City of Monash Profile
The City of Monash is one of Melbourne's most populous municipalities, with over 164,000 residents.
Monash is located 20km southeast of the CBD and contains all or part of the suburbs of Wheelers Hill, Mulgrave, Glen Waverley, Mount Waverley, Chadstone, Ashwood, Burwood, Huntingdale, Notting Hill, Clayton, Oakleigh, Oakleigh South, Hughesdale, and Oakleigh East. It has some of Melbourne's best known landmarks within its 82 square kilometres, including the Monash Medical Centre, Monash University, the Victoria Police Academy and Jells Park.
Monash has developed a reputation as a 'high tech' centre for industry with a number of major companies based in the area, including Robert Bosch, NEC, Philips, Adidas, BMW, Nestle Ice Cream and Toyota. Monash is continuing to experience significant commercial development and this will further strengthen its position as the centre for economic activity in Melbourne's South East. Monash is an employment hub for residents in the municipality and Melbourne's South East Region with approximately 12,000 business establishments in the City providing around 90,000 jobs. This represents over 17% of the jobs in Melbourne's South East Region and about 6% of jobs in the entire metropolitan area. In fact, Monash's share of jobs is the highest of the 11 municipalities in the South East Region. The City also has a highly skilled and well educated workforce with 20% of residents having a degree or higher education.
The changing demographics show that there is a slowing of population growth with the City's population shifting to an older profile.
Monash is also a multicultural city with over 40% of its residents being born overseas. This is substantially higher than the Melbourne Statistical Division figure of 29% of its residents being born overseas.
City of Monash residents also enjoy a level of home ownership of 44%, which is considerably higher than the Melbourne Statistical Division at 33%.
In areas of Monash, infrastructure is ageing and demographic and socio-economic changes are evident. Revitalising commercial, residential, industrial and neighbourhood hubs and activity centres in an integrated way is critical in order to enhance the social, economic and environmental amenity for future generations.
Published: 22 November 2007
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