Around 1734 people per square kilometre, Mooroolbark blocks are big enough that detection outside the house is worth doing properly rather than not at all. Mooroolbark sits about 37 kilometres out in Yarra Ranges. Bigger floor plans mean interior detectors have to be placed for coverage rather than convenience.
In Yarra Ranges, which includes Mooroolbark, we configure the siren duration to the legal limit as a matter of course. Work in Mooroolbark slots in beside whatever we have on in Chirnside Park, Croydon or Croydon North that day.
Mooroolbark covers about 13.3 square kilometres of Yarra Ranges. The 2021 census put the population at 23059, and the postcode is 3138. Chirnside Park, Croydon, Croydon North and Kilsyth and Mooroolbark form one continuous area for us rather than a list of separate suburbs.
We are based in Boronia, about 8.9 kilometres north of Mooroolbark. Close enough that the person who quotes the job is the person who comes back to do it. With Mooroolbark railway station in the middle of it, Mooroolbark has the pattern you would expect: closer-built older stock near the line, newer subdivision further out.