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There are 1025 suburbs in Greater Melbourne, some without postcodes, shared or names of railways stations.
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--> Bend of Islands
Bend of Islands is a rural locality, 30 km north-east of Melbourne in the Shire of Nillumbik. It was gazetted in 2000 after a petition from local residents, having previously been part of...
--> Docklands
The 200-hectare Melbourne Docklands site has distinct precincts that are being developed progressively over time in an ever changing landscape. Melbourne Docklands is right on the city's doorstep...
--> South Wharf Drive Docklands
Yarra's Edge is a thriving waterfront precinct on the south side of the Yarra River between South Wharf precinct and the West Gate Bridge. Yarra's Edge includes: Marina Precinct, Park Precinct,...
--> Port Melbourne
Established in 1990, the Port Melbourne Business Association (PMBA) is one of Melbourne's oldest, organised trading associations. Established to lobby council on the needs of local businesses,...
--> 173 - 199 Elizabeth Street, Coburg North
Melbourne's newest suburb, Coburg Hill will have around 400 new homes built on the former Kodak site in Coburg in Melbourne's north. Finally, one of Melbourne's oldest Antique Dealers, Coburg...
--> Vermont
Vermont is a residential suburb 21 km. east of Melbourne, south of Mitcham and the Maroondah Highway and railway line Ringwood. The name seems to have been bestowed either by derivation from Limerick...
--> Eden Park
Eden Park, 38 km. north of Melbourne, is 4 km. west of Whittlesea. The area was surveyed and sold between 1840 and 1854, when Ewen Robertson acquired about 400 ha. and built a twelve-roomed...
--> South Yarra
South Yarra is a residential suburb extending from St. Kilda Road to Williams Road, Toorak, bordered on the north by the Domain, the Botanic Gardens and the Yarra River, and on the south by...
--> Elwood
Elwood, a bayside suburb, is south of St. Kilda and 8 km. south of Melbourne. Its name is surmised to have come from the Quaker historian and poet, Thomas Elwood, a friend of the poet Milton. Lieut....
--> Collingwood
Collingwood, an industrial and residential suburb, is 3 km. north-east of Melbourne. Its western boundary is Smith Street, Fitzroy, and its southern boundary is Victoria Parade. On its east are...
--> Heidelberg
Land at Heidelberg, 14 km north-east of Melbourne, was sold by Crown auction in 1838, making it one of the earliest rural allotments. (Central Melbourne's first land sale was on 1 June, 1837). By...
--> Dandenong
Dandenong is situated 31 kilometres south-east of the city of Melbourne. The name is thought to be a corruption of an Aboriginal word meaning lofty mountains, and referred to the ranges which...
--> Gardenvale
Gardenvale, a residential suburb between Elsternwick and North Brighton, is 10 km south-east of Melbourne. It originated with the Garden Vale estate, a subdivision on Lempriere's Paddock (1908) in...
--> Eaglehawk
Eaglehawk was a compact borough from 1862 until 7 April 1994, when it was united with several municipalities to form the City of Greater Bendigo. By then the borough had become physically joined with...
--> Cheltenham
Cheltenham is a residential suburb 18 km. south-east of Melbourne adjoining the bayside suburbs of Beaumaris and Mentone. Its name came from the Cheltenham Inn, opened by Charles Whorral from...
--> Connewarre
Connewarre is a rural locality, 3 km. south-west of Lake Connewarre on the Bellarine Peninsula, and 12 km. south of Geelong. Lake Connewarre and its associated marshes are on the Barwon River, and...
--> Croxton
Croxton is a residential area in Northcote and Thornbury 7 km. north-north-east of Melbourne. It is best known for the Croxton Park Hotel in High Street, which was established in 1850-1 as the Old...
--> Bangholme
Bangholme is situated on the former Carrum Swamp between Keysborough and Chelsea Heights, roughly 30km south-east of Melbourne. The name Bangholme comes from a waterhole on the Eumemmerring Creek...
--> Dinner Plain
The ski village of Dinner Plain is situated in the Great Dividing Range, 12 kilometres south-east of Mount Hotham and 42 kilometres north-west of Omeo. The village was constructed in the late 1980s...
