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There are 1025 suburbs in Greater Melbourne, some without postcodes, shared or names of railways stations.
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--> Laverton
Laverton, a residential and industrial suburb east of Hoppers Crossing and Werribee, is 18 km. west-south-west of Melbourne. It was named after the Laverton pastoral run, settled by Alfred Langhorne...
--> Glen Huntly
Glen Huntly is a residential suburb 11 km. south-east of Melbourne served by a railway line (1881) and a tram (1889). It is south of Caulfield. On 7 April, 1840, the ship Glen Huntly arrived in...
--> Bentleigh
Bentleigh (3204) including Bentleigh East (3165) is a residential suburb 12 km. south-east of Melbourne, immediately to the north of Moorabbin. It is relatively compact, lying between Centre and...
--> Dallas
Dallas, a residential suburb in the northern part of Broadmeadows, is 17 km. north of Melbourne it was named after the Victorian Governor, Sir Dallas Brooks, who held office form 1949 to...
--> Marshall
Marshall, previously called Marshalltown, is an industrial and residential suburb 5 km. south of Geelong. Its neighbouring area is Breakwater, and was included in that area before gaining a separate...
--> Meadow Heights
Meadow Heights is a residential area 18, km. north of Melbourne and 2 km. north of the Broadmeadows town centre. The east-west flight path for the Melbourne International Airport separates it from...
--> Holmesglen
Holmesglen is situated at the conjunction of Ashburton and Chadstone, and its boundaries are blurred. However, the railway station is 14 km. south-east of Melbourne, where the line crosses Warrigal...
--> Glenroy
Glenroy is a residential area 13 km. north of Melbourne, bounded on the west by the Moonee Ponds Creek, on the south by Pascoe Vale, on the east by Fawkner and on the north by Broadmeadows. It...
--> Gladstone Park
Gladstone Park is the eastern part of Tullamarine, 15 km. north of Melbourne. It has the Moonee Ponds Creek to its north and east. The name comes from a grazing property owned by Thomas Gladstone...
--> Colbinabbin
Colbinabbin is a rural district with a small township in northern Victoria between Rushworth and Elmore. Colbinabbin was one of four pastoral runs taken up by Edward Curr in 1844, and was watered...
--> Briar Hill
Briar Hill, 18 km. north-east of Melbourne, is a residential and light industrial area bout a kilometre east of Greensborough. Its name possibly derives from the type of tangled vegetation which...
--> Cranbourne
Approximately forty six kilometres south-east of Melbourne lies the rapidly growing town of Cranbourne. The earliest settlers were the Ruffy brothers who squatted on Mayune run in 1836. They...
--> Coburg
Coburg, a residential suburb 8 km. north of Melbourne, was also a municipality from 1874 to 1994. The municipality was bordered on the south by Brunswick city and on the west and east by the Moonee...
--> Docklands
Docklands is a redevelopment site of 220 ha. of land and water (1997) at the western end of Melbourne's central business district. It is administered by the Docklands Authority under an Act of...
--> Highton
Highton is a residential suburb on the south-west side of the Barwon river, 4 km. from Geelong. It was named after John Highett, Highett-town having been shortened to Highton. Highett arrived in the...
--> Laburnum
Laburnum is a residential locality 16 km, east of Melbourne between Box Hill and Blackburn. It is named after a shrub with yellow flowers, also called "golden chain". Laburnum's early settlement...
--> Lower Plenty
Lower Plenty, at the junction of the Plenty and Yarra Rivers, has a small residential area and substantial open space comprising a golf club and parkland. It is 16 km north-east of...
--> Warrandyte
Warrandyte and the surrounding suburbs of Wonga Park and Park Orchards are located approximately 35 kilometres North East of the city of Melbourne. The original township is on the south side of...
--> Piper Street Kyneton
Kyneton is a thriving country town with art galleries, shops for craft, books, nurseries, gifts, food, wine and clothing providing an exciting experience to visit. In the early 1850s Kyneton...
--> Cockatoo
In the steep foothills of the Dandenong Ranges, 48 kilometres east of central Melbourne, lies the township of Cockatoo. In the 1850s, prospectors searching for gold bestowed the name Cockatoo Creek,...
