Mount Waverley, Victoria
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| Mount Waverley Melbourne, Victoria |
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| Population: | 29218 (2001 census) | ||||||||||||
| Postcode: | 3149 | ||||||||||||
| Area: | 15.9 km² | ||||||||||||
| Property Value: | AUD $440,000 [1] | ||||||||||||
| Location: | 19 km from Melbourne | ||||||||||||
| LGA: | City of Monash | ||||||||||||
| State District: | Oakleigh, Clayton, Mount Waverley | ||||||||||||
| Federal Division: | Chisholm, Bruce | ||||||||||||
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Mount Waverley is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Its Local Government Area is the City of Monash. It is a large suburb that stretches from Highbury Road in the North to Ferntree Gully Road in the South. At the centre of the suburb is Mount Waverley Village shopping centre. Mount Waverley has its own train station on the Glen Waverley line and several schools including Mount Waverley Secondary College, Avila College, Mount Waverley Primary School, Syndal South Primary School, Sussex Heights Primary School, Essex Heights Primary School, Mount Waverley North Primary School, Holy Family Primary School and Huntingtower School.
Mount Waverley is famous for its heritage streets. The suburb was originally a new estate in the 1930s. Due to the onset of the Great depression, the estate did not get off the ground. The streets had been laid down, but no houses were built. These streets were built of concrete, not ashphalt. The surface is still the same as it was in the 1930s, with only minor maintenance over the decades. Residential development did not resurge until the 1950s, claimed by some to be the golden age of Australia. The concrete streets' close vicinity to the Mount Waverley Village give the suburb a unique charm within Melbourne.
Mount Waverley is a quiet friendly suburb, nothing ever happens and when ever you go to the supermarket you are asked wheter you have a community benefits card.
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- Street map from Street Directory, MSN Maps and Multimap.
- Satellite image from Google Maps, WikiMapia and Terraserver.
| Suburbs of the City of Monash | |
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Ashwood | Chadstone | Clayton | Glen Waverley | Hughesdale | Huntingdale | Mount Waverley | Mulgrave | Notting Hill | Oakleigh | Oakleigh East | Oakleigh South | Wheelers Hill |
