City of Knox

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The City of Knox is a local government area in Victoria, Australia in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne. It has an area of Template:Convert and in 2020, Knox had a population of 165,147.<ref name=ABSLGA/> This municipality is one of only a handful that survived the widespread municipal amalgamations that occurred in Victoria in the early 1990s.<ref name=":1">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

HistoryEdit

The City of Knox was named after Sir George Hodges Knox (1885–1960), a former soldier and speaker of the Victorian Legislative Assembly.<ref name="VPkc">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The City of Knox Crest incorporates his family's motto 'Move and Prosper'.<ref name="KCCarms">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

The area which is now Knox was once part of the Scoresby Riding of the Shire of Berwick. On 23 May 1889, the riding was severed to create the Shire of Fern Tree Gully, which extended as far east as Olinda and Monbulk in the Dandenong Ranges. Post-World War II development in the area closer to Melbourne led to rapid urbanisation and population growth—over 21,000 residents lived in the Knox area by the 1961 Census. A plebiscite to determine local residents' views led to the creation of the Shire of Knox on 9 October 1963, which was proclaimed on 16 November 1963 by the Governor of Victoria.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> It was declared a City on 4 July 1969. By the 1986 Census, the area was home to over 100,000 residents.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=vmd>Template:Cite book Accessed at State Library of Victoria, La Trobe Reading Room.</ref>

On 15 December 1994, the City of Knox was one of the few councils (and one of only four in Melbourne) to survive the statewide amalgamation and its boundaries extended to add the suburb of Upper Ferntree Gully and part of Lysterfield from the former Shire of Sherbrooke.<ref name=":1" />

WardsEdit

At present, the City of Knox has nine wards, each electing one councillor for a period of four years.<ref name="KCCmc">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Baird ward
Chandler ward
Collier ward
Dinsdale ward
Dobson ward
Friberg ward
Scott ward
Taylor ward
Tirhatuan ward

Prior to 1994, the Council had three wards, each of which elected three councillors:

Bayswater/Wantirna ward
Boronia ward
Rowville/Scoresby ward

CouncilEdit

Knox City Council is composed of nine single-member wards. The mayor and deputy are elected by councillors at an annual meeting in November.<ref name="KCCmc" />

Current compositionEdit

The most recent election was held in October 2024. The current council, as of November 2024, is:

Ward	Party		Councillor	Notes
Baird	Template:Australian party style\|	Independent Labor	Peter Lockwood
Chandler	Template:Australian party style\|	Independent	Paige Kennett
Collier	Template:Australian party style\|	Independent	Chris Duncan
Dinsdale	Template:Australian party style\|	Independent Liberal	Robert Williams
Dobson	Template:Australian party style\|	Independent	Meagan Baker
Friberg	Template:Australian party style\|	Independent Liberal	Parisa Considine
Scott	Template:Australian party style\|	Independent	Lisa Cooper	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Taylor	Template:Australian party style\|	Independent	Susan Pearce
Tirhatuan	Template:Australian party style\|	Independent	Glen Atwell	Deputy Mayor since 22 November 2024<ref name=":0"/>

Election resultsEdit

2024Edit

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Townships and localitiesEdit

The 2021 census, the city had a population of 159,103 up from 154,110 in the 2016 census<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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Population
Locality	2016	2021
Template:VICcity	11,758	12,262
Template:VICcity	22,195	23,607
Template:VICcity	26,428	27,398
Template:VICcity	7,462	7,645
Template:VICcity^	6,663	6,681
Template:VICcity	33,672	33,571
Template:VICcity^	1,061	970
Template:VICcity	6,022	6,066
Template:VICcity	4,416	4,497
Template:VICcity^	3,416	3,417
Template:VICcity	13,818	14,237
Template:VICcity	19,271	20,754