Westmeadows, Victoria

Westmeadows Melbourne, Victoria
Westmeadows Bridge
Westmeadows
Coordinates	37°40′41″S 144°53′35″E / 37.678°S 144.893°E / -37.678; 144.893Coordinates: 37°40′41″S 144°53′35″E / 37.678°S 144.893°E / -37.678; 144.893
Population	5,524 (2011 census)
• Density	1,175/km2 (3,040/sq mi)
Postcode(s)	3049
Area	4.7 km2 (1.8 sq mi)
Location	17 km (11 mi) from Melbourne 4 km (2 mi) from Broadmeadows
LGA(s)	City of Hume
State electorate(s)	Sunbury Yuroke Broadmeadows
Federal Division(s)	Calwell
Suburbs around Westmeadows: Attwood Attwood Coolaroo, Meadow Heights Melbourne Airport Westmeadows Broadmeadows Melbourne Airport, Tullamarine Gladstone Park Jacana

Westmeadows is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 17 km north of Melbourne's central business district. Its local government area is the City of Hume. At the 2011 census, Westmeadows had a population of 5,524.

Mainly a residential suburb, Westmeadows includes the areas east and west of Mickleham Road. It borders include Yuroke Creek between Johnstone Street and Barry Road (the eastern limit), the border with Attwood (the water pipes path parallel to Toora Drive and Linga and Kenny Streets) as well as the Moonee Ponds Creek east of Mickleham Road (the northern limits) and just before the Cleanaway Landfill (the western limit). The area north of residential Westmeadows (still part of Westmeadows) contains the east-west flight path for the Melbourne Airport, Tullamarine. The land under the flight path has been kept undeveloped and is the Broadmeadows Valley Park. It contains two streams which flow into the Moonee Ponds Creek.

The Broadmeadows area, home to the Wurundjeri Aboriginal tribe prior to European settlement, was settled by pastoralists in the 1840s.

Westmeadows contains the original Broadmeadows Village on the Moonee Ponds Creek, but is now west of the present Broadmeadows. The first Broadmeadows township was laid out by a Government survey in 1850. Ardlie Street was its commercial centre with a hotel (the Broadmeadows Hotel, now Westmeadows Tavern), the police station and the Shire office (the District Roads Board Building, opened in 1866). The first Broadmeadows Post Office opened here on 1 January 1855, was renamed Broadmeadows West in 1955 then Westmeadows in 1963.