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There are 1025 suburbs in Greater Melbourne, some without postcodes, shared or names of railways stations.
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--> Mywee-Bearii Road Strathmerton
Strathmerton is a rural township district in northern Victoria, 20 km. north of Numurkah and extending to the Murray River. It is the junction of railway lines which branch to Cobram and Tocumwal,...
--> Westmeadows
Westmeadows contains the original Broadmeadows village on the Moonee Ponds Creek, but is now west of the present Broadmeadows. It is north of Tullamarine/Gladstone Park, and is 17 km. north of...
--> Mount Dandenong
Mount Dandenong is a tourist and residential area in the Dandenong Ranges, 35 km. east of Melbourne. On its western side is Mount Dandenong (633 m.), the highest peak in the ranges, offering a clear...
--> Wheelers Hill
Wheelers Hill, between Glen Waverley and Scoresby, is a residential area 22 km. south-east of Melbourne. Its origin was a farm taken by a John Wheeler near Ferntree Gully Road, extending eastwards to...
--> Toolern Vale
Toolern Vale is an agricultural and pastoral locality 40 km. north-west of Melbourne and 9 km. north of Melton. It is on the Toolern Creek, which flows southwards through Melton before joining the...
--> Yallambie
Yallambie consists of a large Army Barracks and residential areas 16 km. north-east of Melbourne. It is part of the Macleod post code area. The name is derived form an Aboriginal word "nglambi",...
--> Whitfield
Whitfield, an agricultural township in the King River valley in north-east Victoria, is 47 km. south of Wangaratta and 170 km. from Melbourne. The township is immediately west of the flood-prone King...
--> Wesburn
Wesburn, a rural township between Yarra Junction and Warburton, is 62 km. east of Melbourne. In 1894, after passing the Village Settlement Act two years before, the State Government subdivided 325...
--> Scoresby
Scoresby is a suburb 25 km. south-east of Melbourne, urbanised on its eastern half and open country on its western half, adjoining the Dandenong Creek. In 1857 Scoresby and the surrounding country...
--> Oakleigh
Oakleigh is a residential suburb with considerable secondary industry 15 km. south-east of Melbourne, immediately beyond Caulfield and Malvern. Until 1853 the area was known as Scotchmans Creek, when...
--> Wallington
Wallington is a rural town on the Bellarine Peninsula, roughly 4 km east-south-east of Geelong. Landholder, Fairfax Fenwick, subdivided part of his property in 1853, and named the subdivision...
--> Portarlington
Portarlington, a coastal township on the north-east side of the Bellarine Peninsula, is 26 km. east of Geelong and 43 km. across Port Phillip Bay from the centre of Melbourne. The origin of the...
--> Springvale
Situated in the south-east of metropolitan Melbourne near Dandenong, Springvale is on the Princes Highway, 23 km. from Melbourne. Until 1994 Springvale was also a municipal city. The name...
--> Black Rock
Black Rock, a bayside suburb between Sandringham and Beaumaris, is 18 km. south-south-east of Melbourne. It was named after Black Rock House, a grand residence built by Charles Hotson Ebden in...
--> Middle Park
Middle Park, between the suburbs of Albert Park and St. Kilda, is 5 km. south of Melbourne. Its southern border is the Port Philip Bay and the northern border is the Albert Park parkland. In 1857...
--> Wyndham Vale
Wyndham Vale, a residential suburb immediately west of Werribee, is 30 km. west-south-west of Melbourne. Its name is derived form the Werribee district's original name, Wyndham shire. Wyndham...
--> Monbulk
Monbulk is township and farming area 40 km. east of Melbourne and eight km. south-east of Mount Dandenong. Its name derives from the Parish of Monbulk which in turn derived from the Monbulk pastoral...
--> Rubicon
Rubicon is the site of hydro-electric power generation stations and of former extensive timber harvesting operations. It is 93 km. north-east of Melbourne and 20 km. south-east of Alexandra. It is on...
--> Emerald
Emerald, a township in the Dandenong Ranges, is 44 km. east-south-east of Melbourne. The name came from Emerald Creek (also known as Ti Tree Creek) which was named after a prospector Jack Emerald who...
