Greenvale, Victoria

Greenvale is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 20 km (12 mi) north of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Hume local government area. Greenvale recorded a population of 21,274 at the 2021 census.

Greenvale is located between Yuroke and Attwood, on Mickleham Road.

Greenvale gets it name from a farm named "Greenvale", owned by local farmer John McKerchar. It was located in the parish of Yuroke, from which the area first took its name.

Greenvale Post Office originally opened in a rural area on 1 January 1871 and closed in 1969. As the suburb developed the post office reopened in 1996.

Although subdivisions began in 1972, Greenvale expanded largely in the 1980s and now has two shopping centres, three primary schools, a community centre and two kindergartens. Greenvale has a privately owned school called Aitken College. Greenvale Reservoir in the north was built in 1973.

Greenvale Sanatorium was built in 1905, consisting of weatherboard buildings and quarantine huts, primarily for patients in reduced circumstances, and was appropriately isolated from the general public by the Victorian Government under the administration of the Health Department for the treatment of tuberculosis and other diseases.^{[citation needed]}

A two-storey brick hospital, named the Percy Everett Building, was added to the site in 1940, with the original weatherboard buildings and huts demolished in 1973. In 1956, due to tuberculosis facilities becoming redundant thanks to effective treatments, the site became an aged care facility. Its doors finally closed in 1998, and the land it stood on was sold in 2004 to form part of Woodlands Historic Park. The building was fully demolished by the end of 2006.

Greenvale's primary schools (Prep-6) include: