Shire of Serpentine-Jarrahdale

LGAs around Shire of Serpentine Jarrahdale:
Cockburn	Armadale	Armadale
Kwinana Rockingham	Shire of Serpentine Jarrahdale	Wandering
Mandurah	Murray	Boddington

The Shire of Serpentine-Jarrahdale is a local government area in the outer southeastern metropolitan area of Perth, the capital of Western Australia, and has an area of 905 square kilometres (349 sq mi) and a population of 28,000 (2016 est). The Shire's seat of government is the town of Mundijong.

History

The Serpentine Road District was gazetted in December 1894, and in 1913 changed name to Serpentine-Jarrahdale Road District. On 1 July 1961, it became a Shire following the enactment of the Local Government Act 1960. In 1977, it acquired Byford from Shire of Armadale-Kelmscott.^[2]

Wards

The Shire was previously split into four wards named: Byford, Central, North West and South. Recently, the boundaries were realigned and on 29 July 2011, the gazetted^[3] boundaries became:

North (4 councillors)
North West (2 councillors)
Southern (3 councillors)

Elections to fill all positions in these new wards were called for 15 October 2011.

Suburbs and towns

Population

Year	Population
1911	1,454
1921	1,181
1933	1,674
1947	1,709
1954	1,833
1961	1,830
1966	1,728
1971	1,981
1976	3,753
1981	5,039
1986	6,470
1991	8,033
1996	9,749
2001	11,062
2006	12,889
2011	17,746

1911 populations were: Serpentine RD 328; Jarrahdale RD 1,126.
The 1976 figure above, reported from the 1978 year book and 1981 census, is the figure after the addition of 1,634 residents living in Byford and nearby areas, which occurred in 1977.

References

↑ "3218.0 Regional Population Growth, Australia. Table 5. Estimated Resident Population, Local Government Areas, Western Australia". 3 April 2014. Retrieved 11 September 2014.
↑ WA Electoral Commission, Municipality Boundary Amendments Register (release 3.0), 31 May 2007.
↑ "Serpentine-Jarrahdale Local Government (Serpentine-Jarrahdale - New Wards and Councillor Numbers) Order 2011". 29 July 2011. Retrieved 8 September 2011.

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Local government areas of Western Australia

Perth Metropolitan

Cities	Armadale^* Bayswater^* Belmont^* Canning^* Cockburn^* Fremantle^* Gosnells^* Joondalup^* Kwinana^* Melville^* Nedlands^* Perth^* Rockingham^* South Perth^* Stirling^* Subiaco^* Swan^* Vincent^* Wanneroo^*

Towns	Bassendean^† Cambridge^† Claremont^† Cottesloe^† East Fremantle^† Mosman Park^† Victoria Park^†

Shires	Kalamunda Mundaring Peppermint Grove

Gascoyne

Goldfields-Esperance

Great Southern

Kimberley

Mid West

Peel

Pilbara

South West

Wheatbelt

Indian Ocean territories

^* This LGA holds city status under the Local Government Act 1995, ^† This LGA holds town status under the Local Government Act 1995

Coordinates: 32°17′02″S 115°58′23″E / 32.284°S 115.973°E / -32.284; 115.973

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