Brookfield is a suburb in
Melbourne
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Victoria,
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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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. Brookfield recorded a population of 10,782 at the
2021 census.
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Brookfield was first established as ''Brookfield Estates'' by Oliver Hume Real Estate in the early 1980s to 1990s during the Melton area's rapid expansion. Since then, it has also expanded into the new estates of ''Madison Gardens'', ''Botanica Springs'' and ''Silverdale''.
]
References
Suburbs of Melbourne
Suburbs of the City of Melton
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