Shire of Hepburn

Template:Use Australian English Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox Australian place The Shire of Hepburn is a local government area in Victoria, Australia, located in the central part of the state. It covers an area of Template:Convert and, in the 2021 Census the shire had a population of 16,604.<ref name=ABSLGA/>

It includes the towns of Clunes, Creswick, Daylesford, Hepburn Springs and Trentham and the villages of Glenlyon, Allendale, Kingston, Leonard's Hill, Lyonville, Newlyn, Denver and Smeaton.

It was formed in 1995 from the amalgamation of the Shire of Creswick, Shire of Daylesford and Glenlyon and parts of the Shire of Kyneton and Shire of Talbot and Clunes.<ref name=Gazette />

The shire is governed and administered by the Hepburn Shire Council; its seat of local government and administrative centre is located at the council headquarters in Daylesford. It also has a service centre located in Creswick. The shire is named after an early squatter named John Hepburn, who established the Smeaton Hill pastoral run, which was located a few kilometres north of present-day Creswick.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Council

Current composition

The council is composed of five wards and seven councillors, with two councillors per ward elected to represent each of the Creswick and Birch wards, and one councillor per remaining ward elected to represent each of the other wards. As of 2020, the councillors are:<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Ward	Party		Councillor	Notes
Birch	Template:Australian party style|	Independent	Jen Bray
	Template:Australian party style|	Independent	Lesley Hewitt
Cameron	Template:Australian party style|	Independent	Tessa Halliday
Coliban	Template:Australian party style|	Independent	Brian Hood
Creswick	Template:Australian party style|	Independent	Don Henderson
	Template:Australian party style|	Greens	Tim Drylie
Holcombe	Template:Australian party style|	Independent	Juliet Simpson

Administration and governance

The council meets in the council chambers at the council headquarters in the Daylesford Municipal Offices, which is also the location of the council's administrative activities. It also provides customer services at both its administrative centre in Daylesford, and its service centre in Creswick.

Townships and localities

In the 2021 census, the shire had a population of 16,604, up from 15,330 in the 2016 census.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Population
Locality	2016	2021
Template:VICcity	166	185
Template:VICcity^	107	114
Template:VICcity	10	23
Template:VICcity	212	237
Template:VICcity	228	213
Template:VICcity^	99	77
Template:VICcity	73	89
Template:VICcity^	33	48
Template:VICcity^	51	63
Template:VICcity	18	10
Template:VICcity^	55	51
Template:VICcity	1,728	1,844
Template:VICcity	58	62
Template:VICcity	252	308
Template:VICcity^	3,170	3,279
Template:VICcity	58	55
Template:VICcity	2,548	2,781
Template:VICcity	120	132
Template:VICcity^	150	148
Template:VICcity^	283	294

Population
Locality	2016	2021
Template:VICcity^	187	203
Template:VICcity	25	41
Template:VICcity	203	206
Template:VICcity	37	39
Template:VICcity^	131	147
Template:VICcity^	104	125
Template:VICcity^	66	71
Template:VICcity^	13	15
Template:VICcity	389	431
Template:VICcity^	333	330
Template:VICcity	599	631
Template:VICcity	329	368
Template:VICcity	177	190
Template:VICcity	28	41
Template:VICcity^	168	196
Template:VICcity	21	23
Template:VICcity	17	8
Template:VICcity	45	47
Template:VICcity^	29	85

Population
Locality	2016	2021
Template:VICcity	62	74
Template:VICcity	175	189
Template:VICcity^	831	905
Template:VICcity^	89	105
Template:VICcity	9	15
Template:VICcity^	9	15
Template:VICcity	89	99
Template:VICcity	41	41
Template:VICcity	150	177
Template:VICcity	132	170
Template:VICcity	71	84
Template:VICcity	128	136
Template:VICcity	174	230
Template:VICcity	51	50
Template:VICcity	122	149
Template:VICcity	62	43
Template:VICcity	62	79
Template:VICcity	81	72
Template:VICcity	66	71

Population
Locality	2016	2021
Template:VICcity	231	245
Template:VICcity	31	32
Template:VICcity^	198	200
Template:VICcity	181	184
Template:VICcity	6	0
Template:VICcity^	87	101
Template:VICcity^	232	234
Template:VICcity^	448	524
Template:VICcity^	21	26
Template:VICcity^	1,180	1,382
Template:VICcity^	153	181
Template:VICcity^	535	645
Template:VICcity	*	#
Template:VICcity	34	25
Template:VICcity^	97	104
Template:VICcity^	275	308
Template:VICcity^	46	43
Template:VICcity	241	252
Template:VICcity	154	181

Template:Columns-end ^ - Territory divided with another LGA
* - Not noted in 2016 Census
# - Not noted in 2021 Census

Traditional owners

The traditional owners of the Shire of Hepburn are the Dja Dja Wurrung.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

External links

• Hepburn Shire Council official website
• PTV local public transport map
• Template:Victorian local government areas pre-1994 vs present map link