| Type: | lga |
| Shire of Corangamite | |
| State: | vic |
| Pop: | 16115 |
| Pop Year: | 2021 |
| Pop Footnotes: | [1] |
| Area: | 4408 |
| Est: | 1994 |
| Gazetted: | 23 September 1994[2] |
| Mayor: | Cr Kate Makin |
| Seat: | Camperdown |
| Region: | Barwon South West |
| Url: | http://www.corangamite.vic.gov.au/ |
| Stategov: | Polwarth |
| Stategov2: | Ripon |
| Stategov3: | South-West Coast |
| Fedgov: | Wannon |
| Near-Nw: | Ararat |
| Near-N: | Pyrenees |
| Near-Ne: | Golden Plains |
| Near-W: | Moyne |
| Near-E: | Colac Otway |
| Near-Sw: | Southern Ocean |
| Near-S: | Southern Ocean |
| Near-Se: | Southern Ocean |
The Shire of Corangamite is a local government area in the Barwon South West region of Victoria, Australia, located in the south-western part of the state. It covers an area of 4408km2 and in June 2018 had a population of 16,140.[1] It includes the towns of Camperdown, Terang, Cobden, Timboon, Port Campbell and Skipton. It was formed in 1994 from the amalgamation of the Town of Camperdown, Shire of Hampden, Shire of Heytesbury, and parts of the Shire of Otway, Shire of Mortlake and Shire of Warrnambool.
The Shire is governed and administered by the Corangamite Shire Council; its seat of local government and administrative centre is located at the council headquarters in Camperdown. The Shire is named after the major geographical feature in the region, Lake Corangamite, which is located on the eastern boundary of the LGA.
It came into existence on 23 September 1994 through the amalgamation of the local government areas of Camperdown Town, Hampden Shire (part), Heytesbury Shire (part), Mortlake Shire (part), Otway Shire (part) & Warrnambool Shire (part).
The council is composed of five wards and seven councillors, with three councillors elected to represent the Central Ward and one councillor per remaining ward elected to represent each of the other wards.[3]
| Ward | Party | Councillor | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central | Independent | Geraldine Conheady | |||
| Independent | Ruth Gstrein | ||||
| Independent | Laurie Hickey | ||||
| Coastal | Independent | Jamie Vogels | |||
| North | Independent | Nicholas Cole | |||
| South Central | Independent | Joanne Beard | |||
| South-West | Independent | Kate Makin | |||
The Council meets at the Killara Centre in Camperdown while its main Council offices are located at 181 Manifold Street.
In the 2021 census, the shire had a population of 16,115, compared to 16,051 in the 2016 census.[4]
| Population | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Locality | 2016 | 2021 | |
| ^ | 44 | 39 | |
| ^ | 40 | 37 | |
| 163 | 159 | ||
| 146 | 142 | ||
| 83 | 85 | ||
| 59 | 46 | ||
| ^ | 116 | 127 | |
| 17 | 19 | ||
| 3,369 | 3,354 | ||
| ^ | 135 | 168 | |
| ^ | 134 | 115 | |
| ^ | 36 | 42 | |
| 67 | 61 | ||
| 1,839 | 1,804 | ||
| 80 | 72 | ||
| 364 | 311 | ||
| 37 | 34 | ||
| ^ | 175 | 176 | |
| ^ | 9 | 10 | |
| 28 | 25 | ||
| ^ | 124 | 125 | |
| ^ | 107 | 84 | |
| 415 | 386 | ||
| 131 | 148 | ||
| 33 | 23 | ||
| Population | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Locality | 2016 | 2021 | |
| ^ | 188 | 222 | |
| 55 | 57 | ||
| 78 | 118 | ||
| 19 | 31 | ||
| ^ | 243 | 248 | |
| ^ | 13 | 19 | |
| 135 | 131 | ||
| ^ | 56 | 63 | |
| 108 | 123 | ||
| 99 | 120 | ||
| 52 | 39 | ||
| 29 | 16 | ||
| ^ | 188 | 185 | |
| 94 | 94 | ||
| 42 | 44 | ||
| 29 | 28 | ||
| ^ | 142 | 188 | |
| 64 | 66 | ||
| 420 | 472 | ||
| 51 | 44 | ||
| ^ | 58 | 61 | |
| 71 | 66 | ||
| 69 | 59 | ||
| ^ | 14 | 12 | |
| ^ | 333 | 318 | |
| 20 | 17 | ||
| Population | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Locality | 2016 | 2021 | |
| 31 | 36 | ||
| ^ | 247 | 322 | |
| ^ | 113 | 132 | |
| ^ | 15 | 12 | |
| 62 | 73 | ||
| 25 | 42 | ||
| 71 | 48 | ||
| 478 | 440 | ||
| 241 | 236 | ||
| 248 | 214 | ||
| ^ | 569 | 583 | |
| 65 | 70 | ||
| ^ | 586 | 609 | |
| 109 | 124 | ||
| ^ | 51 | 65 | |
| 19 | 46 | ||
| ^ | 22 | 25 | |
| ^ | 2,288 | 2,254 | |
| 112 | 110 | ||
| 1,202 | 1,250 | ||
| 54 | 57 | ||
| 39 | 37 | ||
| 28 | 32 | ||
| 15 | 0 | ||
| 6 | 11 | ||
| 117 | 121 | ||
| ^ | 60 | 66 | |