Burnside is a suburb in
Melbourne
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Victoria
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Australia
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, west of Melbourne's
central business district
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, located within the
City of Melton
The City of Melton is a local government area in Victoria, Australia, on Melbourne's western rural–urban fringe.
It covers , and as of the , Melton had a population of 178,960.
It is governed by the Melton City Council. The seat of local ...
local government area
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. Burnside recorded a population of 5,800 at the
2021 census.
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Attractions
* Burnside Hub
* Kororoit Creek
The Kororoit Creek is a watercourse of the Port Phillip catchment, rising in the outer north western suburbs of Melbourne, in the Australian state of Victoria.
Location and features
The Kororoit Creek rises below Mount Kororoit, northeast of ...
Burnside is located beside the upper end of the Kororoit Creek, which still has populations of native reptiles, including Tiger snake
The tiger snake (''Notechis scutatus'') is a large and highly venomous snake of southern Australia, including its coastal islands and Tasmania. These snakes are often observed and locally well known by their banding, black and yellow like a ti ...
, Eastern blue-tongued lizard
The ''Tiliqua scincoides scincoides,'' or eastern blue-tongued lizard, is native to Australia. Its blue tongue can be used to warn off predators. In addition to flashing its blue tongue, the skink hisses and puffs up its chest to assert dominance ...
, common snakeneck turtle and Eastern brown snake
The eastern brown snake (''Pseudonaja textilis''), often referred to as the common brown snake, is a species of extremely venomous snake in the family Elapidae. The species is native to eastern and central Australia and southern New Guinea. It w ...
.
Kororoit Creek is also home to the Eastern Banjo Frog
''Limnodynastes dumerilii'' is a frog species from the family Limnodynastidae. The informal names for the species and its subspecies include eastern or southern banjo frog, and bull frog.Waite, Edgar R. (1929): ''The reptiles and amphibians of ...
, common eastern froglet
The common eastern froglet (''Crinia signifera'') is a very common, Australian ground-dwelling frog, of the family Myobatrachidae. They are also referred to as 'gunggung' by the Dharug people of the Sydney basin.
Distribution
The common easter ...
and the endangered Growling grass frog
The growling grass frog (''Ranoidea raniformis''), also commonly known as the southern bell frog, warty swamp frog and erroneously as the green frog, is a species of ground-dwelling tree frog native to southeastern Australia, ranging from sout ...
and striped legless lizard.
Demographics
The most common Ancestries were Australian 14%, English 11.8%, Filipino 9.6%, Vietnamese 7.9%, and Maltese 6.8%.
41.2 of people only spoke English at home. Other languages spoken at home included Vietnamese 7.3%, Tagalog 3.9%, Spanish 2.7%, Arabic 2.4% and Filipino 2.3%.
See also
* Kororoit Creek Trail
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The Kororoit Creek Trail is a shared use path for cyclists and pedestrians, which follows the Kororoit Creek in the inner western suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
The interrupted upper section is located in Burnside and ...
References
Suburbs of Melbourne
Suburbs of the City of Melton
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