Moe, Victoria

Moe Victoria
Streetscape in central Moe
Moe
Coordinates	38°10′20″S 146°16′04″E / 38.17222°S 146.26778°E / -38.17222; 146.26778
Population	9,375 (2021 census)[1]
• Density	89.03/km2 (230.59/sq mi)
Postcode(s)	3825
Area	105.3 km2 (40.7 sq mi)[2] (2011 urban)
Location	130 km (81 mi) from Melbourne 12 km (7 mi) from Morwell
LGA(s)	City of Latrobe Shire of Baw Baw
County	Buln Buln
State electorate(s)	Morwell Narracan
Federal division(s)	Monash

Moe (/ˈmoʊi/ ^ⓘ MOH-ee)^[3] is a town in the Latrobe Valley in the Gippsland region of Victoria, Australia. It is approximately 130 kilometres (80 miles) east of the central business district of Melbourne, 45 kilometres (30 miles) due south of the peak of Mount Baw Baw in the Great Dividing Range and features views of the Baw Baw Ranges to the north and Strzelecki Ranges to the south.

At June 2018, Moe had an estimated urban population of 16,812^[4] (including Newborough). The population has been slowly shrinking with an average annual rate of -0.1% year-on-year for the five years to 2018. It is administered by the Latrobe City Council. Moe was originally known as The Mowie, then Little Moi.^{[citation needed]} The town's name is believed to derive from a Kurnai (local Indigenous) word meaning "swamp land".^{[citation needed]}

Moe is a navigation point and stopover for tourists en route to Erica, the historic goldfields township of Walhalla, the Walhalla Goldfields Railway and Mount Baw Baw. Lake Narracan is nearby, and Moe is home to the annual Moe Cup horse races, the Moe Jazz Festival and the recreated historic settlement Old Gippstown. The city has locally produced Aboriginal/Koori art and is regularly home to local Australian Football and Netball Finals in the Gippsland Football & Netball Leagues and the Mid Gippsland Football League. The region is represented by Gippsland Power in the TAC Cup competition.