Suburbs only include gazetted localities within the contiguous metropolitan area of Melbourne and contain families living in urban environments. Localities including Ravenhall, Somerton and Moorabbin Airport are excluded for these reasons.
Each section is divided by local government area in ascending order of proximity to Flinders Street Station.
The suburbs within each section are ordered alphabetically.
Duplicates between local government areas are removed and suburbs are allocated by the largest portion of the suburbs' areas.
Aintree, Bonnie Brook, Cobblebank, Deanside, Diggers Rest, Grangefields, Harkness, Kurunjang, Melton, Melton South, Mount Atkinson, Strathtulloh, Sunbury, Tarneit Plains, Thornhill Park, Weir Views would be inside the UGB. They were not listed. Prolly a few others as well that I cannot remember at the moment.
As mentioned elsewhere, the UGB isn't a particularly useful definition of Metropolitan Melbourne given that it would have to include various gazetted localities that you would be fairly hard-pressed to call suburbs of Melbourne. As defined by Planning Victoria themselves: "The urban growth boundary (UGB) indicates the long-term limits of urban development and where non-urban values and land uses should prevail in metropolitan Melbourne". This is why is have only included suburbs that are part of a contiguous growth and have urban housing. I think it's good to stick to strict guidelines of what is and isn't part of Metropolitan Melbourne otherwise you run into the meme of "well Bacchus Marsh is part of Melbourne, nah actually Albury is part of Melbourne, nah actually Sydney is part of Melbourne."
As a good example, I recently added Manor Lakes and Mickleham as the contiguous growth extending from Wyndham Vale and Greenvale respectively has extended that far.
Just came across this quiz recently and spent a bit of time on suburbs that supposedly don’t exist. Melton and Melton South have been suburbs of Melbourne for 50 years. Why would you include fledgling suburbs within the Melton city council region but not the central suburbs themselves?
That's fair to some extent. What's your thoughts on Mambourin? It's recently started to develop (due to contiguous growth from Wyndham Vale) but I'm guessing it's not far enough through yet for inclusion?
That's a great question. Mambourin is very soon to be included once it is populated and the suburb boundary does not change. There's a chance there might be another Greenvale/Yuroke problem of the boundary slowly being extended west to accommodate growth. In any case, I'm keeping a watchful eye over that whole Wyndham Vale region!
Also, if you're interested, I am in the process of updating the quiz to accommodate the new-ish boundaries for City of Melton since Fraser Rise now exists and Plumpton has been pushed further out.
Melbourne has expanded once more. Quiz updated after an SVG error with Fraser Rise/Carrum and excludes Tottenham given its lack of anyone living there. Shout out to the eagle-eyed orange14 for pointing this out.
Thanks for making this. I was looking for such a quiz, which lead me to this amazing site. I wish Knox was included, but I understand that it's more in the outer regions.
Hi Quizmaker, would you say that by your definition, Devon Meadows, (To the south) Kalorama and Mount Dandenong (To the east) would classify as Suburbs?
https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/150455/sydney-suburbs
Suburbs only include gazetted localities within the contiguous metropolitan area of Melbourne and contain families living in urban environments. Localities including Ravenhall, Somerton and Moorabbin Airport are excluded for these reasons.
Each section is divided by local government area in ascending order of proximity to Flinders Street Station.
The suburbs within each section are ordered alphabetically.
Duplicates between local government areas are removed and suburbs are allocated by the largest portion of the suburbs' areas.
https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/150455/sydney-suburbs
It is missing a few suburbs, namely the new suburbs in the West.
As a good example, I recently added Manor Lakes and Mickleham as the contiguous growth extending from Wyndham Vale and Greenvale respectively has extended that far.
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