| Kingsville Melbourne, Victoria |
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| Population: | 3350 (2006)[1] | ||||||||||||
| Postcode: | 3012 | ||||||||||||
| Area: | 0.7 km² (0.3 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Location: | 9 km (6 mi) from Melbourne | ||||||||||||
| LGA: | City of Maribyrnong | ||||||||||||
| State District: | Footscray | ||||||||||||
| Federal Division: | Gellibrand | ||||||||||||
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Kingsville is a suburb 9 km west of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Its Local Government Area is the City of Maribyrnong. At the 2006 Census, Kingsville had a population of 3350.
Kingsville is a small suburb nestled primarily between West Footscray and Yarraville and is often considered to be a part of one or the other. The suburb forms a right-angled triangle, bounded in the east by Williamstown Road, in the south by Somerville Road with Geelong Road as the hypotenuse.
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Kingsville was the original name for the entire West Yarraville region. This region was later renamed either Yarraville (south of Somerville Road) or West Footscray (north of Somerville Road) with South Kingsville retaining its original name. In the late 1990s the original name of Kingsville returned to the "wedge" of West Footscray with its present boundaries.
Kingsville Post Office opened on 1 January 1915. [2]
Kingsville is home to Kingsville Primary School and its attached kindergarten. The nearby Kingsville Kindergarten is in West Footscray, as is the Corpus Christi Catholic School. The nearby Kingsville Primary School is in Yarraville.
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