Your rates at work

a building in Darebin

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.

Darebin: your place, our purpose!

Road and Path Maintenance

Parks and Open Spaces

Decibels Youth Music - Darebin

School crossing supervisors

 

Immunisation Services 

Watch Darebin: your place, our purpose! Immunisation Services on YouTube or below. 

Darebin Resource Recovery Centre

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.

Show Transcript

[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]