--> Eltham
Eltham, an increasingly residential township, is 20 km north-east of Melbourne. It was surveyed as a village in 1840, near the junction of the Diamond Creek and the Yarra River, coinciding...
--> Gembrook
Gembrook is 54 km. east-south-east of Melbourne and 18 km. east of Belgrave. It was the terminus of a narrow gauge railway from Belgrave, now the "Puffing Billy"scenic railway. Gembrook was first...
--> Research
Research is a mixed urban and rural locality 24 km. north-east of Melbourne, immediately east of Eltham.. In 1855-6 gold was found in a gully in the Research district, then known as Swipers Gully....
--> Heathmont
Heathmont is a residential suburb 24 km. east of Melbourne and 2 km. south of Ringwood. The name appears to have come from the rising land in the locality originally having heath or low shrub like...
--> Kew
Kew is a residential suburb 6 km. east of Melbourne, bordered on its west and north by the Yarra River, on its south by Hawthorn and on its east by Balwyn. In 1840 John Hodgson (1799-1860) took a...
--> Diamond Creek
The Diamond Creek is a tributary of the Yarra River joining it at Eltham. The Creek's headwaters are in the Kinglake ranges, just beyond St. Andrews. Its name probably came from crystalline minerals...
--> Doncaster
Doncaster, formerly an orchard area, is now residential and is 1.5 km east-north-east of Melbourne. Settlement a little to the west of Doncaster began with Unwin's Special Survey in Bulleen in...
--> Auburn
Auburn is a residential area 8 km. east of Melbourne, situated in the Hawthorn area. It has a railway station with an adjacent shopping centre, near what was the main outgoing thoroughfare from...
--> Bayswater
Bayswater is a residential and industrial suburb 28 km. east of Melbourne. The area was originally part of Scoresby North and settlement began in the 1860s. Many settlers were German. A school was...
--> Blackburn North
Blackburn North is a residential area 17 km, east of Melbourne extending from Blackburn to the Koonung Creek. The rural background to Blackburn North was much like that of Blackburn's. Its...
--> Doveton
Doveton, a suburb of Dandenong, is 32 kilometres south-east of central Melbourne. It is immediately east of Dandenong and north of the Princes Highway. The area was originally part of the Eumemmering...
--> Ferny Creek
Ferny Creek is a township in the Dandenong Ranges between the former Ferntree Gully National Park and the Sherbrooke Forest (now amalgamated in the Dandenong Ranges national Park), and is 33 km....
--> Beaumaris
Beaumaris, a bayside residential suburb, is 20 km. south-east of Melbourne. In 1845 James Moysey leased grazing land in the area and shortly afterwards purchased 32 hectares. He named his property...
--> Murchison
Murchison is a small rural village on the Goulburn River just west of the Goulburn Valley Highway. The towns history is coloured with the dispossession on the local aboriginal people by Europeans;...
--> Fawkner
Fawkner is a residential area 12 km. north of Melbourne with the Hume Highway on its west and the Merri Creek on its east. To is south is Coburg. The area was first known as Box Forest, after a...
--> Rainbow
Rainbow is a town situated where the Wimmera merges with the Mallee in north-western Victoria. It is 340 km. from Melbourne. The nearest large towns are Dimboola and Nhill to the south. About 12...
--> Heatherdale
Heatherdale is a small residential locality, 22 km. east of Melbourne, between Mitcham and Ringwood. It is situated on a municipal boundary between Whitehorse and Maroondah cities (formerly the...
--> Kensington
Kensington is a residential and decreasingly industrial suburb 3 km. north-west of Melbourne. It is commonly associated with Flemington, once being in the Flemington and Kensington borough...
--> Epping
Epping is a suburb 18 km. north of Melbourne, on the Darebin Creek. It is the terminus of a metropolitan railway line. An unnamed village reserve was surveyed in 1839 where Epping later...
--> Braeside
Braeside is a predominantly industrial suburb with a metropolitan park, 26 km. south-east of Melbourne and immediately east of Mordialloc. The name came from a farm property, Braeside, owned by...
