The local Yalukit people were coastal and dependent on seafoods, so few Aboriginal relics have been found in Caulfield.

Frederick Chapman (later Justice of the New Zealand Supreme Court) was able to recollect a corroboree which took place in Hotham Street, involving hundreds of Gippsland Aborigines.

It served as watering and pasture land for the pastoralists driving stock from Gippsland to Melbourne.

Camden Town was a working class area at the junction of Glen Huntly and Hawthorn Roads.

It served as a location for several grand mansions for wealthy Melbourne citizens over the following decades.

The most common countries of birth were South Africa 5.4%, China 3.3%, Israel 3.0%, Poland 2.8% and England 2.3%.

[4] Caulfield Park, which is nearby in Caulfield North, is a large (approximately 26 hectare) Victorian garden flanked by Hawthorn, Balaclava and Inkerman Roads and Park Crescent, which features a war memorial, a decorative lake and playing fields for various sports.