| Keilor East Melbourne, Victoria |
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| Population: | 13,069 (2006)[1] | ||||||||||||
| Postcode: | 3033 | ||||||||||||
| Area: | 9.5 km² (3.7 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Location: | 16 km (10 mi) from Melbourne | ||||||||||||
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| State District: | Niddrie | ||||||||||||
| Federal Division: | Maribyrnong | ||||||||||||
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Keilor East is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 16 km north-west from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area are the Cities of Brimbank and Moonee Valley. At the 2006 Census, Keilor East had a population of 13,069.
Keilor East is bounded in the west by the Maribyrnong River in the City of Brimbank, in the north by the Calder Freeway, in the east by Hoffmans Road, and in the south by Buckley Street, Steele Creek and Rose Hill Road.
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Keilor East Post Office opened on 1 July 1947. This was renamed Niddrie in 1956, and a new Keilor East office opened in November 1957.
Keilor East was previously in the local district of the Keilor council though now sits partially in the Brimbank LGA (west of the Albion-Jacana railway line) and the remainder in the Moonee Valley LGA (east of the Albion-Jacana railway line).
East Keilor is serviced by Milleara Shopping Centre (previously named and still commonly known as Milleara Mall), on the corner of Milleara Road and Buckley Street, as well as the small Centreway Shopping Centre and Dinah Parade shopping strip.
Centreway Shopping Centre's claim to fame is that it remains the home of the original JB Hi-Fi store founded by John Barbuto. JB Hi-Fi has now spread across the nation and it is now Australia's biggest selling retailer of CDs.
The following bus routes service Keilor East:
A Keilor East station is a proposed station on proposed Melbourne Airport line. If this line goes ahead it will run along the existing Albion-Jacana line from Albion station, through the suburbs of Sunshine North and Keilor East before branching off towards Melbourne Airport.
Large parts of the suburb are under the flight path of nearby Melbourne Airport which is curfew-free.
Keilor East offers a public primary school, Keilor Heights Primary School, St. Peters School a private primary 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 1980s and 1990s, 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 by the State Liberal Government of Jeff Kennett, and Keilor Heights absorbed most of their students.
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