The Municipality of Ashfield was a local government area in the Inner West of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

[4] Local issues in the area, before the forced merge into Inner West Council, included the redevelopment of Ashfield Mall and concerns about overdevelopment in general;[5] construction of the M4 East tunnel because it might lead to increased traffic and pollution;[6] and the general state of the commercial area, which one councillor labelled 'Trashfield'.

A 2015 review of local government boundaries recommended that the Municipality of Ashfield merge with the Municipality of Leichhardt and the Marrickville Council to form a new council with an area of 35 square kilometres (14 sq mi) and support a population of approximately 186,000.

[12][13] The median weekly income for residents within the Municipality of Ashfield of was generally on par with the national average.

[1] At the 2011 Census, the proportion of residents in Ashfield local government area who stated their ancestry as Chinese was in excess of four times the state and national averages; and the proportion of households where an Asian language was spoken at home was about six times higher than the national average.

As the attached table shows, Labor outpolled all other parties in the area at the final federal, state and council elections before the merge.

The last election was held on 13 September 2012, and the makeup of the council for the term 2012–16, in order of election by ward, was as follows:[18][19][20][21] Ashfield Council launched a new logo and branding in August 2008, described as an "urban map" of various images representing various buildings and forms in the local area.