City of Ballarat

City of Ballarat Victoria
Map of the City of Ballarat's municipal borders, urban areas and location in Victoria
Population	107,325 (2018)[1]
• Density	145.23/km2 (376.14/sq mi)
Established	6 May 1994
Gazetted	6 May 1994[2]
Area	739 km2 (285.3 sq mi)[1]
Mayor	Cr Des Hudson
Council seat	Central
Region	Grampians
State electorate(s)	Eureka Ripon Wendouree
Federal division(s)	Ballarat
Website	City of Ballarat
LGAs around City of Ballarat: Pyrenees Hepburn Hepburn Pyrenees City of Ballarat Moorabool Golden Plains Golden Plains Moorabool

The City of Ballarat is a local government area in the west of the state of Victoria, Australia. It covers an area of 739 square kilometres (285 sq mi) and, in June 2018, had a population of 107,325.^[1] It is primarily urban with the vast majority of its population living in the Greater Ballarat urban area, while other significant settlements within the LGA include Buninyong, Waubra, Learmonth and Addington. It was formed on 6 May 1994 from the amalgamation of the City of Ballarat, Shire of Ballarat, Borough of Sebastopol and parts of the Shire of Bungaree, Shire of Buninyong, Shire of Grenville and Shire of Ripon.^[2]

The City is governed and administered by the Ballarat City Council; its seat of local government and administrative centre is located at the council headquarters in Ballarat, it also has a service centre located in Buninyong. The City is named after the main urban settlement lying in the centre-south of the LGA, Ballarat, which is also the LGA's most populous urban area with a population of 105,471.^[3]