Description
Kingsville is an inner-western suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 9 km from Melbourne's CBD.
Kingsville is an inner-western suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 9 km from Melbourne's CBD. Its local government area is the City of Maribyrnong. At the 2016 census, Kingsville had a population of 3,946.Kingsville is a small suburb nestled primarily between West Footscray and Yarraville, and is often considered to be a part of one or the other. The suburb forms a right-angled triangle, bounded in the east by Williamstown Road, in the south by Somerville Road, with Geelong Road as the hypotenuse.
History
Kingsville was the original name for the entire West Yarraville region. This region was later renamed either Yarraville (south of Somerville Road) or West Footscray (north of Somerville Road), with South Kingsville retaining its original name. In the late 1990s the original name of Kingsville returned to the "wedge" of West Footscray with its present boundaries.
Kingsville Post Office opened on 1 January 1915.
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Population: 1001-10000
Time zone: UTC +11:00
Area: 0.725 km2
Elevation: 11-50 metres
Town elevation: 24 m
Population number: 3,946
Local Government Area: Maribyrnong City Council
Attribution
This article contains content imported from the English Wikipedia article on Kingsville, Victoria
