Present Day
Sharps Road, which runs east-west near the southern border of Tullamarine, was until the late 1980s a single carriageway road. On its southern side was a line of tall pine trees hiding a small pony club. Today, Sharps Road is a bustling dual-carriageway road providing an alternative route from the Western Ring Road to Melbourne Airport.
In 1987 the median house price in Tullamarine was 97% of the median for metropolitan Melbourne, and in 1996 it was 82% of the metropolitan median.
Tullamarine had census populations of 82 (1891), 190 (1921) and 204 (1947). Later population estimates were 385 (1955) and 1,666 (1966). The current population of Tullamarine is 8,758 as at September 2005.
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