--> Moe
Formerly the city of Moe, this Gippsland town was amalgamated together with Morwell and Traralgon in 1995 into the LaTrobe Council. The town is bisected by the Narracon Creek and this area was...
--> Wonga Park
Wonga Park is a rural town and urban locality 29 km. east-north-east of Melbourne, between the southern bank of the Yarra River and Croydon North. The name comes for the Wonga Park grazing property,...
--> Springvale South
Springvale South, between Springvale and Keysborough, was subdivided for housing during the early postwar grid pattern of Springvale and the later pattern found throughout Keysborough which protects...
--> St Kilda East
St. Kilda East extends form Chapel Street, St. Kilda, to Caulfield, and is 6 km. south-east of Melbourne. Along its northern edge is the Dandenong Road tram (1928) and another east-west tram (1913)...
--> Woori Yallock
Woori Yallock is a rural township 50 km. east of Melbourne on the road between Lilydale and Warburton. The township is two kilometres from the Woori Yallock Creek which rises from the south in the...
--> Werribee South
Werribee South is a rural area on alluvial land at the southern end of the Werribee River where it enters Port Phillip Bay. It is situated on the east side of the river and extends further eastwards...
--> Toorak
Toorak is a residential area 5 km. south-east of Melbourne. Its social boundaries have been precisely fixed by its postal district boundaries (SE2 and 3142), which are Williams Road, Malvern Road,...
--> Windsor
Windsor, a residential suburb south of Prahran, is 5 km. south-south-east of Melbourne. It is bounded by High Street, Punt Road, Wellington Street/Dandenong Road and (notionally) Williams Road on its...
--> Panton Hill
Panton Hill is a mainly rural locality 32 km. north-east of Central Melbourne. It was named after Joseph Anderson Panton, Commissioner for the Anderson's Creek and other goldfields and later...
--> St Leonards
St. Leonards is a coastal township on the end of the Bellarine Peninsula facing eastwards on to Port Phillip Bay. It is 46 km. south-south-west across the bay from Melbourne and 30 km. east of...
--> Undera
Undera is a rural village and locality in northern Victoria, in the Goulburn Valley irrigation area. It is 20 km. north-west of Shepparton. In 1874, when the area came under farm-selection...
--> Moriac
Moriac is a rural township 20 km. south-west of Geelong, on the railway line to Colac. Mt. Moriac, the older of the two places, is on the Princes Highway and is about 2 km. north of Moriac. The...
--> Wahgunyah
Wahgunyah, on the south-east side of the Murray River, is 235 km. north-east of Melbourne. The nearest medium-size town to it is Rutherglen, about 8 km. to the south-east. The name came from the...
--> Mitcham
Mitcham is a residential suburb 20 km east of Melbourne between Nunawading and Ringwood, bisected east-west by the Maroondah highway and the railway line from Box Hill to Ringwood. It was named after...
--> Breamlea
Breamlea, on the estuary of Thompsons Creek which enters Bass Strait west of Barwon Heads, is about 28 km. south of Geelong. Thompsons Creek was also known as Bream Creek, and attracted campers...
--> Nathalia
Nathalia is a rural township on the Broken Creek, about 30 km. east of where the creek joins the Murray River in northern Victoria. It is 40 km. north-west of Shepparton. The origin of the name is...
--> Tecoma
Tecoma is a residential suburb in hilly surrounds 35 km. east-south-east of Melbourne and one km. west of Belgrave. Until 1925 Tecoma did not have a separate identity, being known as part of Upper...
--> Westgarth
Westgarth is a residential suburb where the tram and train services cross the Merri Creek, south of Northcote, 5 km. north-east of Melbourne. Land sales occurred in Northcote in 1840, but the land...
--> Ferntree Gully
Ferntree Gully, originally "Fern Tree Gully"because of the scenic gully now partly in the National Park of the same name, is mostly a large suburban area 32 km. east-south-east of Melbourne. The...
--> South Melbourne
South Melbourne originated in 1855 and was one of Melbourne's first shopping strips. Originally known as Emerald Hill, because the hill on which the town hall now stands was a green island surrounded...
