Clarinda is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 17 km south-east from Melbourne’s central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Kingston. At the 2006 Census, Clarinda had a population of 7,652.
Clarinda is a residential suburb in south-eastern Melbourne which was developed primarily in the 1970s and 1980s. It has a large ethnic population, as evidenced by the high proportion of persons born in non-English speaking countries. Household sizes are larger than average (2.9 persons), and one in seven households are occupied by five or more persons.
The area was once coastal heathland and first occupied by John O’Shannessy during the early 1840s, who took a squatting licence to encompass a block, around suburbs known today as Clarinda, Clayton South, Dingley and Heatherton. O???Shannessy later passed on his licence to John and Richard King, in 1846, which saw the transformation of the area.
Clarinda Post Office opened on 13 September 1911 and closed in 1971. When the suburb was developed it reopened in 1984.
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