Rural City of Wodonga
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Wodonga Council Victoria |
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Wodonga within Victoria
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Council Offices in Wodonga
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| Population | 38,559 (2015 est) | ||||||||||||
| • Density | 89.05/km2 (230.64/sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Established | 1876 | ||||||||||||
| Gazetted | 18 November 1994 | ||||||||||||
| Area | 433 km2 (167.2 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Mayor | Cr Anna Speedie | ||||||||||||
| Council seat | Wodonga | ||||||||||||
| Region | Hume | ||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Benambra | ||||||||||||
| Federal Division(s) | Indi | ||||||||||||
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| Website | Wodonga Council | ||||||||||||
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Wodonga Council 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 433 square kilometres (167 sq mi) and, at the 2011 Census, had a population of 35,519. It is primarily urban with the vast majority of its population living in the Greater Wodonga urban area, while other significant settlements within the LGA include Bandiana and Bonegilla. Its floral and fauna emblems are pink heath and the Leadbeater's possum respectively—the same as those of the state of Victoria. It is one of only a few regional councils in Victoria to remain serving just one urban district after the amalgamation process of 1994, although through that process it did gained some portions of the former Shire of Chiltern and former Shire of Yackandandah.
The city is governed and administered by the Wodonga Council; its seat of local government and administrative centre is located at the council headquarters in Wodonga. The city is named after the main urban settlement located in the north-east of the LGA, that is Wodonga, which is also the LGA's most populous urban centre with a population of 16,487. It provides governance for the Victorian part of the Albury-Wodonga urban area.
Wodonga was first surveyed in 1852 and proclaimed the town of Belvoir in the same year. In 1876 the Victorian colonial government granted a request from the people of the area for their district to be severed from the Shire of Yackandandah to form a new municipality, and on 10 March 1876, the Shire of Wodonga was incorporated. On 12 April 1911 it annexed a further part of Yackandandah, and on 30 March 1973, Wodonga was proclaimed a Rural City by the Governor of Victoria, Sir Rohan Delacombe.
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