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Moonee Ponds

Moonee Ponds is an inner-city suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 7 km (4.3 mi) north-west of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Moonee Valley local government area.

Moonee Ponds
Moonee Ponds · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Moonee Ponds is an inner-city suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 7 km (4.3 mi) north-west of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Moonee Valley local government area. Moonee Ponds recorded a population of 16,224 at the 2021 census.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Moonee Ponds

10 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
    Melbourne Zoo

    Melbourne Zoo is a zoo in Melbourne, Australia. It is located within Royal Park in Parkville, approximately 4 kilometres north of the centre of Melbourne.

    3.6 km · zoo in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Victoria University

    Victoria University is an Australian public research university based in Melbourne, Victoria. It is a dual-sector university, providing courses in both higher education and technical and further education.

    3.7 km · dual-sector public research university based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    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.

    1.8 km · cricket ground in Melbourne, Australia · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St Aloysius' College

    St Aloysius College is a Roman Catholic, co-educational secondary day school in North Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It was established by the Sisters of Mercy in 1887.

    3.7 km · Catholic secondary college, North Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Melbourne's Living Museum of the West

    Melbourne's Living Museum of the West is a community history, culture and ecomuseum, located in Maribyrnong, a western suburb of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia. The focus of the museum is to document, preserve and interpret the industrial, environmental, social and Indigenous history of the western suburbs of Melbourne.

    2.5 km · culture museum in Melbourne, Australia · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    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.

    3.6 km · historic commonwealth heritage site in Maribyrnong VIC · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Highpoint Shopping Centre

    Highpoint Shopping Centre is a shopping centre located in Maribyrnong, in the western suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Highpoint is Victoria's third largest shopping centre and the fifth largest in Australia, with an annual turnover of $778 million and over 15 million shoppers visiting each year.

    3.1 km · shopping centre in Maribyrnong, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    St. Ambrose Church

    St Ambrose Church is a Roman Catholic church located on Sydney Road in Brunswick, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

    3.7 km · church in Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Brunswick Town Hall

    Brunswick Town Hall is located on the corner of Sydney Road and Dawson Street in the inner northern Melbourne suburb of Brunswick, Victoria, Australia.

    3.7 km · town hall in Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Christ Church Anglican church, Brunswick

    The Christ Church Brunswick is an Anglican church located at 10 Glenlyon Road, in Brunswick, an inner northern suburb of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia. Built in stages between 1857 and 1875, the church was designed in an unusual Villa rustica variation of the Italianate architecture popular in Melbourne during that era.

    3.8 km · heritage-listed church in Brunswick, 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.

Go there

Getting to Moonee Ponds

Airports
Melbourne (MEL), 13 km · Melbourne Avalon (AVV), 50 km
Stations
Jewell, 3.6 km · Anstey, 3.6 km · Glenbervie, 2 km · Pascoe Vale, 3.9 km · Strathmore, 2.5 km
  • Geelong/Melbourne → Moonee Ponds
    11 km · quickest by road, 34 min · A$1.5–2
  • Hobart (Cambridge) → Moonee Ponds
    605 km · quickest by air, 4h 23m · A$180–270
  • Adelaide → Moonee Ponds
    648 km · quickest by air, 4h 40m · A$190–290
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Moonee Ponds

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 Moonee Ponds. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextMelbourne is fairly centrally located on the coast of Victoria, and there are many natural and man-made attractions that make for a nice day trip.

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

The nearest places where the work is done
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    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    647 km
  2. 02
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    719 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

    2,063 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    4,206 km

If you know how people move in Moonee Ponds – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Moonee Ponds

Moonee Ponds is 7 km from Melbourne, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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