Municipality of Ashfield
Municipality of Ashfield | |||||||||||||
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Location in Metropolitan Sydney, 1871–2016 | |||||||||||||
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| Coordinates: 33°53′S 151°08′E / 33.883°S 151.133°E | |||||||||||||
| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | New South Wales | ||||||||||||
| Region | Inner West | ||||||||||||
| Established | 28 December 1871 | ||||||||||||
| Abolished | 12 May 2016 | ||||||||||||
| Council seat | Civic Centre, Ashfield | ||||||||||||
| Area | |||||||||||||
• Total | 8 km2 (3.1 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Population | |||||||||||||
| • Total | 41,214 (2011 census) | ||||||||||||
| • Density | 4,971.5/km2 (12,876/sq mi) | ||||||||||||
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The Municipality of Ashfield was a local government area in the Inner West of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) west of the Sydney central business district. The municipality was proclaimed on 28 December 1871 as the "Borough of Ashfield", which changed to the "Municipality of Ashfield" in 1906. On 12 May 2016, Ashfield merged with Marrickville Council and the Municipality of Leichhardt to form the Inner West Council.
The last mayor of the municipality was councillor Lucille McKenna, a member of the Australian Labor Party.
In December 2021, a majority of voters in Inner West Council voted in favour of reversing the 2016 merger and separating the three pre-existing councils of Ashfield, Leichhardt and Marrickville.