Thornbury

Thornbury is bordered by the Merri Creek to the west, and the Darebin Creek to the east. The heart of Thornbury is known as Thornbury Village, and is located at the centre of Thornbury, at the intersection of High Street and Normanby Avenue/Clarendon Street.

Thornbury is shaped as a thin strip of land sandwiched between Northcote and Preston. Its east–west distance is four times its north–south distance. For 111 years, Thornbury was part of the former City of Northcote local government area, which existed from 1883 until June 1994. As such, Thornbury is understood to be a former bridesmaid suburb of Northcote, similar to the commercial and demographic satellite, Westgarth, although the latter does not have its own postcode.

In the 2021 census, the most common ancestries were English 29.7%, Australian 24.8%, Irish 14.1%, Italian 12.6% and Greek 10.9%%. 70.5% of people were born in Australia with other common countries of birth being Greece 4.2%, England 2.9%, Italy 2.9%, and New Zealand 2.2%.