With about 404 people per square kilometre, Park Orchards properties carry more of their own infrastructure than suburban ones do. Park Orchards is about 134 metres above sea level, with split-level homes common. Two levels usually means two ceiling spaces and two different cable strategies.
Park Orchards sits about 25 kilometres out in Manningham. Outdoor areas, sheds and workshops are the usual additions here. Because Park Orchards straddles Manningham and Maroondah, the address matters for records and nothing else here.
Work in Park Orchards slots in beside whatever we have on in Donvale, Nunawading or Ringwood North that day. Park Orchards is a suburb of about 9.5 square kilometres in Manningham, postcode 3114, with 3835 residents recorded in the 2021 census.
For what it is worth on the day: At the 2021 census, Park Orchards recorded a population of 3,835. The decade a suburb filled in tells us what to expect at the board. Park Orchards sits within a group of suburbs we are in constantly: Donvale, Nunawading, Ringwood North and Warrandyte.
We work out of Boronia, about 11.3 kilometres north-west from Park Orchards. No travel charge, no minimum call-out to justify the drive. One more piece of local background: == History ==
In 1902, prominent Victorian orchardist, Tom Petty, purchased 559 acres (226 ha) of land north of the Mitcham district and converted it to 80 orchard blocks.
Adding to that: In 1925, South Melbourne timber merchants, Australias Sharp and John Taylor, purchased Petty's land and launched the Park Orchards Country Club Estate.