Mickleham is a suburb of
Melbourne
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,
Victoria,
Australia, 29 km (18 mi) north of Melbourne's
central business district
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, located within the
City of Hume
The City of Hume is a local government area located within the metropolitan area of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It includes the outer north-western suburbs and a number of rural localities between 13 and 40 kilometres from the Melbourne ...
local government area and beyond the Urban Growth Boundary. Mickleham recorded a population of 17,452 at the
2021 census,
[ compared to 3,142 at the 2016 census.]Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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as Australia's fastest-growing suburb.Yuroke
Yuroke is a bounded rural locality in Victoria, Australia, north-west of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Hume
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, on Mickleham Road.
History
Mickleham Post Office opened on 1 February 1862 and closed in 1967. To the west of the locality a Konagaderrer office opened in 1913 as settlement took place along Deep Creek but closed in 1920. This area is now known as Konagaderra Springs.
Today
Currently there are 7 estates under development in Mickleham with plans of housing, schools, child care, huge city centre and a business park on Donnybrook Road between Mickleham Road and Hume Fwy. These estates are
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Mickleham has a primary school
A primary school (in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Australia, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, and South Africa), junior school (in Australia), elementary school or grade school (in North America and the Philippines) is a school for primary ed ...
which is located at the corner of Mickleham Road and Mount Ridley Road. Next to the primary school is the community centre and tennis courts.
Mickleham also has a P-12 grammar school
A grammar school is one of several different types of school in the history of education in the United Kingdom and other English-speaking countries, originally a school teaching Latin, but more recently an academically oriented secondary school, ...
on Mount Ridley Road named Hume Anglican Grammar School. It is co-educational and features two basketball
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/tennis
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courts, a soccer pitch and an Australian rules football ground.
Mickleham also has an Islamic school named Darul Ulum Academy, that will be open for primary level education in 2022 and secondary level education in the future. It is a campus of the biggest Islamic school in Victoria, the Darul Ulum College of Victor
The town also hosts ''Mickleham Post Entry Quarantine Facility'', the quarantine
A quarantine is a restriction on the movement of people, animals and goods which is intended to prevent the spread of disease or pests. It is often used in connection to disease and illness, preventing the movement of those who may have been ...
facility for all animals and plants entering the country, which must be placed in quarantine according to Australian quarantine regulations.Hume Freeway
Hume Highway, inclusive of the sections now known as Hume Freeway and Hume Motorway, is one of Australia's major inter-city national highways, running for between Melbourne in the southwest and Sydney in the northeast. Upgrading of the route ...
.
Gallery
Image:MicklehamWarMemorial.JPG, War memorial.
Image:MicklehamPrimarySchool.JPG, Bluestone building at the primary school.
See also
* Hume City Council - The current council for Mickleham.
* Shire of Bulla – Mickleham was previously within this former local government area.
References
External links
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Towns in Victoria (Australia)
Suburbs of the City of Hume