--> Mordialloc
Mordialloc, a bayside residential suburb, is 25 km. south-east of Melbourne. The name's antecedents are a squatting run "Moodi Yallo"(1837), a census taken in 1841 at "Moode Yallock"and Georgiana...
--> Silvan
Silvan is a rural township 42 km. east of Melbourne on the eastern side of the Dandenong Ranges. The area was originally South Wandin Yallock (which is briefly discussed under Wandin). In 1876 a...
--> Yarrambat
Yarrambat is a rural district 24 km. north-north-east of Melbourne, east of Morang South and the Plenty river. To its east is Hurstbridge. The area was first settled in 1840 and farm selections...
--> Ringwood North
Ringwood North is a residential suburb 24 km., east of Melbourne, mostly in the former Ringwood municipality but also in the former Croydon and Doncaster/Templestowe municipalities. It includes...
--> Sherbrooke
Sherbrooke is a small township adjoining the Sherbrooke Forest in the Dandenong Ranges, about 35 km. east-south-east of Melbourne. The forest was part of a timber reserve, most of which was excised...
--> Moolap
Moolap, 5 km. east-south of Geelong, is a locality which has agricultural and industrial uses and low-density residential development. Its post code area includes Point Henry, Geelong's first place...
--> Morang South
Morang South, 25 km. north of Melbourne, is on the Plenty River and is between Mill Park and Mernda. Its name derives from the Parish of Morang, which was named after an Aboriginal word thought to...
--> Noble Park
Noble Park, 16 km. south-east of Melbourne, is bordered by Springvale on the west and the Dandenong Creek on the east. It is mainly residential and contains Harrisfield and Yarraman. The Oakleigh...
--> Knox
Knox was a shire created on 10 November, 1963, by the severance of the western part of the Fern Tree Gully shire. Knox shire's western boundary was Waverley city, and its centre point was about 25...
--> North Shore
North Shore is an industrial and residential suburb adjoining Corio Bay, extending northwards form Cowies Creek, Geelong North to the Shell Oil Refinery at Corio. In 1892 the North Shore area was...
--> Park Orchards
Park Orchards began as a bush-land subdivision during the 1920s and has retained that quality until the present day. It is 23 km. east-north-east of Melbourne, situated between Ringwood (to its...
--> Thornton
Thornton, a township in an agricultural district, is 93 km. north-east of Melbourne and between Alexandra and Eildon. It is situated on good river-front land where the Goulburn River and the Goulburn...
--> Olinda
Olinda is township, with rural and scenic areas, 37 km. east of Melbourne and at the southern foot of Mount Dandenong. The name Olinda originates from Olinda Creek, a watercourse with its...
--> Pascoe Vale
These residential areas, west of Coburg, are between 7 km. and 11 km. north of Melbourne. They are named after Pascoeville, the property owed by John Pascoe Fawkner and bounded approximately by the...
--> Springhurst
Springhurst is a rural township in north-eastern Victoria, situated on the Hume Freeway at its junction with the road to Wahgunyah. It is also the junction of the railway lines from Melbourne to...
--> Southbank
Southbank, on the south side of the Yarra River opposite Melbourne's central city area, was first defined as an area for redevelopment by the State Government in 1984. Two years later the Government...
--> Winton
Winton is a rural village and locality on the route between Melbourne and Albury. It is between Benalla and Glenrowan, and is situated on Seven Mile Creek which crosses the Hume Highway and enters...
--> Chelsea Heights
Chelsea Heights is a residential suburb 30 km. south-east of Melbourne, inland from and adjoining the bayside suburb of Chelsea. The name Chelsea was proposed by a local resident for the new railway...
--> Chadstone
Chadstone, a residential suburb 13 km. south-east of Melbourne, is best known for having metropolitan Melbourne's largest super-regional shopping centre. (Highpoint, Maribyrnong, is the other...
--> St Kilda
St. Kilda is a residential suburb on Port Phillip Bay, 6 km. south-east of Melbourne. During 1841-42 a cargo yacht "Lady of St. Kilda"was anchored in the bay, having been placed there for sale or...
--> Warburton
Warburton is a town on the Yarra River 60 km. east of Melbourne, surrounded by foothills of the Great Dividing Range. In late 1859 gold was discovered in the Warburton area, at Britannia Creek...
