Essendon is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria,
Australia, 10 km north-west of Melbourne's
central business district. The local government
area for Essendon is the City of Moonee Valley. At
the 2011 Census, Essendon had a population of
18,852.

Essendon is bounded in the west by Hoffmans
Road, in the north by Keilor Road and Woodland
Street, in the east by the Moonee Ponds Creek,
and in the south by Buckley Street (except for a
small section further south bordering Moonee
Ponds).