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Keysborough is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 27 km south-east of Melbourne's central business district. Its local government area is the City of Greater Dandenong. In 2014, Keysborough had an estimated population of 22,800. Keysborough includes market gardens and semi-rural properties and is also a large residential/industrial suburb which started to grow in the 1960s and well into the 1990s. The Post Office opened on 27 November 1973 and was known as Noble Park South until 1978. Today, Keysborough facilitates several primary and secondary schools, including the Keysborough campus of Haileybury College and (Lighthouse Christian College ). Parkmore Shopping Centre includes a Coles, Woolworths, Kmart, Big W, Australia Post and an assortment of specialty stores. As of 2002 the southern corner of the suburb was under development and four new housing estates have been developed including The Keys, Hidden Grove, and Crystal Waters. A new housing estate, Somerfield, in southern Keysborough is currently under development. ==Population and Social Conditions== In 2014 Keysborough had an estimated population of approximately 22,800. This suburb features lower levels of migrant settlement and cultural diversity, higher levels of English proficiency, substantially greater incomes and lower rates of early school leaving, than Greater Dandenong. The 2011 Census found that 53% of Keysborough residents were born overseas, slightly lower than for Greater Dandenong (60%) though more than the corresponding metropolitan percentage (33%). Among the 93 birthplaces of its residents were Vietnam (accounting for 10%), Cambodia (7%), India (4%) and Sri Lanka (4%). Rates of migrant settlement are relatively low, with 3% of Keysborough residents having arrived in Australia within the previous 2.5 years – less than half the figure for Greater Dandenong, of 7%. Languages other than English are spoken by 59% of residents – compared with 64% for Greater Dandenong. Twelve per cent of Keysborough residents have limited fluency in the use of spoken English, less than the municipal level of 14% though three times the metropolitan level of 4%. Among the major religious faiths are Buddhism, adhered to by 22% of residents, Islam (6%) and Hinduism (3%). Nine per cent of young adults (20-24 years) had left school before completing year 11 – lower than the municipal average of 13% and the metropolitan level, of 10% Median individual gross incomes of $482 p.w. recorded in the Census, are the highest in Greater Dandenong and over four-fifths (81%) of metropolitan levels. Of the 6,130 homes in Keysborough, just 1.5% are flats, far lower than the proportion across Greater Dandenong of 21%, or the metropolitan level of 11%. Eighty-four per cent of homes in the suburb are owned or being purchased by their occupants – higher than the metropolitan level of 71%. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Keysborough, Victoria」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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