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Watsonia North

Watsonia North is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 17 km north-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Banyule local government area.

Watsonia North
Watsonia North · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Watsonia North is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 17 km north-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Banyule local government area. Watsonia North recorded a population of 3,799 at the 2021 census. In 2022 Watsonia North has emerged as Australia’s most tightly held suburb, with homeowners hanging onto their houses for more than 23 years on average before selling.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Watsonia North

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
    La Trobe University

    La Trobe University is a public research university based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Its main campus is located in the suburb of Bundoora.

    3.8 km · university in Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science

    The La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science is an Australian institute based at La Trobe University in Melbourne. It contains research groups in life sciences, physical sciences, and applied sciences and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in these areas through the School of Molecular Sciences.

    3.7 km · Australian research institute based at La Trobe University · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St. Petka Macedonian Orthodox Church, Mill Park

    St Petka Macedonian Orthodox Church (Macedonian: Македонска Православна Црква "Св. Петка", Makedonska Pravoslavna Crkva "Sv.

    3 km · church in Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Warrawee Park

    Warrawee Park is an Australian rules football and cricket venue located in the Melbourne suburb of Oakleigh. The name also refers to the wider public park in which the oval is located.

    900 m · park in Australia · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Bundoora Park Homestead

    The Bundoora Park Homestead, also called the Bundoora Homestead and the Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, is a former homestead, a former repatriation hospital, and now contemporary arts centre, located at 7–27 Snake Gully Drive in Bundoora, in the City of Darebin, in the northern suburbs of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia. The site operated as a homestead between 1900 and 1920; and then as a repatriation hospital from 1920 to 1993.

    2.7 km · Heritage-listed house in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Brand Junction

    Uni Hill Factory Outlets is a shopping precinct located in the University Hill area of Bundoora in the outer north eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Australia. Brand Junction is one of nine precincts anticipated by the Janefield Development Plan, which was approved on 20 July 2004 by the City of Whittlesea and contains a mix of residential, commercial, retail and industry intended to be developed over the next 10–12 years by Melbourne property developer MAB Corporation on a 103.8-hectare site which is bounded by Plenty Road to the west, the Metropolitan Ring Road to the south, the Plenty Road Gorge Parklands to the east and RMIT University's Bundoora East Campus to the north.

    1.7 km · shopping mall in Bundoora, Melbourne Australia · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Mount Cooper

    Mount Cooper is located within Bundoora Park, a large public park, in the Melbourne suburb of Bundoora, and peaks at 137 meters above sea level. Mount Cooper is accessible by car via Mount Cooper Scenic Drive.

    2.9 km · mountain in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia

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Go there

Getting to Watsonia North

Airports
Melbourne (MEL), 22 km · Melbourne Avalon (AVV), 66 km
Stations
Montmorency, 3.9 km
  • Geelong/Melbourne → Watsonia North
    17 km · quickest by road, 46 min · A$2.5–3
  • Hobart (Cambridge) → Watsonia North
    607 km · quickest by air, 4h 49m · A$200–310
  • Adelaide → Watsonia North
    658 km · quickest by air, 5h 6m · A$220–330
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Watsonia North

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

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

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    650 km
  2. 02
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

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

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    1,583 km
  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    2,055 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    4,208 km

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Around it

Next door to Watsonia North

Watsonia North is 16 km from Melbourne, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Greensboroughsuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia3.5 km
  • Bundoorasuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia1.6 km
  • Mill Parksuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia3.6 km
  • Watsoniasuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia900 m
  • Macleodsuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia2 km
  • Viewbanksuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia3.8 km