David Wirrpanda – an Australian rules football player for the West Coast.
Joy Murphy Wandin – a Wurundjeri elder.
James Wandin (1933–2006) – a Wurundjeri ngurungaeta and Australian Rules footballer with St Kilda.
Kelvin Moore – an Australian rules football player for the Richmond Football Club.
Gordon Collis – an Australian rules football player for Carlton Football Club Brownlow Medalist in 1964.
Edith Coleman – naturalist and nature writer completed her pioneering studies of pseudocopulation on native orchids from her house 'Goongarrie' in Healesville.
William Barak – a noted Aboriginal artist and Wurundjeri elder who spent much of his life at Coranderrk Station, near Healesville.
Healesville has a soccer team known as Healesville Soccer Club that plays in the Victorian State League 4 East. Golfers play at the course of the RACV Country Club on Yarra Glen Road. The Healesville Greyhound Racing Club also holds regular greyhound racing meetings at the Healesville Showgrounds and Sporting Complex on Don Road. Healesville has a picnic horse racing club, Healesville Amateur Racing, which holds around seven race meetings a year with the Healesville Cup meeting in January. Healesville has a tennis club, the Healesville Tennis Club, which competes in the Eastern Region Tennis junior and senior competitions. The town has an Australian rules football team, the Healesville Football Club, competing in the Yarra Valley Mountain District Football League.
The most common responses for religion were No Religion 44.4%, Catholic 16.3% and Anglican 12.2%.
89.5% of people spoke only English at home.
The next most common countries of birth were England 5.6% and New Zealand 1.7%.
77.5% of people were born in Australia.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people made up 3.7% of the population.
The northern end of the trail is at Cooktown, Queensland, a town 328 kilometres (204 mi) north of Cairns.Īt the time of the 2016 census, there were 7,461 people in Healesville. Healesville is the southern terminus of the Bicentennial Heritage Trail, which, at 5,330 km (3,310 mi), is the longest trail of its type in the world. The Healesville Fire Brigade now operates a main and a satellite station with members from both the Healesville and Chum Creek areas. The amalgamation of the Chum Creek Rural Fire Brigade with the Healesville brigade occurred in 1996. The Healesville Rural Fire Brigade was formed in 1941, and disbanded and membership amalgamated with the Healesville Urban Fire Brigade in 1985. Healesville has an active CFA ( Country Fire Authority) volunteer fire brigade established in 1894. Industries in and around Healesville include sawmilling, horticulture, tourism and viticulture. An Aboriginal reserve known as Coranderrk, set up in 1863, was located just south of the main township. Much of what is now Healesville lies on the ancestral land of the Wurundjeri people. Schools in Healesville include the Healesville Primary School, St Brigid's Catholic primary school, the rural Chum Creek Primary School, Badger Creek Primary School, Healesville High School and Worawa Aboriginal College, an Aboriginal school whose former students include noted Australian Rules Footballer David Wirrpanda. The Yarra Valley Railway operates from Healesville Station on every Sunday, most public holidays and Wednesday to Sunday during school holidays. Healesville is well known for the Healesville Sanctuary, a nature park with hundreds of native Australian animals displayed in a semi-open natural setting and an active platypus breeding program. Healesville is situated on the Watts River, a tributary of the Yarra River. At the 2016 Census, Healesville had a population of 7,461. Its local government area is the Shire of Yarra Ranges. Healesville is a town in Victoria, Australia, 52 km north-east from Melbourne's central business district.
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