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Thornbury

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Darebin City Council VIC, PO Box 91, Thornbury, VIC 3071
03 8470 8888

Description

Thornbury is an inner suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 7 km north of Melbourne's Central Business District.

Thornbury is an inner suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 7 km north of Melbourne's Central Business District. Its local government area is the City of Darebin. At the 2016 census, Thornbury had a population of 18,568.

Thornbury is bordered by the Merri Creek to the west, and the Darebin Creek to the east. The heart of Thornbury is known as Thornbury Village, and is located at the centre of Thornbury at the intersection of High Street and Normanby Avenue/Clarendon Street.

Thornbury is shaped as a thin strip of land sandwiched between Northcote and Preston. Its east-west distance is four times its north–south distance. For 111 years Thornbury was part of the former City of Northcote Local Government Area, which existed from 1883 until June 1994. As such, Thornbury is universally understood to be a demographic and commercial satellite of Northcote, along with Westgarth, although the latter does not have its own postcode.

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Type: Suburbs

Population: 10001-100000

Time zone: UTC +11:00

Area: 5.133 km2

Elevation: 51-200 metres

Town elevation: 60 m

Population number: 18,568

Local Government Area: Darebin City Council

Location

Darebin City Council VIC, PO Box 91, Thornbury, VIC 3071

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This article contains content imported from the English Wikipedia article on Thornbury, Victoria

Thornbury - Localista

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