City of Casey
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City of Casey Victoria |
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Map of Melbourne showing City of Casey
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| Population | 292,211 (2015) (8th) | ||||||||||||
| • Density | 712.88/km2 (1,846.36/sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Established | 1994 | ||||||||||||
| Area | 409.9 km2 (158.3 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Mayor | Sam Aziz | ||||||||||||
| Council seat | Narre Warren | ||||||||||||
| Region | Southeast Metropolitan Melbourne | ||||||||||||
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| Website | City of Casey | ||||||||||||
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| Casey City Council | |
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Council of the City of Casey
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Council political groups
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Liberal: 6 seats
Labor: 1 seat
Rise Up Australia: 1 seat
Independent: 3 seat
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The City of Casey is a local government area in Victoria, Australia in the outer south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne. Casey is Victoria's most populous municipality, with a 2011 census population of 252,382. The municipality's population is predicted to reach 297,034 in 2016. It has an area of 409.9 square kilometres (158.3 sq mi).
The city is named after Lord Casey, the 16th Governor-General of Australia, and was formed in 1994 by the merger of most of the City of Berwick with parts of Shire of Cranbourne (including Cranbourne itself), and the Churchill Park Drive estate within the City of Knox.
Casey spreads from the base of the Dandenong Ranges in the north to the shoreline of Western Port in the south. It features a wide variety of geographical features, due to its outer metropolitan location.
The north, in the foothills of the Dandenongs, is primarily made up of large blocks of land used for grazing, with some small vineyards in operation. An Urban Growth Boundary has been in place since 2005 to protect this area from future residential subdivision.
South of Cranbourne is mainly farmland, used for market gardening and grazing. A small number of flower farms exist around Junction Village, along with a large chicken processing plant in Clyde. This green area has now been opened up for housing development, in the areas of Cranbourne East, Clyde and Clyde North.
The southern boundary of the municipality is the Western Port shoreline including the fishing villages of Tooradin, Blind Bight, Warneet and Cannons Creek. Protected marine reserves exist along this coastline and extend into the Mornington Peninsula at Pearcedale.
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