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 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.
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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.
- 01Melbourne 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 - 02Victoria 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 - 03Aberfeldie 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 - 04St 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 - 05Melbourne'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 - 06Defence 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 - 07Highpoint 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 - 08St. 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 - 09Brunswick 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 - 10Christ 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
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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 Ponds11 km · quickest by road, 34 min · A$1.5–2
- Hobart (Cambridge) → Moonee Ponds605 km · quickest by air, 4h 23m · A$180–270
- Adelaide → Moonee Ponds648 km · quickest by air, 4h 40m · A$190–290
- 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 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.
- 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.
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Next door to Moonee Ponds
Moonee Ponds is 7 km from Melbourne, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Parkvillesuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia3.7 km
- Brunswicksuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia3.8 km
- Ascot Valesuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia1.6 km
- Essendonsuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia1.9 km
- Kensingtonsuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia3 km
- Brunswick Westsuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia2.1 km