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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
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The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    Aberfeldie 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
  2. 02
    Brimbank 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
  3. 03
    Maribyrnong 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
  4. 04
    Tompsett 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
  5. 05
    Defence 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
  6. 06
    Old 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
  7. 07
    Keilor 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

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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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 East
    17 km · quickest by road, 44 min · A$2.5–3.5
  • Hobart (Cambridge) → Keilor East
    610 km · quickest by air, 4h 8m · A$170–260
  • Adelaide → Keilor East
    642 km · quickest by air, 4h 25m · A$180–270
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Not yet researched

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.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThe route from Port Melbourne is slightly more convoluted and includes a ferry (see below for more details).

From Wikivoyage: Melbourne/Western suburbs, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    651 km
  2. 02
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    713 km
  3. 03
    K'gari (formerly Fraser Island)AU

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    1,597 km
  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    2,069 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    4,200 km

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Around it

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
  • Niddriesuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia2.1 km
  • Airport Westsuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia2.4 km
  • Kealbasuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia3.1 km