City of Vincent

The City of Vincent is a local government area of Western Australia. It covers an area of approximately 10.4 square kilometres (4.0 sq mi) in metropolitan Perth, the capital of Western Australia, and lies about 3 km from the Perth CBD. The City of Vincent maintains 139 km of roads and 104 ha of parks and gardens. It had a population of 31,549 at the 2011 census.

The city was known as the Town of Vincent before gaining city status on 1 July 2011.

History

The City of Vincent is named after the street of that name that runs through it, which itself was believed to have been named by the chief draftsman in the Lands Department, George Vincent, after himself in about 1876. George Vincent was the recipient of the land on the north side of the street, east of Charles Street, in the first Crown grant of Perth.^[2]

On 1 July 1994, the restructure of the City of Perth by the Government of Western Australia created three new local governments: the Town of Vincent, the Town of Cambridge and the Town of Shepperton (now the Town of Victoria Park), plus a smaller City of Perth.

Suburbs

Coolbinia (shared with City of Stirling)
East Perth (shared with City of Perth)
Highgate
Leederville
Mount Hawthorn
Mount Lawley (shared with City of Stirling)
North Perth
Perth (shared with City of Perth)
West Perth (shared with City of Perth)

Population

Year	Population
1991	24,765
1996	24,422
2001	24,761
2006	26,878
2011	31,549

Sister cities

The City of Vincent has signed a friendship charter with the city of Prilep, in Macedonia.

References

↑ "3218.0 Regional Population Growth, Australia. Table 5. Estimated Resident Population, Local Government Areas, Western Australia". 3 April 2014. Retrieved 11 September 2014.
↑ "History of Vincent". City of Vincent. Retrieved 1 March 2014.

External links

Official website
Town of Vincent Heritage Inventory - Thematic History, a "time-lined thematic overview of development within this area from the period of first European settlement to the present"

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: 31°56′10″S 115°50′02″E / 31.936°S 115.834°E / -31.936; 115.834

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