Campaspe Shire is located 180 km directly north of Melbourne on both the Murray and Goulburn Rivers. It is a popular tourist and retirement destination. The main industries include dairying; tourism; food processing; cereal cropping; tomatoes; sheep/wool; aquaculture; floriculture; vegetables; feed lotting; viticulture; beef cattle and rice.

	2012-13	2011-12	2010-11	2009-10
Expenditure ($)	67.449m	70.004m	61.898m	58.541m
Revenue ($)	80.290m	80.126m	67.377m	59.669m
- Charges ($)	31.706m	29.788m	27.696m	25.013m
- VGC Grants ($)	10.822m	10.762m	9.715m	9.179m