Tecoma, Victoria

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Tecoma
Melbourne, Victoria

Population:

2206 (2001 census)

Postcode:

3160

Area:

1.8 km²

Property Value:

AUD $292,625 ^[1]

Location:

38 km from Melbourne
2 km from Belgrave

LGA:

Shire of Yarra Ranges

State District:

Monbulk

Federal Division:

La Trobe

Suburbs around Tecoma
Ferny Creek	Ferny Creek	Dandenong Ranges
Upwey	Tecoma	Belgrave
Lysterfield	Belgrave Heights	Belgrave Heights

Tecoma is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Its Local Government Area is the Shire of Yarra Ranges. Tecoma is a small town, nestled between Belgrave and Upwey and running up to its favourite and most popular asset, Sherbrooke Forest. Named Tecoma after the shrub that grew in the area when the need for a train station was identified for the timber mill that occupied the site where Tecoma Primary School now stands.

Tecoma is mainly a small suburb; a licenced milk bar called Bon Ton, video outlet called DVD Destination, fish'n'chip shop, a bakery, a second hand clothes shop and a handful of art and craft shops along the main road, Burwood Highway, which leads straight up from Melbourne proper. Tecoma Primary School is located across the road from the strip of shops. Tecoma's station is the second last railway station on the Belgrave line, and is one of a relatively few stations in Melbourne's metropolitan electric rail network to have only one platform.

The homes in Tecoma are mainly in residential bushland, which attracts numerous native birds of many kinds.