What your rates pay for
Your rates help us deliver more than 100 services and programs that help make Yarra a fantastic place to live, work, and play.
Rates are the main way we fund our work. In our 2025/26 Budget, rates accounted for 57% of our revenue, helping us:
- make repairs to roads, footpaths and other essential infrastructure as part of our capital works plan
- deliver 186 community grants
- plant 1,173 trees, which you can see on our urban forest dashboard
- maintain 260 hectares of parks, reserves and playgrounds
- divert 42.46% of waste from landfill to recycling, helping support our climate action plan
- administer 6,301 immunisations
- deliver 14,130 meals to older residents
- teach 108,517 swimming lessons
- loan 779,648 books, ebooks and audiobooks through our libraries.
Learn more from our 2026/27 rates brochure [ PDF, 4.35 MB] .
