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Bangholme is a locality in the
City of Greater Dandenong The City of Greater Dandenong is a local government area in Victoria, Australia in the southeastern suburbs of Melbourne. It has an area of just under 130 square kilometres (50 sq mi) and 166,094 residents in 2018. 29% of its land area forms par ...
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, south-east of Melbourne's
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. Bangholme recorded a population of 749 at the . Located adjacent to the urban area, the area is semi-rural and is part of Melbourne's South East Green Wedge, with a significant part of the land used by the
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Eastern Sewage Treatment Plant, and the remainder being mostly small land holdings, with some used for horse acreage. The EastLink tollway passes through the area.
Willow Lodge Village
a mobile home development, is located on Frankston-Dandenong Road.


History

Bangholme Post Office opened on 15 June 1925, and closed in 1943.


Demographics

Bangholme has a
SEIFA Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (commonly known by its acronym, SEIFA) is a product that summarizes the relative socio-economic characteristics of Australian communities. The indexes have been created by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the ...
score of 744, indicating a high level of disadvantage — it is in the bottom percentile nationally and has the lowest score of any Melbourne suburb.


Sport

The National Water Sports Centre is located in Bangholme adjacent to the
Patterson River The Patterson River is a partly man-made, tidal river urban river of the Port Phillip catchment in the Australian east coast state of Victoria, located in the outer southeastern suburbs of the Greater Melbourne region. Under the name "Patters ...
. Originally the watersports centre was created for the 1996 Melbourne Olympics, which was lost to Atlanta. Since then the Watersports centre has had no major updates besides the water park that operates on the same land. Golfers play at the course of the Eastern Sward Golf Club on Thompson Road, Bangholme. Horse riding lessons are conducted at BlinkBonnie Equestrian Centre on Pillars Road. Horse agistment (paddocks for hire) is also available at various properties on and near Pillars Road.


See also

*
City of Springvale The City of Springvale was a Local government in Australia, local government area about southeast of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia. The city covered an area of , and existed from 1857 until 1994. H ...
– Bangholme was previously within this former local government area.


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Australian Places - Bangholme
{{authority control Suburbs of the City of Greater Dandenong