Rural City of Mildura
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Rural City of Mildura Victoria |
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Location in Victoria
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| Population | 53,015 (2015 est) | ||||||||||||
| • Density | 2.3742/km2 (6.1490/sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Established | 1995 | ||||||||||||
| Gazetted | 20 January 1995 | ||||||||||||
| Area | 22,330 km2 (8,621.7 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Mayor | Cr Glenn Milne | ||||||||||||
| Council seat | Mildura | ||||||||||||
| Region | Western Victoria | ||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Mildura | ||||||||||||
| Federal Division(s) | Mallee | ||||||||||||
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| Website | Rural City of Mildura | ||||||||||||
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The Rural City of Mildura is a local government area in Victoria, Australia, located in the north-western part of the state. It covers an area of 22,330 square kilometres (8,620 sq mi) and, at the 2011 Census, had a population of 50,979. It includes the city of Mildura and the towns of Merbein, Red Cliffs, Irymple, Ouyen, Werrimull, Murrayville, Walpeup and Hattah. It was formed in 1995 from the amalgamation of the City of Mildura, Shire of Mildura and Shire of Walpeup.
The Rural City is governed and administered by the Mildura Rural City Council; its seat of local government and administrative centre is located at the council headquarters in Mildura, it also has service centres located in Ouyen and a couple of other locations within Mildura. The Rural City is named after the main urban settlement lying in the north of the LGA, that is Mildura, which is also the LGA's most populous urban centre with a population of 30,647.
The Rural City of Mildura covers most of the Mallee region of Victoria. Before the less infertile soils were fertilised and developed for the production of wheat and barley the whole region was covered in a dense mallee scrub of deep-rooting eucalypts that regenerated after the frequent bushfires in the region. Many of the soils are so sandy that clearing is impractical, and Murray-Sunset National Park covers almost a third of the area of the LGA. Other protected areas include Hattah-Kulkyne National Park and Murray-Kulkyne Park on the Murray River.
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