Shire of Indigo
Shire of Indigo | |||||||||||||
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Location in Victoria | |||||||||||||
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| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | Victoria | ||||||||||||
| Region | Hume | ||||||||||||
| Established | 1994 | ||||||||||||
| Council seat | Beechworth | ||||||||||||
| Government | |||||||||||||
| • Mayor | Bernard Gaffney | ||||||||||||
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| Area | |||||||||||||
• Total | 2,040 km2 (790 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Population | |||||||||||||
| • Total | 17,368 (2021 census) | ||||||||||||
| • Density | 8.514/km2 (22.05/sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Gazetted | 18 November 1994 | ||||||||||||
| Website | Shire of Indigo | ||||||||||||
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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 mi2) and in August 2021 had a population of 17,368. It includes the larger towns of Beechworth, Chiltern, Rutherglen, Wahgunyah and Yackandandah, the smaller towns of Barnawartha and Tangambalanga, and surrounding rural areas.
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.