Parkville is a large neighbourhood in the north west of the municipality known for its leafy streets, heritage houses, vast parklands, and significant public institutions, including the University of Melbourne’s main bustling campus and residential colleges.

Parkville is home to an active community with two resident associations, local bulletin boards, and multiple social media member groups connecting residents, businesses, families, workers, students and visitors.

37 per cent of residents in Parkville were born overseas and 29 per cent speak a language other than English with the three most common being Mandarin, Cantonese and Spanish.

Many residents are also students attending University of Melbourne and RMIT and residing in student accommodation.

Parkville forms part of the ‘City North’ innovation precinct and is home to major hospitals, research and institutional facilities including the Royal Melbourne, Royal Women’s and Royal Children's hospitals, the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute and the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre.

Parkville plays a critical role in Australia’s innovation capability and is a powerhouse of research and development, specialising in bio-tech and neuroscience.

Parkville also forms part of Melbourne’s ‘International Education Gateway’, with the City North area accommodating over 40,000 international students in 2019.

Parkville was the site of the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games Village, now transformed into an integrated, socially inclusive community with a mix of private and social housing and aged care facilities, called ‘Parkville Gardens’.

In the north of Parkville are Orygen Youth Health, the Melbourne Youth Justice Centre and a light industrial and manufacturing area that forms part of the Melbourne Biomedical Precinct.

Royal Park, the municipality’s largest open space, is in Parkville, comprising a mix of recreational facilities, including one of Melbourne’s major tourist attractions, Melbourne Zoo.

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Quick facts

Data is sourced from 2021 Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Census of Population and Housing, ABS Estimated Resident Population 2023, and 2022 Census of Land and Employment (CLUE).

To access more data on Parkville, visit: Parkville community profile on profile .id.

To learn more about the ABS Census of Population and Housing, including definitions, visit: Guide to Census data.