Shire of Hepburn

Hepburn Shire Council
Victoria
Hepburn Shire Council; Victoria
	Location in Victoria
Population	15,812 (2018)
• Density	10.735/km2 (27.802/sq mi)
Established	1995
Gazetted	19 January 1995
Area	1,473 km2 (568.7 sq mi)
Mayor	Cr
Council seat	Daylesford
Region	Western Victoria
State electorate(s)	Macedon; Ripon;
Federal division(s)	Ballarat
Website	Hepburn Shire Council
	LGAs around Hepburn Shire Council:

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 1,473 square kilometres (569 sq mi) and, in June 2018 had a population of 15,812.^[1]

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.^[2]

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.^[3]

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 current councillors are:^[4]

Ward		Councillor
Birch	Independent	Jen Bray
Birch	Independent	Lesley Hewitt
Cameron	Independent	Tessa Halliday
Coliban	Independent	Brian Hood
Creswick	Independent	Don Henderson
Creswick	Independent	Tim Drylie
Holcombe	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.

Towns and localities[]

Population
Locality	Total
Allendale	166
Bald Hills	107
	10
Blampied	212
	228
	99
Bullarto	73
	33
	18
Campbelltown	55
Clunes	1,728
Clydesdale	58
	252
Creswick	3,170
	58
Daylesford	2,548
Dean	120
Denver	150

Population
Locality	Total
Drummond	283
	25
	58
Eganstown	203
	37
	131
	104
Franklinford	66
	13
Glenlyon	389
Guildford	333
	599
Hepburn Springs	329
Invermay	835
Kingston	177
	28
	168
	21

Population
Locality	Total
	17
Leonards Hill	45
	62
Lyonville	175
	89
	89
	41
Musk	150
	132
Newbury	71
Newlyn	128
	174
North Blackwood	51
	122
	62
Sailors Falls	62
	81
Sandon	81

Population
Locality	Total
Shepherds Flat	66
Smeaton	231
	31
	198
	181
Stony Creek	6
Strangways	87
Sulky	232
	21
Trentham	1,180
Trentham East	153
	34
Waubra	275
Wattle Flat	97
	46
	241
Yandoit	154
	28