--> Box Hill
Box Hill, a residential area 14 km. east of Melbourne, is between Camberwell and Blackburn. About one-third of the western part of Box Hill was in Henry Elgar's Special Survey of 8 square miles...
--> Prahran
Prahran, an inner suburb and a former municipality, is about 5 km. south-east of Melbourne, and was originally surveyed for farm allotments. Land sales occurred in 1840 and later in 1849-50. Although...
--> Balwyn North
Balwyn North, larger in area than Balwyn and Deepdene together, is predominantly postwar in its residential growth. In 1941 Balwyn North was described as the next housing-site destination after the...
--> Bulla
Bulla is a township with rural surrounds, immediately north-west of the Melbourne Airport, Tullamarine, and 25 km. north-west of Melbourne. The township is on Deep Creek, a tributary of the...
--> Altona
Altona has a long history as one of the first suburbs of Melbourne. Prior to arrival of Europeans, the Altona area was home to Kurung-Jang-Balluk Aboriginal people, of the Woiwurrung clan. It is...
--> Doncaster East
Doncaster East occupies a larger area than Doncaster, and together they stretch six kilometres from Bulleen to Donvale. Doncaster East is shaped like a reverse L, with the north-south part wrapping...
--> Surrey Hills
Surrey Hills is a residential suburb 12 km. east of Melbourne, between Camberwell and Box Hill. Surrey Hills was in each of those former municipalities and remains divided between the amalgamated...
--> Carlton
Carlton is a residential, commercial and educational area adjoining the northern boundary of central Melbourne at Victoria Street. Its other boundaries are Elizabeth Street/Royal Parade, Cemetery...
--> Mount Evelyn
Mount Evelyn is a residential and rural suburb east of Lilydale, 37 km. east of Melbourne. The area was originally named Evelyn, after Evelyn Heales, the daughter of the Victorian Premier, Richard...
--> Wattle Glen
Wattle Glen, a mostly rural locality on the Diamond Creek, is 25 km. north-east of Melbourne, between Diamond Creek and Hurstbridge. Its name arose from the wattle trees which are still profuse in...
--> Hawthorn East
Hawthorn East is a residential area 9 km. east of Melbourne between Auburn and Burke Road, Camberwell. It extends in a north-south direction from Barkers Road to Gardiner's Creek. At the southern...
--> Clifton Springs
Clifton Springs is a coastal residential township on the northern side of the Bellarine Peninsula, 18 km. east of Geelong. An early land owner was Thomas Bates, a member of the family which...
--> Creswick
Creswick is a former gold-mining township 20 km. north of Ballarat. It is set in undulating ranges, partly forested, which formed an extensive goldfields area that was discovered during the early...
--> Blackburn South
Blackburn South, a residential suburb 17 km, east of Melbourne, is bounded by Middleborough Road on the west and Forest Hill on the east. Its southern border abuts Burwood East. The dividing line...
--> Darebin
Darebin is a residential locality 8 km. north-east of Melbourne, immediately west of Ivanhoe. It is situated on the Darebin Creek a tributary of the Yarra River with headwaters at Woodstock. The...
--> Christmas Hills
Christmas Hills is a rural locality 37 km north-east of central Melbourne, between Kangaroo Ground and Yarra Glen.. It was occupied for grazing by 1842 and a shepherd named David Christmas became...
--> Ashwood
Ashwood, 14 km. south-east of Melbourne, is a residential suburb adjoining Ashburton and Burwood. Its name derives from its two neighbours. Ashwood's western boundary is Warrigal Road, the...
--> Boronia
Boronia is a residential suburb 29 km. east of Melbourne near Ferntree Gully. Land selections began in the Boronia area in the 1870s, and the Ringwood to Upper Ferntree Gully railway was built in...
--> Brunswick West
Brunswick West is a residential suburb 6 km. north of Melbourne. It lies between the Moonee Ponds Creek and central Brunswick with the Royal Park lands at its southern border. It was the last...
--> Carlton North
Carlton North is a residential suburb 4 km. north of Melbourne. Its southern boundary is Princes Street/Cemetery Road. On its west is Princes Park, next to which is the Melbourne General...
--> Hoppers Crossing
Hoppers Crossing, a residential suburb immediately east of Werribee, is 25 km. west-south-west of Melbourne. Hoppers Lane runs through the Werribee animal-research institute and crosses the...
