The Municipality of St Peters was a local government area of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

With an area of 4.2 square kilometres, it included the modern suburbs of St Peters, Tempe and Sydenham.

[6] The first elected council: By the late 1890s, the municipality had grown in population to around 7000, with manufacturing and industry playing a greater role, particularly brickworks fed by clay from the Cooks River.

There are portions of the district which are admirably adapted for manufacturing purposes, and no doubt in course of time full advantage will be taken of these opportunities.

[11] By the end of the Second World War, the NSW Government had come to the conclusion that its ideas of infrastructure expansion could not be realised by the present system of the mostly-poor inner-city municipal councils and the Minister for Local Government, Joseph Cahill, passed a bill in 1948 that abolished a significant number of those councils.