| Type: | lga |
| Shire of Indigo | |
| State: | vic |
| Pop: | 17,368 |
| Area: | 2040 |
| Est: | 1994 |
| Gazetted: | 18 November 1994[1] |
| Mayor: | Bernard Gaffney |
| Seat: | Beechworth |
| Region: | Hume |
| Url: | http://www.indigoshire.vic.gov.au |
| Stategov: | Benambra |
| Fedgov: | Indi |
| Near-Nw: | Federation (NSW) |
| Near-N: | Greater Hume (NSW) |
| Near-Ne: | Wodonga |
| Near-W: | Moira |
| Near-E: | Towong |
| Near-Sw: | Wangaratta |
| Near-S: | Alpine |
| Near-Se: | Towong |
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 2040km2 and in August 2021 had a population of 17,368.
It includes the towns of Beechworth, Chiltern, Rutherglen and Yackandandah. It formed in 1994 from the amalgamation of the Shire of Rutherglen, Shire of Chiltern, Shire of Yackandandah and United Shire of Beechworth.
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.[2]
As of 22 September 2016, the council is composed of seven councillors elected to represent an unsubdivided municipality.[3]
| Ward | Councillor | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unsubdivided | Jenny O'Connor | Mayor, Member of the Greens[4] | ||
| Sophie Price | Deputy Mayor | |||
| Bernard Gaffney | ||||
| James Trenery | ||||
| Barbara Murdoch | ||||
| Larry Goldsworthy | ||||
| Diane Shepheard | ||||
The makeup of the council is as follows:[5]
| Party | Councillors | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unaligned | align=right | 6 | ||
| Greens | align=right | 1 | ||
| Total | align=right | 7 | ||
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.
The 2021 census, the shire had a population of 17,368 up from 15,952 in the 2016 census[6]
| Population | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Locality | 2016 | 2021 | |
| 318 | 297 | ||
| 904 | 987 | ||
| 3,859 | 4,274 | ||
| 171 | 181 | ||
| 102 | 99 | ||
| 77 | 114 | ||
| 79 | 82 | ||
| Population | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Locality | 2016 | 2021 | |
| 73 | 82 | ||
| 1,605 | 1,580 | ||
| 60 | 77 | ||
| 96 | 94 | ||
| 58 | 62 | ||
| Gundowring^ | 214 | 208 | |
| 219 | 206 | ||
| Population | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Locality | 2016 | 2021 | |
| 329 | 346 | ||
| 215 | 232 | ||
| 474 | 483 | ||
| 76 | 84 | ||
| 118 | 130 | ||
| 233 | 285 | ||
| 2,378 | 2,579 | ||
| Population | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Locality | 2016 | 2021 | |
| 179 | 200 | ||
| Staghorn Flat^ | 293 | 368 | |
| 364 | 371 | ||
| 542 | 908 | ||
| 1,098 | 1,061 | ||
| 345 | 342 | ||
| 1,811 | 2,008 | ||