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Kingsville

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Maribyrnong City Council VIC, PO Box 58, Kingsville, VIC 3012
03 9688 0200

Description

Kingsville is an inner-western suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 9 km from Melbourne's CBD.

Kingsville is an inner-western suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 9 km from Melbourne's CBD. Its local government area is the City of Maribyrnong. At the 2016 census, Kingsville had a population of 3,946.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.

History

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.

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Type: Suburbs

Population: 1,001 - 10,000

Time zone: UTC +11:00

Area: 0.725 km2

Elevation: 11 to 50 metres

Town elevation: 24 m

Population number: 3,946

Local Government Area: Maribyrnong City Council

Location

Maribyrnong City Council VIC, PO Box 58, Kingsville, VIC 3012

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This article contains content imported from the English Wikipedia article on Kingsville, Victoria