--> Kangaroo Ground
Kangaroo Ground is a rural and urban locality north-east of Melbourne. The small township is 26 km from Melbourne, and the locality extends about 10 km eastwards. There is also an extensive area...
--> Heatherton
Heatherton is a residential and agricultural district 20 km. south-east of Melbourne, between Moorabbin and Dingley Village. Originally named Kingston by the early settlers John and Richard King, it...
--> Brunswick East
Brunswick East is an inner-urban suburb 6 km north of Melbourne. It lies between Lygon Street and the Merri Creek, and adjoins Carlton North and Fitzroy North at its southern border. Brunswick...
--> Caulfield
Caulfield, a residential area with a prominent metropolitan racecourse, is on Dandenong Road, 10 km. from Melbourne. Until 1994 Caulfield was also a municipal city. The origin of the name is...
--> Carrum Downs
Carrum Downs is a residential area 34 km. south-east of Melbourne adjoining the bayside suburb of Carrum Most of the area is on the former Carrum Swamp. Carrum Downs was a farming area until the...
--> Eaglemont
Eaglemont is an elevated residential suburb 10 km. north-east of Melbourne. It is part of Ivanhoe. The name is probably derived from Mount Eagle, a Crown Grant property acquired by Thomas Walker,...
--> Darnum
The township of Darnum is situated on the Prince's Highway and Gippsland rail line, 110 kilometres east of Melbourne. The Moe River flats lie to the south and undulating hills to the north. The...
--> Lovely Banks
Lovely Banks is an agricultural and rural/residential area immediately north-west of the Geelong urban region. It adjoins the Geelong suburbs of Corio and Norlane. The origin of the name is...
--> Huntingdale
Huntingdale, formerly East Oakleigh, is a residential and industrial suburb 17 km. south-east of Melbourne, between Oakleigh and Clayton. Part of Huntingdale was occupied by the Melbourne Hunt...
--> Mill Park
Mill Park is a residential suburb 18 km. north-east of Melbourne, immediately north of the Janefield Training Centre, Bundoora. The area is named after the Mill Park property owned by Henry...
--> Croydon
Croydon is a residential locality 27 km. east of Melbourne, between Ringwood and Lilydale. The name came into existence in the 1880s, and was the name of the shire when the western part of Lillydale...
--> The Basin
The Basin is a rural and residential suburb 31 km. east of Melbourne in the western foothills of the Dandenong Ranges National Park. Several tributaries of the Dandenong Creek pass through The...
--> Belgrave
Belgrave is 35 km east from Melbourne's central business district in the Shire of Yarra Ranges includes Belgrave Heights and Belgrave South. Belgrave first settled in 1851 was named after a chapel...
--> Richmond
Richmond is roughly 3 km east of Melbourne and has been a residential, industrial and residential, and latterly a more residential, suburb. Its western boundary is Punt Road (Hoddle Street),...
--> Clifton Hill
Clifton Hill is a residential suburb 4 km north-east of Melbourne, separated from Collingwood by Alexandra Parade and the Eastern Freeway. Its eastern boundary is the Merri Creek, and the northern...
--> Grovedale
Grovedale is an outer suburb of Geelong, 6 km. south-south-west of the city centre. It is named after a property of about 76 ha. acquired by Alexander Pennell in 1847, just south of Waurn Ponds...
--> Carnegie
Carnegie is a residential suburb 12 km. south-east of Melbourne on the railway line between Caulfield and Oakleigh. The area was originally known as Rosstown after William Ross, an entrepreneur who...
--> Reservoir
Reservoir is a residential suburb 12 km. north of Melbourne and 2 km. north of Preston. Its named derives from three reservoirs built in 1864, 1909 and 1913, north of Preston to hold the metropolitan...
--> Glen Waverley
Glen Waverley, the terminus of a metropolitan railway line, is a residential suburb 19 km. south-east of Melbourne. The area was first named Black Flat. In 1868 when the area was occupied by...
--> Coburg North
Coburg North, a residential area 10 km. north of Melbourne, contains the localities of Batman, Merlynston and Newlands. The first two are on the Coburg to Fawkner railway line and the last is east of...
