Results of 2018‒19 Audits: Local Government

Our dashboard is an interactive visualisation tool summarising the financial statement data for Victoria’s 79 councils.

We grouped councils into five cohorts based on size, demographics and funding:

• metropolitan—predominately urban in character and located within Melbourne’s densely populated urban core
• interface—one of the nine municipalities that form a ring around metropolitan Melbourne
• regional city—urban and partly rural in character
• large shire—a municipality with more than 16 000 inhabitants that is predominantly rural in character
• small shire—a municipality with fewer than 16 000 inhabitants that is predominantly rural in character.

The cohorts are consistent with Local Government Victoria’s classification of council types.