Thornbury is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria,
Australia, 7 km north of Melbourne's Central
Business District. Its local government area is the
City of Darebin. At the 2011 census, Thornbury had
a population of 17,434. Thornbury is bordered by
the Merri Creek to the west, and the Darebin
Creek to the east.
Thornbury consists mainly of warehouses and
scrap metal yards, with a few metal recycling
centres and factories.