Heatherton is a suburb in
Melbourne
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,
Victoria,
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, 19 km south-east of Melbourne's
Central Business District
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, located within the
City of Kingston
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local government area
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. Heatherton recorded a population of 2,826 at the .
The suburb has a low population for a metropolitan suburb. It is predominantly open space:
market garden
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, golf courses (the
Kingston Heath Golf Club and the Capital Golf Club) and the large
Karkarook Park.
History
As part of the
Melbourne Sandbelt, the area has been subject to significant
sand mining in the past, though many extraction sites have now passed to other uses. Heatherton Post Office opened on 6 May 1885, but closed in 1973.
Today
The Kingston Centre, a major regional Aged Care and Rehabilitation facility, is located on
Warrigal Road. The site was originally the Melbourne Benevolent Asylum (where construction began in 1909). A
narrow gauge
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Since narrow-gauge railways are usually built with Minimum railw ...
tramway was constructed from the railway at
Cheltenham
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to the building site. A large proportion of the grounds of the Kingston Centre were sold in the 1990s to the developer
Mirvac, who built the 500 homes of the Heath estate between 2000 and 2009.
Population
In the 2016 Census, there were 2,907 people in Heatherton. 56.8% of people were born in Australia. The next most common countries of birth were China 5.0% and England 3.5%. 63.3% of people spoke only English at home. Other languages spoken at home included Mandarin at 4.9%. The most common responses for religion were No Religion 31.7% and Catholic 23.2%.
Sport
The suburb has an
Australian Rules
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football team competing in the
Southern Football League
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.
The Heatherton Football Club ("The Tunners") was formed in 1913
Heatherton Football Club History
. Retrieved 16 February 2009 and currently play at the Heatherton Recreation Reserve on Ross Street.
Golfers play at the course of the Kingston Heath Golf Club on Kingston Road
See also
* City of Moorabbin
The City of Moorabbin was a local government area about southeast of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. The city covered an area of , and existed from 1862 until 1994.
History
Moorabbin was first incorporated as a road dis ...
– Heatherton was previously within this former local government area.
References
{{City of Kingston suburbs
Suburbs of Melbourne
Suburbs of the City of Kingston (Victoria)