About Keysborough
Keysborough is a suburb in Melbourne,
Victoria, Australia, 27 km south-east of
Melbourne's central business district. Its local
government area is the City of Greater
Dandenong. In 2014, Keysborough had an
estimated population of 22,800. Keysborough
includes market gardens and semi-rural
properties and is also a large
residential/industrial suburb which started to
grow in the 1960s and well into the 1990s.
Today, Keysborough facilitates several primary
and secondary schools, including the
Keysborough campus of Haileybury College
and Lighthouse Christian College. Parkmore
Shopping Centre includes a Coles, Woolworths,
Kmart, Big W, Australia Post and an assortment
of specialty stores. As of 2002 the southern
corner of the suburb was under development
and four new housing estates have been
developed including The Keys, Hidden Grove,
and Crystal Waters. A new housing estate,
Somerfield, in southern Keysborough is
currently under development.