Heatherton, Victoria

The suburb has a surprisingly low population for a metropolitan suburb. It is predominantly open space: market garden, golf courses (the Kingston Heath Golf Club and the Capital Golf Club) and parks (Kingston Heath Reserve and Karkarook Park). As part of the Melbourne sandbelt, the area has been subject to significant sand mining in the past, though many extraction sites have now passed to other uses.^[3]

The Kingston Centre, a major regional Aged Care and Rehabilitation facility, is located in Heatherton. The site was originally the Melbourne Benevolent Asylum (where construction began in 1909).^[4] A large proportion of the grounds of the Kingston Centre were sold in the 1990s to the developer Mirvac, who built the 500 homes of the Heath estate between 2000 and 2006.

[edit] Population

Year	Total	Male	Female	Households
2001	1,357
2006^[5]	2,253	1,265	1,258	799

[edit] References

^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (25 October 2007). Heatherton (State Suburb). 2006 Census QuickStats. Retrieved on 2007-09-29.
^ Heatherton, accessed 9 August 2007
^ Sand Mining, City of Kingston Historical Website, accessed 7 August 2007
^ The Melbourne Benevolent Asylum Comes to Cheltenham, City of Kingston Historical Website, accessed 7 August 2007
^ Australian Bureau of Statistics, accessed 7 August 2007

[edit] External links

Heatherton, Victoria is at coordinates 37°57′11″S 145°05′06″E / -37.953, 145.085 (Heatherton, Victoria)Coordinates: 37°57′11″S 145°05′06″E / -37.953, 145.085 (Heatherton, Victoria)

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