This is a list of Municipalities and their suburbs (neighbourhoods), townships, and rural localities in the greater metropolitan area of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Suburbs are defined here as localities within the legislated Urban Growth Boundary,[1] all of which have some urban development. This line is the effective boundary of suburban Melbourne; outside it lie rural areas, and some townships of varying size.

Each suburb is followed by its postcode. Some suburbs share the same postcode.

Indented entries are recognised by the Geographic Names Board as unbounded neighbourhoods except when italicised. Those italicised usually have, or have had, Post Offices open under that name.

Information about exact suburb boundaries can be obtained from the Department of Environment Land Water and Planning.

In Australia, a suburb is a named and bounded locality of a city, with an urban nature, regardless of its location within that city. The term "inner suburbs" refers to the older, denser, urban areas closer to the original colonial centre of the cities and "outer suburbs" refers to the urban areas more remote from the centre of the metropolitan area. Sometimes the term "middle ring suburb" is used to refer to areas that were urbanised early in a city's expansion after the inner suburbs had become established. This differs from British and North American usage, in which the term "suburb" is usually not applied to urban areas (neighbourhoods) that are close to a major city centre or inside the central city's local government boundary.

Inner City municipalities and their suburbs (followed by their 4-digit postcodes)

Suburbs in the inner Melbourne councils, north to south:

City of Melbourne

See Melbourne central business district for precincts in the CBD.

City of Port Phillip

City of Yarra

Northern municipalities and their suburbs

Suburbs of the middle northern Melbourne councils. West to east:

City of Banyule

City of Darebin

City of Hume

Suburbs

Townships and rural localities

City of Merri-bek

A 1965 postmark of Coonans Hill, a neighbourhood of the suburb of Pascoe Vale South

Shire of Nillumbik

Suburbs

Towns, townships and rural localities

City of Whittlesea

Suburbs

Towns, townships and rural localities

Eastern municipalities and their suburbs

City of Boroondara

Solway postmark with SE11 area code removed

City of Knox

City of Manningham

Suburbs

City of Maroondah

City of Whitehorse

The last day of operation of the office

Shire of Yarra Ranges

Suburbs

Towns, townships and rural localities

Emerald (part), 3782

Southeastern municipalities and their suburbs

City of Bayside

Shire of Cardinia

Suburbs

Towns, townships and rural localities

City of Casey

Suburbs

Townships and rural localities

City of Greater Dandenong

Suburbs

Rural localities

City of Frankston

Suburbs

Rural locality

City of Glen Eira

City of Kingston

City of Monash

No longer an official name, but Stocksville Post Office was open until 1993

Shire of Mornington Peninsula

Suburbs adjacent to Port Phillip

Suburbs adjacent to Westernport

Townships and rural localities

City of Stonnington

Postmark of Central Park post office in Malvern East

Western municipalities and their suburbs

City of Brimbank

City of Hobsons Bay

City of Maribyrnong

City of Melton

City of Moonee Valley

City of Wyndham

Suburbs

Rural localities

See also

References

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