 The Shire of Kalamunda commenced community consultation on whether to become a city in 2015, and was renamed the City of Kalamunda on 1 July 2017.The city is divided into four wards.As of 2020, 259 places are heritage-listed in the City of Kalamunda, of which 17 are on the State Register of Heritage Places, among them Perth Observatory and the Statham's Quarry.