Carlton is an inner city suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 2 km north from Melbourne’s central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Melbourne. At the 2006 Census, Carlton had a population of 12,050.
Its boundaries are roughly Elizabeth Street to the West, Princes Street to the North, Victoria Street to the south, and Nicholson Street to the East.
The suburb well known for its "Little Italy" precinct on Lygon Street, for its Victorian architecture and its European-style squares (University Square, Lincoln Square, Argyle Place and MacArthur Place) and the Carlton Gardens, the latter being the location of the Royal Exhibition Building, one of Australia’s few man-made sites with World Heritage status.
Carlton is thought to have been named after Carlton House, London.
Carlton is a small mixed-use suburb in Melbourne's inner north. The Lygon Street café and restaurant strip makes it a focal point for tourism to Melbourne, and it is also home to Victoria's only entry on the World Heritage List, the Royal Exhibition Buildings and Carlton Gardens. There are a large but declining number of public housing dwellings in the suburb, a product of the slum clearance projects of the late 1960s.
Carlton was founded in 1851 at the beginning of the Victorian Gold Rush. Carlton Post Office opened on 19 October 1865.
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