Your rates at work
Rates are used to pay for services such as garbage collection, lighting, parks, libraries, roads, emergency services, community care and more. You can find out how $100 of your rates is spent in 2024/25(PDF, 877KB)
Rates are used by Council to pay for local services including garbage collection, street lighting, street cleaning, parks, libraries, local roads, footpaths, drains, emergency services, home and community care services.
For every $100 you spend on rates, you are helping fund your local community in the following areas with specified amounts. Note, data is for the 2023/24 financial year.
| Areas you're helping fund in your community |
Amount ($) |
| Planning and Development |
6.24 |
| Economic Development and COVID Recovery |
1.22 |
| Buildings and Assets |
5.58 |
| Parks and Open Spaces |
9.34 |
| Environment and Amenity |
9.34 |
| Waste Collection and Sweeping |
14.34 |
| Road maintenance |
3.61 |
| Supported and Connected Living |
9.04 |
| Family Services |
8.75 |
| Culture and leisure |
10.37 |
| Libraries |
3.69 |
| Capital works |
18.48 |
| Total |
100.00 |
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Immunisation Services
Our Immunisation Service is just one of the many services we offer at Darebin City Council. Hear from Will, self-confessed needle-phobic and current Business Support Officer for the Immunisation team about why he thinks immunisation services are important to our community. Watch Darebin: your place, our purpose! Immunisation Services on YouTube or below.
Darebin Resource Recovery Centre
The Darebin Resource Recovery Centre, also known as DRRC is another great service and centre at Darebin. Follow Said (sai-eed), Shop and Gatehouse Officer and all round great bloke at DRRC while he takes us on a tour of the centre. He tells us what he enjoys most about working at DRRC, the main reasons for the centre and how it supports both local and broader communities. Watch Darebin: your place, our purpose! Darebin Resource Recovery Centre on YouTube or below.
Rates
Some helpful information about rates. Watch on YouTube or below.
[Music intro, opening slide of City of Darebin logo, wording the place to live] [Russell outside on a footpath, holding a bike. Russell talking to camera] Hi, I'm Russell, nice to meet you. If you're a property owner in Darebin, you need to know about rates. At first, I didn't understand why I had to pay so much money. But then it was explained to me. It's the trees. It's the footpath, the road, even things like getting my bins picked up. It's everyday things it's paid for by my rates. 00:25 [Russell holding a large card with the wording 30th September, 30th November, 28th February,31st May]
Russell00:03 You can pay your rates in four separate instalments throughout the year just like I do. Now it's over to our neighbours to tell you more. [Music, fading closing slide of City of Darebin logo, wording the place to live] [End of Transcript]