East Timor

References

References

  1. (27 March 2019). "3218.0 – Regional Population Growth, Australia, 2017-18: Population Estimates by Local Government Area (ASGS 2018), 2017 to 2018". [[Australian Bureau of Statistics]].
  2. (6 May 1994). "Order Constituting the City of Ballarat...". State Government of Victoria.
  3. (2024-03-26). "Regional population, 2022-23 financial year {{!}} Australian Bureau of Statistics".
  4. (27 March 2019). "3218.0 – Regional Population Growth, Australia, 2017-18: Population Estimates by Significant Urban Area, 2008 to 2018". [[Australian Bureau of Statistics]].
  5. City of Ballarat. "Ballarat City Council". City of Ballarat.
  6. VEC. "Ballarat City Council election results 2024".
  7. (18 May 2010). "Ballarat City Council to commit $850k for Civic Hall site design".
  8. (2024-02-15). "Ballarat City Council electoral structure review Final Report". Victorian Electoral Commission.
  9. "Ballarat City Council election results 2012". Victorian Electoral Commission.
  10. (11 January 2023). "Census {{!}} Australian Bureau of Statistics". Australian Bureau of Statistics.
  11. (17 October 2004). "Sister cities build more than a cultural bond".
Info: Wikipedia Source

This article was imported from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the article history page.

local-government-areas-of-victoria-(state) grampians-(region) city-of-ballarat ballarat
Want to explore this topic further?

Ask Mako anything about City of Ballarat — get instant answers, deeper analysis, and related topics.

Research with Mako

Free with your Surf account

Content sourced from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

This content may have been generated or modified by AI. CloudSurf Software LLC is not responsible for the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of AI-generated content. Always verify important information from primary sources.

Report