Sunshine West is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 13 km (8.1 mi) west of Melbourne's central business district, located within the City of Brimbank local government area.
Sunshine West presently features a significant ethnically diverse population, being home to many refugees and immigrant families that have settled from Europe, Asia and the Pacific, especially from Malta, Greece, Italy, North Macedonia, Croatia, Vietnam, China and the Philippines.
Major features of the area include the Sunshine Wisdom Lodge – Freemasons Victoria, Saint Leopold Mandić Croatian Catholic Church and Centre, West Sunshine Community Centre, Ainsworth Reserve, Buckingham Reserve, Norm Talintyre Reserve, the Australia Post Parcel Facility, the nearby Ardeer railway station and numerous schools.
The top languages spoken at home were English at 31.7%, Vietnamese at 20.3%, Greek 4.7%, Maltese 2.8%, Cantonese 2.4%, and Macedonian at 2.3%.
The religious makeup of Sunshine West is Catholic at 29.2%, no religion at 22.1%, Buddhism 11.8%, Islam 9.6%, and Eastern Orthodox at 8.0%.