Bangholme is a suburb in
Melbourne
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,
Victoria
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,
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, south-east of Melbourne's
Central Business District
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, located within the
City of Greater Dandenong
The City of Greater Dandenong is a local government area in Victoria, Australia in the southeastern suburbs of Melbourne. It has an area of just under 130 square kilometres (50 sq mi) and 166,094 residents in 2018. 29% of its land area forms par ...
local government area
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. Bangholme recorded a population of 749 at the .
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Located adjacent to the urban area, the area is semi-rural and is part of Melbourne's South East Green Wedge, with a significant part of the land used by the ]Melbourne Water
Melbourne Water is a Victorian Government-owned statutory authority that controls and manages much of the water bodies and supplies in metropolitan Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, including the reservoirs, lakes, wetlands, canals and urban cree ...
Eastern Sewage Treatment Plant, and the remainder being mostly small land holdings, with some used for horse acreage.
The EastLink tollway passes through the area.
Willow Lodge Village
a mobile home development, is located on Frankston-Dandenong Road.
History
Bangholme Post Office opened on 15 June 1925, and closed in 1943.
Demographics
Bangholme has a SEIFA
Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (commonly known by its acronym, SEIFA) is a product that enables the assessment of the welfare of Australian communities. The indexes have been created by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the national statisti ...
score of 744, indicating a high level of disadvantage — it is in the bottom percentile nationally and has the lowest score of any Melbourne suburb.
Sport
The National Water Sports Centre is located in Bangholme adjacent to the Patterson River
The Patterson River is a partly man-made urban river of the Port Phillip catchment in the Australian east coast state of Victoria, located in the outer southeastern suburbs of the Greater Melbourne region. Under the name "Patterson", it is ...
. Originally the watersports centre was created for the 1996 Melbourne Olympics, which was lost to Atlanta.
See also
* City of Springvale
The City of Springvale was a Local government in Australia, local government area about southeast of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia. The city covered an area of , and existed from 1857 until 1994.
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– Bangholme was previously within this former local government area.
References
External links
Australian Places - Bangholme
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Suburbs of the City of Greater Dandenong