The council is responsible for housing and community, roads and transportation, urban planning and development, amenity and culture, and environment.

The county administration is headed by a chief executive, Joe MacGrath.

[7] Tipperary County Council has three representatives on the Southern Regional Assembly who are part of the Mid-West Strategic Planning Area Committee.

[8][9] Members of Tipperary County Council are elected for a five-year term of office on the electoral system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV) from multi-member local electoral areas (LEAs).

County Tipperary is divided into LEAs, defined by electoral divisions, and into borough and municipal districts for the purposes of local exercising of the powers of the local authority.