Rural City of Benalla
Rural City of Benalla | |||||||||||||
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Location in Victoria | |||||||||||||
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| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | Victoria | ||||||||||||
| Region | Hume | ||||||||||||
| Established | 2002 | ||||||||||||
| Council seat | Benalla | ||||||||||||
| Government | |||||||||||||
| • Mayor | Cr Danny Claridge | ||||||||||||
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• Total | 2,353 km2 (908 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Population | |||||||||||||
| • Total | 14,528 (2021 census) | ||||||||||||
| • Density | 6.1742/km2 (15.991/sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Gazetted | 17 October 2002 | ||||||||||||
| Website | Rural City of Benalla | ||||||||||||
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The Rural City of Benalla is a local government area in the Hume region of Victoria, Australia, located in the north-east part of the state. It covers an area of 2,353 square kilometres (908 mi2) and, in August 2021, had a population of 14,528.
It includes the towns of Baddaginnie, Benalla, Devenish, Goorambat, Major Plains, Swanpool, Tatong, Thoona, Warrenbayne and Winton. It was formed in 2002 from the de-amalgamation of the Delatite Shire into the current rural city and the Shire of Mansfield, the former being a merger between the latter, the Shire of Benalla and the City of Benalla.
The Rural City is governed and administered by the Benalla Rural City Council; its seat of local government and administrative centre is located at the council headquarters in Benalla. The Rural City is named after the main urban settlement located in the centre-north of the LGA, that is Benalla, which is also the LGA's most populous urban centre with a population of 10,331.