Moonee Ponds Melbourne, Victoria |
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The Clocktower Centre, Moonee Ponds |
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Moonee Ponds
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Population: | 12,636 (2006)[1] | ||||||||||||
Postcode: | 3039 | ||||||||||||
Area: | 4.4 km² (1.7 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
Location: | 7 km (4 mi) from Melbourne | ||||||||||||
LGA: | City of Moonee Valley | ||||||||||||
State District: | Essendon | ||||||||||||
Federal Division: | Maribyrnong | ||||||||||||
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Moonee Ponds is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 7 km north-west from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Moonee Valley.
It is home to Queens Park and the Moonee Valley Racecourse. At the 2006 Census, Moonee Ponds had a population of 12,636.
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The suburb has an Australian Rules football team, Maribyrnong Park playing in the Essendon District Football League [2]and another Moonee Valley Football Club based at Ormond Park competing in the same league.[3]
Moonee Ponds Station is located at the western end of Puckle Street, on the Craigieburn railway line. Bus 467 runs from the station to Aberfeldie. At the eastern end of Puckle Street is Moonee Ponds Junction. Tram number 82 terminates at the junction and Tram number 59 stops there. There is a bus interchange at the junction (called Moonee Ponds Interchange) where many bus routes terminate (routes 404 , 472 , 475 , 476 , 477 , 478 , 479 , 483 , 501 , 504 , 506 and 508 ).
The Maribyrnong River Trail and Moonee Ponds Creek Trail are cycling tracks in and around Moonee Ponds.
Moonee Ponds is where Barry Humphries' fictional housewife-megastar Dame Edna Everage originally lived. It is also the home of politician Bill Shorten. Australian singer Tina Arena also spent a large part of her early life growing up in Moonee Ponds.
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