page_title: Bacchus Marsh
section_title: Urban structure
hierarchical_section_title: Bacchus Marsh / Urban structure
caption_attribution_description: English: en:Bacchus Marsh, Victoria seen from Bacchus Hill winery
context_page_description: Bacchus Marsh is an urban centre and suburban locality in Victoria, Australia located approximately 50 kilometres north west of the state capital Melbourne and 14 kilometres west of Melton at a near equidistance to the major cities of Melbourne, Ballarat and Geelong. The population of the Bacchus Marsh urban area was 22,223 at June 2018. Bacchus Marsh is the largest urban area in the local government area of Shire of Moorabool.
  Traditionally a market garden area, producing a large amount of the region's fruits and vegetables in recent decades it has transformed into the main commuter town on the Melbourne-Ballarat corridor.
  It was named after one of its original inhabitants, Captain William Henry Bacchus, who saw the great value of this locality as it was situated on two rivers — the Lerderderg and Werribee.
context_section_description: At June 2018, Bacchus Marsh had a population of 22,223.
  According to the 2016 census of Population, the Bacchus Marsh Significant Urban Area recorded the following highlights:
  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people made up 1.3% of the population.
  81.1% of people were born in Australia. The next most common countries of birth were England 3.5%, New Zealand 1.4%, India 0.8%, Scotland 0.6% and Germany 0.5%.
  88.2% of people spoke only English at home. Other languages spoken at home included Italian 0.5% and Punjabi 0.5%.
  The most common responses for religion were No Religion 35.7%, Catholic 28.0% and Anglican 11.9%.
  It covers a large area in the Werribee Valley with its Central Business District centred along Main Street between Bennett Street to the north, Grant Street/Gisborne Road to the west, Young/Lord Streets to the east and Waddell/Simpson Streets to the south. Bacchus Marsh Village shopping centre is its main indoor shopping mall. The state suburb by the same name is home to 6,394 people and contains the central business district. The population of the urban area of Bacchus Marsh has grown by 34.6% over the decade leading to 2016.
  Beyond central Bacchus Marsh, suburban areas such as the former towns of Darley (1861) to the north and Maddingley to the south continue to grow rapidly. Housing development has also occurred in the natural extension of Bacchus Marsh like Underbank, and its surrounding areas including Parwan, Hopetoun Park and Merrimu.
caption: The urban area as viewed from its rural-urban fringe.
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