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Essendon Fields
Essendon Fields is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, north-west of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Moonee Valley local government area. Essendon Fields comprises the Essendon Fields Airport and surrounding commercial areas. As it is located on federally leased Airport land, residential development is not permitted. Essendon Fields recorded no population at the 2021 census. The suburb was formally gazetted on 14 August 2008 under the Geographic Place Names Act. Essendon Fields is a privately managed, major employment centre for Melbourne, and manages more than 300,000 square metres of commercial property across aviation, retail, automotive dealerships, offices and industrial uses. It is part of the 305 hectare Essendon Fields Airport site that also incorporates Essendon Fields Automotive, a collection of new vehicle showrooms that is the biggest single site for car dealerships in the Southern Hemisphere. In 2025 more than 21,000 cars were sold from the site for the fourth consecutive year, worth an estimated $1 billion AUD. The Hart Precinct in the Northeast of Essendon Fields is zoned for aviation and light industrial uses.…
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Essendon Fields is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, north-west of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Moonee Valley local government area. Essendon Fields comprises the Essendon Fields Airport and surrounding commercial areas. As it is located on federally leased Airport land, residential development is not permitted. Essendon Fields recorded no population at the 2021 census. The suburb was formally gazetted on 14 August 2008 under the Geographic Place Names Act. Essendon Fields is a privately managed, major employment centre for Melbourne, and manages more than 300,000 square metres of commercial property across aviation, retail, automotive dealerships, offices and industrial uses. It is part of the 305 hectare Essendon Fields Airport site that also incorporates Essendon Fields Automotive, a collection of new vehicle showrooms that is the biggest single site for car dealerships in the Southern Hemisphere. In 2025 more than 21,000 cars were sold from the site for the fourth consecutive year, worth an estimated $1 billion AUD. The Hart Precinct in the Northeast of Essendon Fields is zoned for aviation and light industrial uses.…
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