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Melbourne is growing – that’s not breaking news. Back in 2023, it was revealed that Melbourne was on track to overtake the Sydney by 2031. Last year, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) revealed that Melbourne is currently the fastest growing city in the country, with Melbourne’s population growing by 142,600 people from 2023-2024.
So, where are all of these fresh new Melburnians going to live? For around 47,000 of them, we know the answer. The Victorian Government has approved construction of a whole new suburb in the city’s growing outer north – complete with thousands of new homes, eight schools and a whole lot of dedicated green spaces for residents to explore.
Melbourne’s new suburb – Beveridge North West – is due to take shape over the next ten years, with Minister for Planning Sonya Kilkenny approving a plan featuring 15,000 new homes, four town centres, eight schools and 79 hectares worth of parks and reserves (that's 13 times the MCG). Once complete, the suburb will provide homes for more than 47,000 Victorians and support an estimated 3,000 local jobs."
Editorial note - For MCG-measurement tragics, you'll be familiar with a continuing discussion about how many 'jobs' and MCG is. It has recently been ruled that the MCG as a measure of permanent staff is around 150, and as a measure of temporary or surge staff of 1,000. So in this case, we can say the suburb will provide 2.6 MCGs of local jobs.
This is a rare triple, as we can also employ the MCG to measure the capacity of the suburb. 47,000 residents at 10,024 people per MCG brings us to 4.669 MCGs of residential capacity.
The new suburb will be home to 15,000 new homes, four town centres, eight schools and a whole lot of green public space.















