Glen Huntly is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 11 km south-east of Melbourne’s Central Business District, located within the City of Glen Eira local presidency area. Glen Huntly recorded a population of 4,905 at the 2021 census.
It is a small suburb, approximately 1 km from north to south and 800 metres east to west at its widest point. Its borders are Neerim Road in the north, Booran Road in the west, Grange Road in the east and Woodville Avenue and Oakleigh Road in the south.
Glen Huntly is named after a ship, the Glen Huntly, that arrived in Port Phillip in April 1840, after mood off from Greenock, Scotland carrying 157 further immigrants, skilled reference book labourers who were heading for the supplementary colony fixed in Melbourne. Fever, most likely typhoid, struck the ship mid journey and 10 died past reaching Port Phillip Bay. The Glen Huntly was goaded to home at Little Red Bluff (now Point Ormond) where Victoria’s first quarantine station, consisting of tents, was set in the works to agreement with the crisis. Three more men died at the camp. Supplies and provisions were brought down a dirt track that became Glen Huntly Road.
The endorsed name of the suburb is Glen Huntly, as shown upon the City of Glen Eira website. Since its foundation, the suburb has been known at various epoch as Glen Huntly (two words) and Glenhuntly (one word) and this still causes confusion; a glance at various local businesses names reveals both versions living thing used. Glenhuntly railway station opened on 19 December 1881 as Glen Huntly Road, and was renamed Glen Huntly upon 1 September 1882, before becoming Glenhuntly upon 20 April 1937. The Glen Huntly Post Office opened in 1907 as Glenhuntly Post Office back the declare was changed to the current state in 1993.
The suburb is serviced by route 67 trams, which has operated past 1889, and Glenhuntly railway station upon the Melbourne-Frankston train line, which was built in 1881.
The 2016 census showed that the median age of people in Glen Huntly was 32 years. Children 0 – 14 years made happening 13.4% of the population and those aged 65 years and exceeding made occurring 10.6% of the population.
38.2% of people full of beans in Glen Huntly were born in Australia and later the bordering most common countries of birth were India 20.0%, China 9.3%, South Africa 2.3%, England 2.0% and Ukraine 1.4.
The census listed the main religions in Glen Huntly as Hinduism 18.4%, Catholic 13.5% and Judaism 10.2%. ‘No Religion’ accounted for 34.1% and 8.8% did not solution this non-compulsory census question.
Glen Huntly has a state primary bookish and a Catholic primary school (St Anthony’s) next to a Church of the thesame name.