Keysborough Melbourne, Victoria |
|||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Parkmore Shopping Centre on Cheltenham Road, Keysborough
|
|||||||||||||
Coordinates | 37°59′20″S 145°10′19″E / 37.989°S 145.172°ECoordinates: 37°59′20″S 145°10′19″E / 37.989°S 145.172°E | ||||||||||||
Population | 22,700 (2014) | ||||||||||||
• Density | 3,550/km2 (9,190/sq mi) | ||||||||||||
Postcode(s) | 3173 | ||||||||||||
Area | 6.4 km2 (2.5 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
Location | |||||||||||||
LGA(s) | City of Greater Dandenong | ||||||||||||
State electorate(s) | Keysborough | ||||||||||||
Federal Division(s) | |||||||||||||
|
Keysborough is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 27 km south-east of Melbourne's central business district. Its local government area is the City of Greater Dandenong. In 2014, Keysborough had an estimated population of 22,800. Keysborough includes market gardens and semi-rural properties and is also a large residential/industrial suburb which started to grow in the 1960s and well into the 1990s.
The Post Office opened on 27 November 1973 and was known as Noble Park South until 1978.
Today, Keysborough facilitates several primary and secondary schools, including the Keysborough campus of Haileybury College and Lighthouse Christian College. Parkmore Shopping Centre includes a Coles, Woolworths, Kmart, Big W, Australia Post and an assortment of specialty stores. As of 2002 the southern corner of the suburb was under development and new housing estates have been developed including The Keys, Hidden Grove, and Crystal Waters. In 2017, Elmswood and Somerfield are new housing estates in southern Keysborough currently under development.
In 2014 Keysborough had an estimated population of approximately 22,800. This suburb features lower levels of migrant settlement and cultural diversity, higher levels of English proficiency, substantially greater incomes and lower rates of early school leaving, than Greater Dandenong.
The 2011 Census found that 53% of Keysborough residents were born overseas, slightly lower than for Greater Dandenong (60%) though more than the corresponding metropolitan percentage (33%). Among the 93 birthplaces of its residents were Vietnam (accounting for 10%), Cambodia (7%), India (4%) and Sri Lanka (4%). Rates of migrant settlement are relatively low, with 3% of Keysborough residents having arrived in Australia within the previous 2.5 years – less than half the figure for Greater Dandenong, of 7%.