Located about 13 kilometres east of the CBD, Box Hill has become a lot more accessible since the Whitehorse Road tram extended to the Box Hill Central railway station.

Blackburn is an understated eastern suburb about 15 kilometres east of the CBD, and just east of more exclusive suburbs Surrey Hills, Mont Albert and Box Hill.

Black Rock is a bayside suburb about 20 kilometres south-east of, and one of the only south-eastern bayside suburbs where the streets inland from the beach, fetch more than those on Beach Road.

The township of Berwick has undergone monstrous change over the last 20 years, and for a period was the fastest growing municipality in Victoria, and one of the fastest in Australia.