Keilor East, Victoria

Infobox Australian Place | type = suburb
name = Keilor East
city = Melbourne
state = vic


caption =
lga = City of Moonee Valley
postcode = 3033
pop = 13,069 (2006)Census 2006 AUS | id = SSC21371 | name = Keilor East (State Suburb) | accessdate = 2007-09-29 | quick = on]
area = 9.5
est =
propval = $375,000 [ [http://www.domain.com.au/public/suburbprofile.aspx?suburb=Keilor%20East&postcode=3033 Keilor East] , accessed 28 December 2007]
stategov = Niddrie
fedgov = Maribyrnong
dist1 = 16
location1= Melbourne
dist2 =
location2=
near-nw = Keilor
near-n = Keilor Park
near-ne = Airport West
near-w = Kealba
near-e = Niddrie
near-sw = Sunshine North
near-s = Avondale Heights
near-se = Essendon West

Keilor East is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Its Local Government Area is the City of Moonee Valley.

Commerce

Keilor East is serviced by Milleara Shopping Centre (previously named and still commonly known as Milleara Mall), on the corner of Milleara Road and Buckley Street, as well as the small Centreway Shopping Centre and Dinah Parade shopping strip. Centreway Shopping Centre has a rather surprising claim to fame, in that it was (and still is) the home of the first JB Hi-Fi store, which has spread across the nation over recent years and is now the biggest selling retailer of CDs in the country.

Transport

The following bus routes service Keilor East:

* 406 Keilor East - Footscray (via Avondale Heights and Maribyrnong)
* 407 Highpoint City - Avondale Heights
* 465 Keilor Park - Essendon
* 475 Moonee Ponds - Keilor East (via Essendon and Niddrie)

The Keilor East station is proposed on the new Airport Line. If this line goes ahead it will be placed on the Albion-Jacana freight line at Sunshine North, Keilor East, Airport West and Gowanbrae before it goes off and onto the Airport.

Large parts of the suburb are under the flight path of nearby Melbourne Airport which is curfew free

Education

Keilor East offers a public primary school, Keilor Heights Primary School, a private primary school, St. Peters School, a campus of the public secondary school Essendon Keilor College, and a campus of the private Uniting Church school Penleigh and Essendon Grammar School. Keilor East had many more schools in the 1980's and 1990's, such as Lincolnville Primary School, Keilor South Primary School and Overland Primary School. Lincolnville and Keilor South merged in 1988 to form Rosehill Park Primary School (on the former Keilor South Primary School site). At the end of 1993, Rosehill Park and Overland closed down, and Keilor Heights absorbed most of their students.

Notable people from East Keilor

* SiLi (rapper/producer) [ [http://www.myspace.com/siliproductions SiLi Productions] ]

Sporting Facilities

* East Keilor Cricket Club
* East Keilor Football Club
* East Keilor Leisure Centre [ [http://www.eastkeilor.ymca.org.au/ East Keilor Leisure Centre] ]

See also

* City of Keilor - the former local government area of which Keilor East was a part.

References