City Profile
Located in Melbourne’s northern growth corridor, just 15 kilometres from Melbourne’s city centre, Hume City is one Australia's fastest growing and most culturally diverse communities.
Spanning a total area of 504 square kilometres, the City is made up of two urban growth corridors; one around the established Sunbury township and the other extending north along the Hume Freeway comprising the established suburbs of Broadmeadows, Campbellfield, Tullamarine, and Gladstone Park in the south, the expanding areas of Roxburgh Park, Craigieburn and Greenvale in the middle, and the new growth areas of Mickleham and Kalkallo in the north.
The City’s two urban areas are separated by the Melbourne Airport, which occupies 10 percent of Hume City's total area, and extensive rural areas which includes the Bulla township. These rural areas also comprise significant natural and cultural heritage.
The City has significant employment area in and around the Melbourne Airport and within the norther growth corridor’s State Significant Industrial Precinct along the Hume Freeway. Commercial and industrial land is supported by a freight and logistics network that includes major road connections, Melbourne Airport (the largest air freight terminal in Australia) and interstate and inland rail connections to the port (via Somerton Freight Terminal and Beveridge Interstate Freight Terminal)
Our history
Situated on the traditional lands of the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people, including the region's first inhabitants, the Gunung-Willam- Balluk clan, Hume City boasts a rich history that stretches back over 40,000 years.
Hume City currently has 700 registered Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Places, including burial sites, scattered artifacts, earth and stone features, object collections, quarries and scar trees. Publicly known places include Holly Green Mound, Sunbury Rings and Sunbury Quarries.
Hamilton Hume and William Hovell explored the area in the 1820's and about 10 years later the first Europeans settled along the Maribyrnong River, Jacksons Creek and Deep Creek waterways. Today the area is home to some of Victoria’s most historic European landmarks, including Rupertswood Mansion and Emu Bottom Homestead in Sunbury, as well as the Maygar Barracks in Broadmeadows which served as a training base for our troops during World War I.
On 15 December 1994, Hume City Council was created from the local government amalgamations and included the (former) Shire of Bulla, most of the (former) City of Broadmeadows, land along the Merri Creek in the City of Whittlesea, and the north-east section of the (former) City of Keilor.