--> Coolaroo
Coolaroo is a residential and industrial suburb 18 km. north of Melbourne, west of the Ford motor car factory, Hume Highway, and between Broadmeadows and Somerton. The name is thought to be derived...
--> South Melbourne
South Melbourne, between the south bank of the Yarra River and Port Phillip Bay, originated at the elevated area first known as Emerald Hill, 2 km. south of Melbourne. Emerald Hill, an old...
--> Tallarook
Tallarook is a rural township and district in central northern Victoria, 10 km. south of Seymour. It is on the railway line from Melbourne and on the Hume Freeway, which pass between hilly ranges...
--> Warrenbayne
Warrenbayne is a rural township and locality 18 km. south-west of Benalla. Its name is believed to have been formed form Messrs. Warren and Bayne, early pastoral settlers who occupied a station...
--> Western Gardens
Western Gardens is a residential suburb between Laverton and Hoppers Crossing, 21 km. west-south-west of Melbourne. Its northern boundary is the Princes Freeway and its southern boundary is the Point...
--> Menzies Creek
Menzies Creek is a rural township in the Dandenong Ranges, 42 km. south-east of Melbourne, and 5 km. east of Belgrave. It was the second station from Belgrave on the narrow gauge railway to Gembrook,...
--> Rosanna
Rosanna is a residential suburb 12 km. north-east of Melbourne, about 2 km. beyond Heidelberg. In 1838 the land around the Warringal (Heidelberg) village was divided into nine portions of between...
--> Sandringham
Sandringham, a bayside residential suburb, is 16 km. south-south-east of Melbourne and 4 km. south of Brighton. The area was first known as Gipsy Village, from a fishing community which occupied the...
--> Rowville
Rowville is a recent residential suburb 26 km. south-east of Melbourne. It is centered approximately on the intersection of Wellington and Stud Roads, where an electricity terminal station and the...
--> Port Melbourne
Port Melbourne, a residential and industrial suburb, is 4 km. south-west of Melbourne. It is bounded on its north and west by the Yarra River, on the south by Hobsons Bay and on the east Bay South...
--> Oak Park
Oak Park, a residential suburb 11 km. north of Melbourne, is situated in the southern part of Glenroy. Its western border is the Moonee Ponds Creek. The name is thought to derive from a property once...
--> Patterson Lakes
Patterson Lakes is a residential suburb 32 km. south-east of Melbourne beside the "Patterson River", upstream from where it discharges into Port Phillip Bay at Carrum. The "Patterson River"is a...
--> Seville
Seville is a township in the Yarra Ranges, 44 km. east of Melbourne, and was the third station on the former Lilydale to Warburton railway line. The first settlers in the Seville district came in...
--> Mountain Gate
Mountain Gate is a residential locality immediately west of Ferntree Gully, where Ferntree Gully Road joins Burwood Highway, 28 km. east-south-east of Melbourne. Originally known as Ferntree Gully...
--> Preston
Preston is a residential and industrial suburb 9 km north of Melbourne. It was originally known as Irish Town and a municipality from 1885 to 1994. The area was surveyed by Robert Hoddle and...
--> Ormond
Ormond, a residential suburb south of the Caulfield Racecourse, is 12 km. south-east of Melbourne. It is named after Francis Ormond (1829-89), grazier and philanthropist with a strong interest in...
--> Whittlesea
Whittlesea is a township with surrounding rural area 36 km. north-north-east of Melbourne on the Plenty River. It was also a municipality extending southwards to Preston in metropolitan...
--> Moorabbin
Moorabbin is a residential and industrial suburb 16 km. south-east of Melbourne on the Nepean Highway about 3 km. from the coast of Port Phillip Bay. It was also a municipality between 1871 and...
--> Thomastown
Thomastown is a residential and industrial suburb 15 km. north of Melbourne, with a station on the railway line to Epping. Unlike the land further west which is littered with basalt, Thomastown has...
--> Wandin
Wandin is a rural town 42 km. east of Melbourne and 8 km. beyond Lilydale. There are adjoining agricultural districts of Wandin North and (eastwards) Wandin Yallock. The name is first recorded in...
