Taylors Lakes
Taylors Lakes is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 20 km (12 mi) north-west of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Brimbank local government area.

Taylors Lakes is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 20 km (12 mi) north-west of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Brimbank local government area. Taylors Lakes recorded a population of 16,910 at the 2021 census.
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Worth seeing in and around Taylors Lakes
5 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.
- 01Macedonian Orthodox Cathedral of the Dormition of the Virgin Mary, Sydenham
The Macedonian Orthodox Cathedral of the Dormition of the Virgin Mary is a Macedonian Orthodox cathedral church located in Sydenham, a suburb of northwestern Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
1.8 km · church in Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia - 02Gilson College
Gilson College is a Christian school located in the Melbourne suburbs of Mernda and Taylors Hill, Victoria, Australia. It is a private co-educational early learning, primary, and secondary day school.
3.9 km · independent primary and secondary school in Taylors Hill, VIC, Australia · Wikipedia - 03Keilor archaeological site
The Keilor archaeological site was among the first places to demonstrate the antiquity of Aboriginal occupation of Australia when a cranium, unearthed in 1940, was found to be nearly 15,000 years old. Subsequent investigations of Pleistocene alluvial terraces revealed hearths about 31,000 years BP, making Keilor one of the earliest sites of human habitation in Australia.
3.7 km · Australian archaeological site in Victoria · Wikipedia - 04Watergardens Town Centre
Watergardens Town Centre is a super regional shopping centre located in Taylors Lakes, 24 kilometres north-west of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It opened in 1997, and is owned by the Queensland Investment Corporation.
1.8 km · shopping centre and homemaker complex in Taylors Lakes, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia - 05Overnewton
The Overnewton complex is a heritage-listed former homestead and its former gatehouse, located in Keilor, in the City of Brimbank, in the western suburbs of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia. The former homestead has been used as a function and events venue since c. 1961; and the former gatehouse as a community centre since a similar time.
2.2 km · Heritage-listed homestead and gatehouse in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia
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Getting to Taylors Lakes
- Airports
- Melbourne (MEL), 5 km · Melbourne Avalon (AVV), 48 km
- Stations
- Watergardens, 1.9 km · Keilor Plains, 3.2 km
- Geelong/Melbourne → Taylors Lakes25 km · quickest by road, 47 min · A$3.5–5
- Hobart (Cambridge) → Taylors Lakes616 km · quickest by air, 4h 3m · A$160–250
- Adelaide → Taylors Lakes634 km · quickest by air, 4h 20m · A$170–270
- 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 Taylors Lakes
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 Taylors Lakes. 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 Taylors Lakes
Taylors Lakes is 19 km from Melbourne, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Keilorsuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia3.3 km
- St Albanssuburb of Melbourne, Australia4 km
- Sydenhamsuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia2.6 km
- Delaheysuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia2.6 km
- Keilor Downssuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia2.4 km
- Keilor Lodgesuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia900 m