Keilor East
Keilor East or East Keilor is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 13 km (8.1 mi) north-west of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the Cities of Brimbank and Moonee Valley local government areas.

Keilor East or East Keilor is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 13 km (8.1 mi) north-west of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the Cities of Brimbank and Moonee Valley local government areas. Keilor East recorded a population of 15,073 at the 2021 census.
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Worth seeing in and around Keilor East
7 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Aberfeldie Park
Aberfeldie Park is a cricket ground in Essendon, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia. It is the home of the Aberfeldie Park Cricket Club, and hosted several Rose Bowl series Women's One Day International cricket matches during the winter of 1984–85.
4 km · cricket ground in Melbourne, Australia · Wikipedia - 02Brimbank Park
Brimbank Park is a 328-hectare metropolitan park located in Keilor East, a north-western suburb of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia. Established in 1976 on the banks of the Maribyrnong River, approximately 15 kilometres north–west of the Melbourne city centre, the park is managed by Parks Victoria.
2.4 km · park in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia - 03Maribyrnong River Viaduct
The Albion Viaduct, officially the Maribyrnong River Viaduct, and also known locally as the Quarter Mile Bridge, is a trestle viaduct across the Maribyrnong River and Maribyrnong River Trail that carries the Albion–Jacana railway line, located in the inner western suburbs of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia. It is located near the E J Whitten Bridge, and is almost 400 metres long.
1.7 km · railway bridge in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia - 04Tompsett Stadium
Knights Stadium is an Australian association football stadium in Sunshine North, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria. Built in 1989, it is used by the Melbourne Knights as a home ground in the NPL Victoria competition, and previously in the National Soccer League.
2.8 km · Australian soccer stadium · Wikipedia - 05Defence Explosive Factory Maribyrnong
The Defence Explosive Factory Maribyrnong is a heritage-listed military installation and former munitions factory located at Cordite Avenue, Maribyrnong, an inner-western suburb of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia. Built in 1910 and actively producing munitions for World War I and II, the factory was closed in 1994.
2.9 km · historic commonwealth heritage site in Maribyrnong VIC · Wikipedia - 06Old Iron Bridge, Keilor
The Keilor Iron Bridge, also known as the Old Iron Bridge, Keilor and the Basket Bridge, is a wrought iron girder footbridge across the Maribyrnong River, between Keilor and Keilor East, in the City of Brimbank, located in the outer north-western suburbs of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia. Completed in 1868, on the traditional lands of the Wurundjeri people, the bridge carried the Calder Highway until 1984, and was used for local road traffic following completion of the Calder Freeway bypass of Keilor.
2.8 km · heritage-listed footbridge bridge in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia - 07Keilor Hotel
The Keilor Hotel is a hotel located at 670–674 Old Calder Highway, in Keilor, in the City of Brimbank, in the western suburbs of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia. Built in 1848 on the traditional lands of the Wurundjeri people, the hotel was added to the Victorian Heritage Register on 14 February 2002 in recognition of its historical and architectural significance; and was also added to the non-statutory and now defunct Register of the National Estate on an unknown date.
3.4 km · heritage-listed hotel in Keilor, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia
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Getting to Keilor East
- Airports
- Melbourne (MEL), 8 km · Melbourne Avalon (AVV), 48 km
- Stations
- Essendon Airport, 3.7 km
- Geelong/Melbourne → Keilor East17 km · quickest by road, 44 min · A$2.5–3.5
- Hobart (Cambridge) → Keilor East610 km · quickest by air, 4h 8m · A$170–260
- Adelaide → Keilor East642 km · quickest by air, 4h 25m · A$180–270
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Keilor East
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Keilor East. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThe route from Port Melbourne is slightly more convoluted and includes a ferry (see below for more details).
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Next door to Keilor East
Keilor East is 12 km from Melbourne, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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- Keilor Parksuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia2.7 km
- Essendon Westsuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia2.3 km
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- Airport Westsuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia2.4 km
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