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Mernda

Mernda

Playground under the elevated line at Mernda, 26 August 2018
Playground under the elevated Mernda line, 26 August 2018. Photograph by Philip Mallis, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Mernda is a suburb in Melbourne’s north-east, in the City of Whittlesea. Mernda station is the end of the Mernda line, and the nearest station to Doreen. The photograph, taken on 26 August 2018, looks along the playground under the elevated line.

At the 2021 Census the Australian Bureau of Statistics counted 23,369 people usually living in Mernda. The median age was 33. The Victorian median on the same release was 38. There were 8,089 private dwellings, with 3 people per household on average. The Victorian figure was 2.5. The median weekly household income was $2,011.

2021 Census

People usually resident 23,369
Median age 33
Private dwellings 8,089
People per household 3
Median weekly household income $2,011

These figures are for the suburb, not for the City of Whittlesea.

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