Shire of Mitchell
Mitchell Shire | |||||||||||||
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Location in Victoria | |||||||||||||
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| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | Victoria | ||||||||||||
| Region | Hume Goulburn Valley | ||||||||||||
| Established | 1994 | ||||||||||||
| Council seat | Broadford | ||||||||||||
| Government | |||||||||||||
| • Mayor | Cr Louise Bannister | ||||||||||||
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• Total | 2,862 km2 (1,105 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Population | |||||||||||||
| • Total | 61,362 | ||||||||||||
| • Density | 21.440/km2 (55.530/sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Gazetted | 18 November 1994 | ||||||||||||
| Website | Mitchell Shire | ||||||||||||
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Mitchell Shire is a local government area in the Hume region of Victoria, Australia, located North of Melbourne. It covers an area of 2,862 square kilometres (1,105 mi2) and, in April 2024, had a projected population of 61,362. Larger towns include Beveridge, Broadford, Kilmore, Seymour, Tallarook, Pyalong and Wallan.
The Shire is governed and administered by Mitchell Shire Council; its seat of local government and administrative centre is located at the Council headquarters in Broadford, it also has service centres located in Kilmore, Beveridge, Seymour and Wallan. The Shire is named after an early British surveyor and explorer, Major Thomas Mitchell, who explored the south-eastern part of Australia, and whose return route for his third expedition passed through the present-day LGA.
The Shire is Victoria’s fastest growing regional municipality. By 2041 it is expected that 170,000 people will live in Mitchell Shire. It is anticipated that most of this growth will occur in and around the southern townships of Beveridge, Kilmore/Kilmore East and Wallan.