--> Donnybrook
Donnybrook is a rural area with a small residential community on the Merri Creek, 33 km. north of Melbourne. There have been two places called Donnybrook. The present one is the second, created when...
--> Knoxfield
Knoxfield is a residential and commercial/industrial suburb 27 km. east-south-east of Melbourne, lying between Scoresby and Ferntree Gully. It was named shortly after the Knox shire was formed in...
--> Greensborough
Greensborough is a residential suburb 17 km. north-east of Melbourne, situated on the Plenty River. The land around Greensborough is hilly, and during Port Phillip's pastoral expansion it was not...
--> Mangalore
Mangalore is a rural village and district 12 km. north of Seymour in central northern Victoria. It is the junction where the northern railway line branches to Shepparton and Wodonga. In 1838,...
--> Highett
Highett is a mainly residential suburb 16 km. south-east of Melbourne between Moorabbin and Cheltenham. The name comes from Highetts road, the name of the railway station which was built when the...
--> Lysterfield
Lysterfield remains a mostly rural area 35 km. south-east of Melbourne, with Ferntree Gully to its north, Narre Warren to its south and Rowville on its west. It consists of a fertile valley along the...
--> Croydon North
Croydon North is a residential area 27 km. east of Melbourne. It contains the smaller areas of Warranwood and Croydon Hills, which underwent residential subdivision during the 1980s and early 1990s....
--> Corner Center Dandenong Road and Boundary Road, Dingley Village
Dingley Village (post code 3172) is a suburb 23 km south-east of Melbourne located between Springvale South and Moorabbin Airport. It was Dingley before being renamed Dingley Village in the 1991....
--> Beaconsfield Upper
Beaconsfield Upper is 45 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district in the Shire of Cardinia. Gold prospectors were the first residents of the forested foothills now known as Upper...
--> Lilydale
The Lilydale township is 35 km. east of Melbourne, and is situated centrally in the former Lillydale shire which was amalgamated with three others to form the Yarra Ranges shire in 1994. The town is...
--> Melton
Melton is a residential township 35 km. west-north-west of Melbourne on the Western Highway to Ballarat. It was characterised as a satellite town during the 1970s, and to some extent was still that...
--> Launching Place
Launching Place, a rural township with a substantial residential area, is on the route between Lilydale and Warburton. It is situated on the Yarra River, near where the river is entered by the Little...
--> Manifold Heights
Manifold Heights is a suburb between Geelong West and Herne Heights, about 2 km. west-north-west of Geelong. Its western boundary is Shannon Avenue, formerly the West Melbourne Road (i.e. the...
--> Hawksburn
Hawksburn, a residential area 5 km. south-east of Melbourne, is situated between South Yarra and Prahran. It was named after Hawksburn House (situated near where the railway station was later built),...
--> Mount Waverley
Mount Waverley is a residential area 15 km. south-east of Melbourne. Its area extends from the border between the former Oakleigh and Waverley cities eastwards to Glen Waverley. In 1853 a...
--> Burwood
Burwood (3125) and Burwood East (3151) extend eastwards from Melbourne, beginning at a distance of about 11 km. from Melbourne's centre and ending 17 km. from the centre, roughly from Warrigal Road...
--> Clarinda
Clarinda is a residential locality in Clayton South, 17 km. south-east of Melbourne. As a locality Clarinda predates Clayton South, a Presbyterian church being opened there in 1886. At that time the...
--> Jolimont
Jolimont is a residential precinct in East Melbourne, 1.5 km. from the G.P.O., Melbourne. In 1839 Charles Joseph La Trobe arrived in Melbourne as the Superintendent of Port Phillip. He brought a...
--> Ringwood
Ringwood is a residential suburb 23 km. east of Melbourne, situated on the Maroondah Highway. The precursor of the Maroondah Highway was the track to the Gippsland and Upper Goulburn gold fields,...
--> Clayton
Clayton is a residential and industrial suburb 18 km. south-east of Melbourne on the Oakleigh to Dandenong railway line. The area was first occupied for farming purposes in the 1850s. The first...