--> Whittington
Whittington is a residential suburb 4 km. south-east of Geelong. The name appears to have been adopted early in the 1920s, in honour of an early land owner, James Whittington. Originally the...
--> Tungamah
Tungamah is a rural town north-north-east of Melbourne, approximately 29 km. from Yarrawonga and the Murray River. It is situated on slightly undulating land which is surrounded by almost treeless...
--> Broadmeadows
Broadmeadows is a residential and industrial suburb 16 km. north of Melbourne and until 1994 it was a municipality. The lightly wooded landscape between the Merri and Moonee Ponds Creeks attracted...
--> Burnley
Burnley is a residential suburb in the southern and eastern parts of Richmond, 4 km. east-south-east of Melbourne. Bounded on the south and east by the Yarra River, the other boundaries are in...
--> Moonee Valley
Moonee Valley city is a municipality north-west of Melbourne. Its point closest to Melbourne is 3 km. from Melbourne's centre, where it adjoins North Melbourne. The furthest point is 13 km. from the...
--> Campbellfield
Campbellfield, a residential and industrial suburb 17 km. north of Melbourne, is situated east of Broadmeadows. It is on the Hume highway and its eastern boundary is the Merri Creek. Two families...
--> Fitzroy
Fitzroy was Melbourne's first suburb, created when the area between Melbourne and Alexandra Parade (originally named Newtown) was subdivided into vacant lots and offered for sale. Newtown was...
--> Maribyrnong
Maribyrnong is a residential and industrial suburb enclosed on three sides by the Maribyrnong River, 6 km. north-west of Melbourne. The southern side is adjacent to Maidstone. Maribyrnong city and...
--> Viewbank
Viewbank is a residential suburb 15 km. north-east of Melbourne, and east of Rosanna. Its name comes from the property and residence Viewbank, owned by Dr. Robert Martin who came to the Heidelberg...
--> Mentone
Mentone, a sea-side residential suburb on Port Phillip Bay, is 22 km. south-east of Melbourne. Before the formation of the township the area was known as Balcombe, after the name of the occupier of...
--> High Street Northcote
Northcote is a residential and industrial suburb 8 km north-north-east of Melbourne. Until 1994 it was a municipality, bounded on the west by the Merri Creek and on the east by the Darebin Creek....
--> Narbethong
Narbethong, 65 km. north-east of Melbourne, is mid-way between Healesville and Marysville. It is on the former Yarra Track, the route from Melbourne to the Gippsland goldfields in the 1860s. In...
--> Yarraville
The very cool suburb Yarraville is only four kilometres from Melbourne's CBD. It is lined with refurbished 19th Century buildings and quaint neighbourhood cafe's, award-winning restaurants and...
--> Montmorency
Montmorency is a residential locality 18 km north-east of Melbourne between Greensborough and Eltham. It was named after a farm, the Montmorency estate, which was named after the French town where...
--> Indented Head
Indented Head is a coastal township on the end of Bellarine Peninsula facing eastwards on to Port Phillip Bay. It is between Portarlington and St. Leonards, and is 43 km. south-south-west across the...
--> Werribee
Werribee, about 27 km south-west of Melbourne, is midway on the Princes Highway to Geelong. It is situated on the Werribee River, which has its headwaters north of Ballan. Early pastoral...
--> Plenty
Plenty, a rural district north of Greensborough, is 20 km. north-east of Melbourne. The name comes from the Plenty River, which was named by Joseph Tice Gellibrand, member of the Port Phillip...
--> Rockbank
Rockbank is a small township with rural surrounds 27 km., west-north-west of Melbourne, on the Western Freeway between Melton and Deer Park. An early settler of the Rockbank district was William...
--> Melbourne
This is a list of Municipalities and their suburbs and townships in the greater metropolitan area of Melbourne, in the State of Victoria. Inner suburbs are subdivisions within the denser urban...
--> Sunbury
Sunbury is a residential "satellite"township 35 km. north-west of Melbourne, east of the Calder Highway. It is situated on Jacksons Creek, which enters the Maribyrnong River at Sydenham. Two minor...
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