Mount Helen is a fast-growing southern suburb of Ballarat situated just north of the town of Buninyong in Victoria, Australia on the Canadian Creek.

Canadian Creek, runs north to south through the suburb's centre.

Mount Helen is the headquarters of Federation University Australia and the Ballarat Technology Park, a campus style office park with tenants including IBM, and a number of state government offices including the State Revenue Office, collectively employing more than 1,400 people.

Mount Helen is classed as automobile dependent and traffic along its main roads are some of the heaviest in urban Ballarat[3] with over 15,000 vehicles per day and expected to increase by almost 50% over the next three decades.

[4] The main form of public transport is a bus service which runs along the Midland Highway between Bunninyong and northern Ballarat at a frequency of approximately 30 minutes.