Keilor East

Keilor East Post Office opened on 1 July 1947. This was renamed Niddrie in 1956, and a new Keilor East office opened in November 1957. Lincolnville Post Office on McFarlane Street opened in 1964 and closed in 1988.{{Citation | last = Premier Postal History | title = Post Office List | url = https://www.premierpostal.com/cgi-bin/wsProd.sh/Viewpocdwrapper.p?SortBy=VIC&country= | access-date = 21 July 2013 }}

Keilor East was previously located in the former City of Keilor, though now sits partially in the City of Brimbank (west of the Albion-Jacana railway line) and the remainder in the City of Moonee Valley (east of the Albion-Jacana railway line).

Keilor East contains the Milleara Shopping Centre (previously named and still commonly known as Milleara Mall), on the corner of Milleara Road and Buckley Street, as well as the small Centreway Shopping Centre and Dinah Parade shopping strip.

East Keilor is served by five bus routes:

• 406: to Footscray, operated by CDC Melbourne{{cite PTV route|406}}
• 407: Highpoint Shopping Centre – Avondale Heights, operated by CDC Melbourne{{cite PTV route|407}}
• 465: Essendon station – Keilor Park, operated by Ryan Brothers Bus Service{{cite PTV route|465}}
• 469: to Moonee Ponds Junction, operated by Kastoria Bus Lines{{cite PTV route|469}}
• SmartBus 903: Altona station – Mordialloc, operated by Kinetic Melbourne{{cite PTV route|903}}

Keilor East railway station is a proposed station on the proposed Melbourne Airport line.{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2022-09-21 |title=New station at Keilor East |url=https://bigbuild.vic.gov.au/projects/melbourne-airport-rail/designs/new-station-at-keilor-east |access-date=2022-09-21 |website=Victoria’s Big Build |language=en}} This line will run to Melbourne Airport, and will open in 2029. There will be approximately a 27-minute travel time to the Melbourne CBD, via Sunshine and the Metro Tunnel.{{Cite web |last=Build |first=Victoria’s Big |date=2022-09-21 |title=Melbourne Airport Rail overview |url=https://bigbuild.vic.gov.au/projects/melbourne-airport-rail/about/project-overview |access-date=2022-09-21 |website=Victoria’s Big Build |language=en}}

Large parts of the suburb are under the flight path of the nearby Melbourne Airport which is curfew-free.

Keilor East has a public primary school, Keilor Heights Primary School, St. Peters School, a private primary school, a campus of the public secondary school Essendon Keilor College, and the senior campus of the private Uniting Church school Penleigh and Essendon Grammar School.

Keilor East had many more schools in the 1980s and 1990s, such as Lincolnville Primary School, Keilor South Primary School and Overland Primary School. Lincolnville and Keilor South merged in 1988 to form Rosehill Park Primary School (on the former Keilor South Primary School site). At the end of 1993, Rosehill Park and Overland were forced to close down by the State Liberal Government of Jeff Kennett, with Keilor Heights absorbing most of their students.

• Shane Jacobson – of the movie Kenny and television shows Kenny's World and co-host of Top Gear Australia
• File:Milleara Rd Keilor East.jpgJohn Barbuto – founder of JB Hi-Fi
• Tina Arena – singer
• Damien Peverill – footballer
• Curtis Stone- chef

• East Keilor Football Club, an Australian Rules football team, competes in the Essendon District Football League.{{Citation | last = Full Points Footy | title = East Keilor | url = http://www.fullpointsfooty.net/east_keilor.htm | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070707163041/http://www.fullpointsfooty.net/east_keilor.htm | url-status = usurped | archive-date = 7 July 2007 | access-date =15 April 2009 }}
• East Keilor Cricket Club
• East Keilor Leisure Centre{{Cite web |url=http://www.eastkeilor.ymca.org.au/ |title=East Keilor Leisure Centre |access-date=14 August 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080725060808/http://www.eastkeilor.ymca.org.au/ |archive-date=25 July 2008 |url-status=dead }}
• East Keilor Tennis Club.

• City of Keilor – Keilor East was previously within this former local government area.

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Category:Suburbs of Melbourne

Category:Suburbs of the City of Moonee Valley

Category:Suburbs of the City of Brimbank