--> McKinnon
McKinnon is a residential suburb 13 km. south-east of Melbourne between Ormond and Bentleigh. It was named in 1897 by the shortening of the name of the McKinnon's Road railway station (1884). The...
--> Heidelberg West
Heidelberg West is a residential area 11 km. north-east of Melbourne, north of Banksia Street and on the east side of the Darebin Creek. It is relatively remote from the railway line and was...
--> Malvern East
Malvern East is a residential area 10 km. south-east of Melbourne, about half the area of the former Malvern city. Its western boundary is Tooronga Road. Its postal district had Belgrave Road as its...
--> Ringwood East
Ringwood East is a residential suburb 25 km., east of Melbourne. Its name derives from that of Ringwood. Early settlement points in Ringwood East were the Burnt Bridge Hotel on the Maroondah...
--> Nunawading
Nunawading is a residential suburb 18 km. east of Melbourne between Box Hill and Ringwood. Nunawading was first the name of a parish bounded on the north by the Koonung Creek, on the east by the...
--> Fitzroy North
Fitzroy North, 4 km. north-east of Melbourne, is separated from Fitzroy (South) by Alexandra Parade. Its other boundaries adjoin Carlton North, Brunswick, Northcote and Clifton Hill. It was laid...
--> Glenferrie
Glenferrie is a residential area 7 km. east of Melbourne, containing the main civic and retail buildings of the Hawthorn area. Glenferrie was at first called Upper Hawthorn. The main north-south...
--> Kalorama
Kalorama, a residential area in the Mt. Dandenong Ranges, is 36 km. east of Melbourne. Situated on the Mt. Dandenong Tourist Road, it is immediately north of the Olinda State Forest. The name,...
--> Beaconsfield
Beaconsfield, forty six kilometres east of central Melbourne on Cardinia Creek, was originally known as Little Berwick. It is immediately to the east of Berwick. A small settlement grew up in the...
--> Watsonia
Watsonia, a residential suburb south-west of Greensborough, is 15 km. north-east of Melbourne. Whilst Greensborough has the sub-regional shopping centre, Watsonia has several State schools which...
--> Avonsleigh
Avonsleigh, first known as East Emerald, is 46 km. east-south-east of Melbourne. Its name arose from Avonsleigh guest house, close to the Wright stopping place on the Belgrave to Gembrook railway...
--> Maroondah
Maroondah is a city formed on 15 December, 1994, by the amalgamation of the former cities of Croydon and Ringwood and the district of Kilsyth South. Its western boundary adjoins Mitcham and its...
--> Hawthorn
Hawthorn is a "middle-ring"residential suburb 6 km. east of Melbourne. Its surface rises immediately east of the Yarra River valley, and it has the Gardiners Creek on its south. The municipality...
--> Flemington
Flemington is an inner residential suburb 4 km. north-west of Melbourne, situated between North Melbourne and Ascot Vale. Its eastern boundary is the Moonee Ponds Creek, with alluvial flats that were...
--> Wantirna
Wantirna is a residential locality 23 km. east of Melbourne, a few kilometres west of Bayswater. It is neither on a railway line nor on a radiating main road from Melbourne, and consequently...
--> Harrisfield
Harrisfield, in the western part of Noble Park and adjoining the south side of the Princes Highway, is 24 km. south-east of Melbourne. It was named in 1926 after Edgar Harris, who had farmed in the...
--> Keysborough
Keysborough is 27 km. south-east of Melbourne, south of Noble Park. It is a mixture of residential and agricultural, the latter being in south Keysborough where farmlands were formed by the draining...
--> Mansfield
Mansfield, a rural township and former shire, is 130 km. north-east of Melbourne. It is at the end of the Maroondah Highway, between Lake Eildon and Mount Buller. During the 1840s settlers...
--> Camberwell
Camberwell is a residential suburb 9 km east of Melbourne, between Hawthorn and Burwood. Until the 1850s the area was occupied for grazing, being described as "light sandy country, timbered with...
--> Dargo
Dargo is a quiet country township situated on the Dargo River, one hundred kilometres north of Sale in the Great Dividing Ranges. Dargo is thought to be either an Aboriginal word possibly meaning...
