The City of Knox is situated in the outer eastern metropolitan area. It is a large municipality that has passed through a period of rapid housing and business development over the past three decades. Knox is now emerging from this period of high growth to a time of maturation and consolidation. While Knox has a large residential population base, it also has substantial local employment in business, retail and manufacturing. The main industries include other chemical product manufacturing, other food manufacturing.

	2012-13	2011-12	2010-11	2009-10
Expenditure ($)	125.742m	137.609m	122.578m	112.069m
Revenue ($)	133.489m	132.866m	128.176m	122.512m
- Charges ($)	88.537m	83.725m	78.055m	72.925m
- VGC Grants ($)	7.616m	7.665m	7.564m	7.288m