Keilor East, Victoria
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| Keilor East Melbourne, Victoria |
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| Population: | 13,069 (2006)[1] | ||||||||||||
| Postcode: | 3033 | ||||||||||||
| Area: | 9.5 km² (3.7 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Property Value: | AUD $375,000 [2] | ||||||||||||
| Location: | 16 km (10 mi) from Melbourne | ||||||||||||
| LGA: | City of Moonee Valley | ||||||||||||
| State District: | Niddrie | ||||||||||||
| Federal Division: | Maribyrnong | ||||||||||||
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Keilor East is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Its Local Government Area is the City of Moonee Valley.
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[edit] Commerce
Keilor East is serviced by Milleara Shopping Centre (previously named and still commonly known as Milleara Mall), on the corner of Milleara Road and Buckley Street (the border that divides Keilor East and Avondale Heights), and the small Centreway Shopping Centre.
[edit] Transport
The following bus routes service Keilor East:
- 406 Keilor East - Footscray (via Avondale Heights and Maribyrnong)
- 407 Highpoint City - Avondale Heights
- 465 Keilor Park - Essendon
- 475 Moonee Ponds - Keilor East (via Essendon and Niddrie)
The Keilor East station is proposed on the new Airport Line. If this line goes ahead it will be placed on the Albion-Jacana freight line at Sunshine nth, Keilor East, Airport West and Gowanbrae before it goes off and onto the Airport.
Large parts of the suburb are under the flight path of nearby Melbourne Airport which is curfew free
[edit] Education
Keilor East offers a public primary school, Keilor Heights Primary School, a private primary school, St. Peters School, a campus of the public secondary school Essendon Keilor College, and a campus of the private Uniting Church school Penleigh and Essendon Grammar School. Keilor East had many more schools in the 1980's and 1990's, such as Lincolnville Primary School, Keilor South Primary School and Overland Primary School. Lincolnville and Keilor South merged in 1988 to form Rosehill Park Primary School (on the former Keilor South Primary School site). At the end of 1993, Rosehill Park and Overland closed down, and Keilor Heights absorbed most of their students.
[edit] See also
- City of Keilor - the former local government area of which Keilor East was a part.
[edit] References
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (25 October 2007). Keilor East (State Suburb). 2006 Census QuickStats. Retrieved on 2007-09-29.
- ^ Keilor East, accessed 28 December 2007
Keilor East also provides a great range of sporting facilities such as East Keilor Cricket Club and East Kwilor Football Club.