--> North Melbourne
North Melbourne is a residential, commercial and industrial suburb immediately north-west of central Melbourne. It is often associated with West Melbourne (in which is situated the North Melbourne...
--> Abbotsford
Abbotsford, a residential and industrial suburb, is in the eat of Collingwood, between Hoddle Street and the Yarra River. It was named after a property owned by John Orr in Kew, the bordering suburb...
--> Waurn Ponds
Waurn Ponds is a rural/residential and University area 9 km. south-west of Geelong. It is named after the Waurn Chain of Ponds, a watercourse which flows from the region of Mt. Moriac to the Barwon...
--> Tullamarine
Tullamarine's residential area is contained in a circular loop of the Moonee Ponds Creek, and its western boundary is the Melbourne Airport, originally called the Tullamarine Airport. Tullamarine...
--> Merri-bek
The Governor in Council has officially approved the new name* for Moreland City Council, with the change to Merri-bek published in the Victorian Government Gazette on 15 Sep 2022. Merri-bek...
--> Brunswick
Brunswick is an inner-urban suburb 6 km. north of Melbourne. It is bounded on the west and the east by the Moonee Ponds and Merri Creeks respectively. On its south it adjoins Melbourne city and Yarra...
--> East Melbourne
East Melbourne is a residential and commercial suburb which retains a number of religious and institutional buildings on land grants made during the nineteenth century. It borders central Melbourne's...
--> Hartwell
Hartwell, near Camberwell is l0 km, east-south-east of Melbourne, It was named after Hartwell House (1853), built in the locality by James Irwin, and appeared as a name first in the District Roads...
--> Balaclava
Balaclava, part of St. Kilda East, is 7 km. south-east of Melbourne. It was named after the battlefield in the Crimean War (1853-6), and has street names such as Nightingale, Inkerman, Raglan and...
--> Coldstream
Coldstream is a mainly rural area, but with a growing residential component, 36 km. east of Melbourne, extending northwards from Lilydale to the Yarra River. The part of Coldstream nearest the...
--> Coode Island
Coode Island, an almost uninhabited industrial area, is 4 km. west of Melbourne. It was formed in 1886 when canal was cut through the Sandridge swamp to provide a straightened stream for the...
--> Brighton
Brighton is a residential bayside suburb 11 km. south-east of Melbourne. In 1840 the British Government's Land and Emigration Commission approved procedures for the sale of "Special Survey"land...
--> Hughesdale
Hughesdale is a residential suburb 14 km. south-east of Melbourne, positioned on the border (Poath Road) between the former Caulfield and Oakleigh cities and now Glen Eira and Monash cities....
--> Malvern
Malvern, a residential suburb8 km. south-east of Melbourne, lies between Gardiners Creek on its northand Dandenong Road on its south. It extends eastwards from Kooyong Road,Toorak, to Warrigal Road....
--> Kingsbury
Kingsbury is a residential locality 12 km. north-north-east of Melbourne, between Reservoir and Bundoora. It was named after Private Bruce Steel Kingsbury, from Preston, who was posthumously awarded...
--> Forest Hill
Forest Hill is a residential suburb 17 km. east of Melbourne immediately south of Blackburn and Nunawading. The area was originally known as Scotchman's Hill and Mt. Pleasant in the 1860s. An...
--> Ivanhoe
Ivanhoe is a residential suburb 9 km. north-east of Melbourne, south of Heidelberg. The land occupied by Ivanhoe was one of several portions adjoining the Warringal (later Heidelberg) village...
--> Kinglake
Kinglake, comprising forest, farmland and a national park is 46 km north-east of Melbourne in the Kinglake Ranges, part of the Great Dividing Range. The area is extensive, and includes Kinglake West,...
--> Upfield
Upfield is a residential and industrial locality 17 km. north of Melbourne, situated in Campbellfield. The name is descriptive of the area's open country. In 1956 the Ford motor car factory was...
--> Whorouly
Whorouly is a rural township in north-east Victoria. It is on the Ovens River, between Wangaratta and Myrtleford, and is about 230 km. from Melbourne. Whorouly is situated in a basin with forested...
