Essendon Fields
Traffic Intelligence Profile

SCATS-based vehicle movement profile generated from the Melbourne SCATS Intelligence Platform. Historical signalised-intersection movement analysis covering 2014–2026.

Generated: 20 May 2026

Suburb rank: #488

SCATS sites: 1

Postcode(s): 3041

I’m your local mate with a few trailers right next to The West Gate Freeway!

Suburb Map

This map provides geographic context for the suburb profile and the surrounding road network. For individual SCATS sensor locations, use the map links in the Top SCATS Sites and Sensor Inventory tables.

Essendon Fields suburb map
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Executive Snapshot

Essendon Fields contains 1 mapped SCATS traffic sites in this suburb-level profile. Across the historical dataset, these sites account for 22,532,646 vehicle movements, or approximately 22.5M.

The busiest mapped SCATS location in Essendon Fields is English Street / Larkin Street, with 22,532,646 recorded movements across the historical period.

22.5MTotal mapped vehicle movements

1Mapped SCATS sites

#488Melbourne suburb movement rank

22,532,646Average movements per site

Interpretation: This profile should be read as a suburb-level movement exposure report based on mapped SCATS sensor locations. It is useful for local traffic reporting, OOH exposure review, planning discussion, business-location context and public-interest transport analysis.

Top SCATS Sites in Essendon Fields

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#	SCATS ID	Location	Total movements	Millions	Rank	Map
1	1474	English Street / Larkin Street English Street / Larkin Street	22,532,646	22.5M	4134	Map

Note: SCATS locations are assigned to suburbs using the latitude/longitude of each site. Boundary roads may influence nearby suburbs even when assigned to one suburb for repeatable reporting.

SCATS Sensor Map

This map shows the location of each mapped SCATS sensor associated with Essendon Fields. Circle colours match the main full-network SCATS map. Click any circle to view the site name, movement total and a direct Google Maps link.

Interactive SCATS Sensor Map

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Traffic intensity circles

Red — Top 5% busiest Melbourne-wide

Orange — Top 20% busiest Melbourne-wide

Yellow — Middle-volume Melbourne-wide

Green — Lower-volume mapped site

Circle colours are based on each SCATS site's Melbourne-wide rank across the cleaned archive, not just its rank within this suburb. Circle size is scaled lightly by traffic intensity.

Provider: Google Maps circle overlays · Sensors plotted: 1. For PDF export, you will usually get a better result by replacing this live map with a static PNG screenshot.

Mapped SCATS sensors

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1474 — English Street / Larkin Street
English Street / Larkin Street
Lower-volume mapped site · Melbourne rank #4134
-37.725737, 144.893462
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Local Movement Context

Busiest Local Site

English Street / Larkin Street
22,532,646 vehicle movements
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Suburb Rank

Essendon Fields ranks #488 among mapped Melbourne suburbs/localities by total SCATS movement volume in this generated suburb summary.

Likely Dominant Corridors

English
Larkin

OOH and media relevance: Suburbs with concentrated SCATS movement corridors can be useful for billboard exposure review, local traffic journalism, corridor analysis and business-location intelligence.

SCATS Sensor Inventory

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SCATS ID	Friendly name	Official name	Total movements	Postcode	Map
1474	English Street / Larkin Street	English Street / Larkin Street	22,532,646	3041	Open

Methodology and Platform Context

This suburb profile is one local report generated from the wider Melbourne SCATS Intelligence platform. The platform converts more than 12 years of Melbourne traffic signal data into a public-facing transport intelligence layer covering historical movement totals, site rankings, corridor behaviour, suburb profiles, OOH exposure review, and reproducible data-quality evidence.

37,877,000,000Cleaned 15-minute SCATS observations

539,021,000,000Total cleaned vehicle movements analysed platform-wide

148/148Expected months processed in the reporting window

2014–2026Historical coverage window

How to read this suburb report: the suburb total shown earlier in this profile is this suburb’s portion of the mapped SCATS movement layer. The Melbourne-wide figures above describe the scale of the full platform, not this suburb alone. The suburb profile layer turns the city-wide dataset into 517 suburb/locality reports using 4,427 mapped SCATS sites.

Input suburb summary: suburb_summary_v1.json
Input site lookup: scats_site_suburb_lookup_cleaned_v1_4.csv
Suburb/locality profiles generated: 517
Mapped SCATS sites used in the suburb reporting layer: 4,427
Movement total represented by the mapped suburb profile layer: 532,181,076,069 movements
Time resolution: 15-minute intervals

Boundary caution: Some SCATS sensors sit on arterial roads, freeway interfaces or suburb boundaries. For repeatable reporting, each sensor is assigned to one suburb based on its coordinate. This makes the profiles reproducible, but nearby suburbs may still be affected by the same corridor.

Open-source project: https://github.com/clarketowson/melbourne-scats-intelligence

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