Meadow Heights, Victoria

Meadow Heights Melbourne, Victoria
Meadow Heights
Population:	14,559 (2006)[1]
Established:	1980s
Postcode:	3048
Area:	4.6 km² (1.8 sq mi)
Location:	18 km (11 mi) from Melbourne
LGA:	City of Hume
State District:	Broadmeadows
Federal Division:	Calwell
Suburbs around Meadow Heights: Greenvale Roxburgh Park Somerton Greenvale Meadow Heights Coolaroo Attwood Broadmeadows Dallas

Meadow Heights is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 18 km north from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Hume. At the 2006 Census, Meadow Heights had a population of 14,559.

History

Prior to Meadows Heights the area was officially known as 'Broadmeadows North'.^[2]

Meadow Heights underwent a property boom in the late 1980s and early 1990s, as demand for new houses rose, forcing prospective buyers into the outer suburban area. Meadow Heights Post Office opened on March 6, 1995. ^[3]

In recent years, developers have focused their efforts on suburbs to the north, with very few new housing projects being completed since 2000.

Transport

Bordered on the east by Pascoe Vale Road, parkland on the west and an inaccessible Somerton Road to the north, Meadow Heights is served by three bus routes.

Broadmeadows railway station is situated 4 km to the south, while Roxburgh Park railway station is situated 2 km to the north and a new train station in Coolaroo was opened on 6 June 2010. The area is served extensively by local taxi companies.

Education

• Meadow Heights Primary School
• Bethal Primary School

Shopping and attractions

Meadow Heights offers little in the way of attractions, with the nearest cinema complex being located to the south, in Broadmeadows. There are several youth centres for social activities, and there is both an AFL affiliated and a soccer team in the area.

There are around four milk bars; on Bicentennial Crescent and Magnolia Boulevard in the North, Taggerty Crescent in the centre, and one on El Dorado Crescent to the south.

The main shopping centre is Centro Meadow Heights which is located on Paringa Boulevard, it features a SUPA IGA and over 25 specialty shops. The centre is undergoing^[when?] a development which would include an Aldi Supermarket and an extra five specialty stores to the centre.

There is also a mosque in Meadow Heights.

Recently^[when?] a skate bowl just off Buchan Street was completed.

Meadow Heights has parks all throughout the suburb, the most largest of which is The Broadmeadows Valley Park which starts from Meadow Heights right down to Jacana with a bike trail along-side. The Park has soccer fields and playgrounds near Barry Road and Magnolia Boulevarde, providing barbecue and picnic areas for residents. Shankland Wetlands has a variety of introduced and native birdse, the wetlands is situated to Meadow Height's south at the end of Barry Road.

Demographics

A sizable portion of Meadow Heights is non-Anglo-Australian, with the main ethnic groups being Turkish (about a quarter of Meadow Heights's population according to the ABS 2001 census), and although there is a part of Meadow Heights that does have a large percentage of Australia born citizens of Anglo Saxon heritage.

References

1. ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (25 October 2007). "Meadow Heights (State Suburb)". 2006 Census QuickStats. http://www.censusdata.abs.gov.au/ABSNavigation/prenav/LocationSearch?collection=Census&period=2006&areacode=SSC21437&producttype=QuickStats&breadcrumb=PL&action=401. Retrieved 2007-09-26. 
2. ^ Melway First Edition, accessed 25 November 2008
3. ^ Premier Postal History, Post Office List, https://www.premierpostal.com/cgi-bin/wsProd.sh/Viewpocdwrapper.p?SortBy=VIC&country=, retrieved 2008-04-11 

See also

• City of Broadmeadows - the former local government area of which Meadow Heights was a part

External links

Coordinates: 37°39′11″S 144°55′16″E / 37.653°S 144.921°E / -37.653; 144.921