Editing Local government in Australia (section)

=== Local governments by type and state ===
The following table provides a summary of local government areas by states and territories by local government area types as of December 2023:
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align: right"
!Local government area types
![[Local government areas of New South Wales|NSW]]
![[Local government areas of Victoria|Vic]]
![[Local government areas of Queensland|Qld]]
![[Local government areas of Western Australia|WA]]
![[Local government areas of South Australia|SA]]
![[Local government areas of Tasmania|Tas]]
![[Local government areas of the Northern Territory|NT]]
![[Government of the Australian Capital Territory|ACT]]<ref>The Australian Capital Territory does not have a separate system of local government such as that seen in other states and the Northern Territory. Local government functions in the ACT are instead handled directly by the Territory government. The [[Australian Bureau of Statistics]] refers to the whole of the ACT as an unincorporated local government area.</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=2016 Census QuickStats: Unincorporated ACT|url=https://quickstats.censusdata.abs.gov.au/census_services/getproduct/census/2016/quickstat/LGA89399?opendocument|access-date=2020-08-01|website=quickstats.censusdata.abs.gov.au|language=en}}</ref>
!Total
|-
|align=left| [[Australian Aboriginals|Aboriginal]] [[Municipal council#Australia|councils]] |||  ||  ||  ||  |||2  |||  ||  ||  |||'''2'''
|-
|align=left| [[Australian Aboriginals|Aboriginal]] [[shire]]s |||  ||  |||12 ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  |||'''12'''
|-
|align=left| [[Borough#Australia|Boroughs]] ||| |||1 ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  |||'''1'''
|-
|align=left| [[City|Cities]] |||30 |||34 |||8 |||27 |||21 |||6 |||2 ||  |||'''128'''
|-
|align=left| [[Municipal council#Australia|Councils]] |||32<ref name="areas">All LGAs in New South Wales that are not cities are classified as "areas" in the Local Government Act. Some may choose to retain their titles held under older versions of the act, tabulated here. Others have no title and refer to themselves as "[geographical area] Council".</ref> ||  ||  ||  ||17 ||23 ||2  ||  |||'''74'''
|-
|align=left| [[Local government areas of South Australia|District councils]] |||  ||  ||  ||  |||23 ||  ||  ||  |||'''23'''
|-
|align=left| [[Municipality|Municipalities]] |||2<ref name="areas"/> ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  |||'''2'''
|-
|align=left| [[Municipal council#Australia|Regional councils]] |||9<ref name="areas"/> ||  |||29 |||  |||4 ||  ||9 ||  |||'''51'''
|-
|align=left| [[Rural area|Rural]] [[City|cities]] |||  |||6 ||  ||  |||1 ||  ||  ||  |||'''7'''
|-
|align=left| [[Shire]]s |||55<ref name="areas"/> |||38 |||28 |||104 ||  ||  ||2 ||  |||'''227'''
|-
|align=left| [[Town#Australia|Towns]] |||  ||  |||1 |||8 |||2 ||  |||2 ||  |||'''13'''
|-
|align=left| '''Sub-total''' |||'''128''' |||'''79''' |||'''78''' |||'''139''' |||'''70''' |||'''29''' |||'''17''' ||| '''0''' |||'''540'''
|-
|align=left| [[Unincorporated area|Unincorporated]] |||2 |||9 ||  ||2 |||1 ||  |||7 |||1 ||'''22'''
|-
|align=left| '''Total''' |||'''130''' |||'''88''' |||'''78''' |||'''141''' |||'''71''' |||'''29''' |||'''24''' |||'''1''' |||'''562'''
|}
Note the above table does not include the [[County council (New South Wales)|county councils]] of New South Wales, which while a form of local government are not classified as being local government areas.