--> Studfield
Studfield is a residential locality in Wantirna, immediately north of the Knox City shopping centre, Burwood Highway. It is 25 km. east-south-east of Melbourne, and adjoins Stud Road - hence the...
--> Camperdown
Camperdown is a rural township on the Western District volcanic plains of Victoria. It is 40 km. west of Colac and 165 km west-south-west of Melbourne. Camperdown is famed for its early settlers,...
--> Strathbogie
Strathbogie is a rural village and locality 18 km. south-east of Euroa. It is situated at the northern foot of the Strathbogie Ranges which are about 125 km. north-east of Melbourne. Strathbogie is...
--> Point Lonsdale
Point Lonsdale, a seaside resort and residential area, is near the end of the Bellarine Peninsula. Its neighbouring township is Queenscliff, and it is 27 km. south-east of Geelong. Point Lonsdale...
--> Roxburgh Park
Roxburgh Park is an area of 650 ha. about 20 km. north of Melbourne, between Craigieburn and Greenvale. It was in the Broadmeadows city council, now Hume city, and generally in the Merri growth...
--> Millgrove
Millgrove, a rural township west of Warburton, is 63 km. east of Melbourne. Although the township has had several long-standing timber mills, which could have inspired its name, it is more likely to...
--> Ocean Grove
Ocean Grove, a coastal township and beach resort on the southern side of the Bellarine Peninsula, looks out on to Bass Strait. It is 19 km. south-east of Geelong, and it situated on the east side of...
--> Parkdale
Parkdale is a residential suburb 23 km. south-east of Melbourne, occupying parts of the Mordialloc and Mentone postcode areas. It was named after W. Parker, an early landowner in the area, and was...
--> Notting Hill
Notting Hill is a residential and commercial area 18 km. south-east of Melbourne, between Mount Waverley and Clayton North. Its traditional centre is on Ferntree Gully Road. The area is more a...
--> Torquay
Torquay is a township facing Bass Strait, 21 km. south of Geelong (i.e. across the Bellarine Peninsula from Geelong). It is bordered on the west by Spring Creek and its coastal features include Point...
--> Blackburn
Blackburn is a residential suburb 17 km. east of Melbourne, between Box Hill and Nunawading. About 400 metres south of the township is the Blackburn Creek, thought to have been named after an early...
--> Woodstock
Woodstock is a rural locality 30 km. north of Melbourne on the road from Epping. The developing towns of Cragieburn and Whittlesea lie west and east respectively of the rural corridor occupied by...
--> Selby
Selby is a semi-rural township 37 km. east-south-east of Melbourne. It is 2 km. east of Belgrave, and was the first station on the narrow-gauge railway to Gembrook (now the "Puffing Billy"scenic...
--> Berwick
Berwick, once a small agricultural town, now an outer suburb, is located 43 kilometres south-east of Melbourne. The area was part of Cardinia Creek run and was named by an early leaseholder, Robert...
--> Glen Iris
Glen Iris is a residential suburb 10 kin. south-east of Melbourne, To its north is Camberwell and to its east is Malvern, and Glen Iris was in each of those two former municipalities. Its situation...
--> Kooyong
Kooyong is a residential locality 6 km. south-east of Melbourne on the south side of the Gardiners Creek valley. Gardiners Creek was originally named Kooyong Koot Creek by the government surveyor,...
--> Vermont South
Vermont South is 20 km. east of Melbourne. It is a residential area either side of the Burwood Highway, with Burwood East on its western border and the Dandenong Creek/Wantirna as its eastern...
--> Tatura
Tatura is a rural township in northern Victoria, 17 km. east-south-east of Shepparton in the western Goulburn Valley. The name is thought to be derived from an Aboriginal word meaning a lagoon with...
--> Woods Point
Woods Point is a tourist and former gold-mining township in the Great Dividing Range, 120 km. east-north-east of Melbourne, and a considerably longer distance by road. It is situated at the extreme...
--> The Patch
The Patch is a mainly rural locality, 40 km. east-south-east of Melbourne, next to the east side of the Sherbrooke Forest. In the 1860s a timber-getter felled a stand of black-butts for palings,...
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