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Shire of Indigo
Victoria
Shire of Indigo; Victoria
	Location in Victoria
Population	17,368 (2021 census)
• Density	8.514/km2 (22.05/sq mi)
Established	1994
Gazetted	18 November 1994
Area	2,040 km2 (787.6 sq mi)
Mayor	Bernard Gaffney
Council seat	Beechworth
Region	Hume
State electorate(s)	Benambra
Federal division(s)	Indi
Website	Shire of Indigo
	LGAs around Shire of Indigo:

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 2,040 square kilometres (790 sq mi) and in August 2021 had a population of 17,368.^[1]

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.^[2]

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.^[3]

Council

Current composition

As of 22 September 2016, the council is composed of seven councillors elected to represent an unsubdivided municipality.^[4]

Ward		Notes
Unsubdivided	Jenny O'Connor	Mayor, Member of the Greens^[5]
	Sophie Price	Deputy Mayor
	Bernard Gaffney
	James Trenery
	Barbara Murdoch
	Larry Goldsworthy
	Diane Shepheard

The makeup of the council is as follows:^[6]

Party		Councillors
	Unaligned	6
	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^[7]

Population
Locality	2016	2021
Allans Flat	318	297
Barnawartha	904	987
Beechworth	3,859	4,274
Brimin	171	181
Browns Plains	102	99
Bruarong	77	114
Carlyle	79	82

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

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

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

^ - Territory divided with another LGA

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Indigo (Local Government Area)". 2021 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 17 November 2023.
^ ^a ^b Victoria Government Gazette – Online Archive (1837–1997). "S87 of 1994: Order estg (Part 3) the Shire of Indigo". State Library of Victoria. State Government of Victoria (published 18 November 1994). p. 3. Retrieved 10 January 2014.
^ "BankWest Quality of Life Index 2008" (PDF). Bankwest. 20 August 2008. p. 8. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 February 2009. Retrieved 3 September 2008.
^ Local Government in Victoria. "Indigo Shire Council". Department of Transport, Planning and Local Infrastructure. State Government of Victoria. Retrieved 10 January 2014.
^ "Jenny the region's first Green". The Border Mail. 29 October 2012. Retrieved 31 October 2012.
^ VEC. "Results for Indigo Shire Council Elections 2012". Victorian Electoral Commission. Victorian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 31 October 2012.
^ "Census | Australian Bureau of Statistics". www.abs.gov.au. 11 January 2023.