--> Cobram
Cobram, a rural township in northern Victoria, is on the Murray River, north of Shepparton. It is situated in the Murray Goulburn irrigation district. Cobram was the name of a pastoral station...
--> Diggers Rest
Diggers rest, a small township set in rural surrounds, in on the Calder Freeway 30 km. north-west of Melbourne. Unlike several small townships on the plains north-west of Melbourne, Diggers Rest...
--> Fairfield
Fairfield, a residential and industrial suburb east of Northcote, is 6 km. north-east of Melbourne. It includes a southerly portion surrounded on three sides by meanders of the Merri Creek and the...
--> Canterbury
Canterbury is an older residential suburb 10 km. east of Melbourne, noted for spacious residences. It adjoins Camberwell on its east and north , and its early settlement and subdivision into market...
--> Chirnside Park
Chirnside Park, formerly West Lilydale or a part of Mooroolbark, is a suburb 33 km. east of Melbourne. The original settlement of Chirnside Park was centred on the Mooroolbark Park homestead and...
--> Ashburton
Ashburton is a mostly postwar residential suburb located 11 km. south east of Melbourne. The locality's name arose when the station on the Outer Circle railway line (1890} was named Ashburton, at...
--> Bundoora
Bundoora is an extensive suburb comprising residential, community-service and educational areas 15 km. north-east of Melbourne. It is bordered on the west by the Darebin Creek and on the east by the...
--> Corio
Corio is a residential and industrial suburb in the Geelong region, 9 km. north of Geelong and 56 km. south-west of Melbourne. It adjoins Corio Bay, which is on the western side of Port Phillip Bay....
--> Hurstbridge
Hurstbridge, once an apple growing district, is now more a residential suburb 26 km north-east of Melbourne. It is on the Diamond Creek and is the terminus of a railway line from Melbourne. Its...
--> Box Hill North
Box Hill North, 14 km. east of Melbourne, is bordered by the Koonung Koonung Creek on the north, and stretches east-west across the whole of the former Box Hill municipality. Its southern boundary is...
--> Upwey
Upwey is a residential suburb in hilly surrounds 34 km. east-south-east of Melbourne and 2 km. west of Belgrave. Until the turn of the century Upwey did not have a separate identity. In the middle...
--> Glen Huntly Road Elsternwick
Nestled between Elwood and Caulfield, just 9kms south of Melbourne CBD, Elsternwick is the perfect place for a daytime or evening adventure, combining old-world charm with modern...
--> Brighton East
Brighton East is a residential suburb 13 km south-east of Melbourne. It is east of Hampton Street and between North and South Roads. Its northern section is crossed by the Elster Creek (which runs...
--> Hamlyn Heights
Hamlyn Heights is an elevated residential area on the north-west outskirts of the Geelong urban area. It is divided form Bell Park and Bell Post Hill by the Midland Highway/Ballarat Road. (The Bell...
--> Keon Park
Keon Park is a residential area 14 km. north of Melbourne between Reservoir and Thomastown. The area in which Keon Park is situated comprised two allotments of Robert Hoddle's subdivision of 1838....
--> Lalor
Lalor is a postwar residential suburb 17 km. north of Melbourne in the north of what was formerly Thomastown. In 1946 a group of ex-servicemen, mostly with links with the labour movement, formed...
--> West Melbourne
West Melbourne, an industrial, commercial and residential suburb, adjoins the north-west corner of Melbourne's central business area. The Flagstaff Gardens and the Queen Victoria Market are included...
--> Maindample
Maindample is a village and rural district on the Maroondah Highway where it passes to the north of Lake Eildon. It is about 120 km. north-east of Melbourne. Maindample is set in lightly timbered,...
--> Garden City
Garden City is a residential area 5 km. south-west of Melbourne, and immediately west of Port Melbourne. The land on which Garden City is laid out was known as Sandridge Flat, and subsequently as...
--> Herne Hill
Herne Hill is a residential suburb 3 km. west-north-west of Geelong. Herne Hill was a suburb of the former Geelong West municipality, and before then was a district situated between Geelong West...
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