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There are 1025 suburbs in Greater Melbourne, some without postcodes, shared or names of railways stations.
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--> 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...
--> 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...
--> 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...
--> 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....
--> 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...
--> 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...
--> 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...
--> Flowerdale
Flowerdale is a rural district and township 65 km. north-north-east of Melbourne. It is reached by crossing the Kinglake ranges, and is about mid way between Kinglake West and Yea. Flowerdale is...
--> 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...
--> 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...
--> 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...
--> Geelong North
Geelong North is a residential and industrial suburb on the west side of Corio Bay. It is separated from Geelong by Geelong West. Its northern boundary, Cowies Creek, separates it from Norlane,...
--> 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...
--> 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...
--> 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...
--> 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...
--> 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...
--> 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...
--> 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...
--> 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...
--> 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...
--> 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...
--> 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...
--> 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...
--> 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),...
--> 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...
--> 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...
--> Heathcote
Heathcote is situated on the Northern Highway 110 km, an easy one and a half hours drive, north of Melbourne. With a population of about 3500 it is a thriving town. Heathcote is also the gateway...
--> 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...
--> 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...
--> 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...
--> 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...
--> 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...
--> 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...
--> 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...
--> 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...
--> Hobsons Bay
Hobsons Bay is a municipality formed on 22 June, 1994, by the union of Altona and Williamstown cities, Laverton (part of Werribee city) and southern parts of Footscray city. It has river and maritime...
--> 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...
--> 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...
--> 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....
--> 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...
--> 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...
--> 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...
--> 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...
--> 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...
--> 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,...
--> 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...
--> 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...
--> 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....
--> 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...
--> 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...
--> 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,...
--> 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...
--> 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...
--> 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...
--> 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,...
--> 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...
--> 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...
--> 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...
--> 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...
--> 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...
--> 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...
--> 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...
--> 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...
--> 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...
--> 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...
--> 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,...
--> 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....
--> 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...
--> 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,...
--> 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...
--> 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...
--> 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...
--> 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...
--> 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...
--> 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...
--> 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...
--> Melbourne
Melbourne's central city area has traditionally been defined as the "Golden Mile", which is the checker-board survey by the government surveyor, Robert Hoddle, who in 1837 fixed a township of six...
--> 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...
--> 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...
--> 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,...
--> 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...
--> 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...
--> 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...
--> 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...
--> 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...
--> 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...
--> 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...
--> 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...
--> Montrose
Montrose is a suburb on the north-western foothills of the Dandenong Ranges, 32 km. east of Melbourne. Settlement of surveyed allotments occurred in the 1870s and the area was known as...
--> 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...
--> 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...
--> 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...
--> 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...
--> 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...
--> 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...
--> 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...
--> 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...
--> 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...
--> 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...
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