Benalla Rural City Council

Benalla Rural City is 193km north-east of Melbourne. The current population of Benalla Rural City is 14,024, with approximately 9,000 living in the Benalla urban area and the remainder living in and around our smaller towns. Benalla Rural City is divided by the Hume Freeway with hills, valleys, grazing land and forests to the south and plains and rolling hills used as cropping and grazing land to the north. Our largest employing industries are health, manufacturing and agriculture.