[1][2] Mainly a residential suburb, Westmeadows includes the areas east and west of Mickleham Road.

It borders include Yuroke Creek between Johnstone Street and Barry Road (the eastern limit), the border with Attwood (the water pipes path parallel to Toora Drive and Linga and Kenny Streets) as well as the Moonee Ponds Creek east of Mickleham Road (the northern limits) and just before the Cleanaway Landfill (the western limit).

The Broadmeadows area, home to the Wurundjeri Aboriginal tribe prior to European settlement, was settled by pastoralists in the 1840s.

Broadmeadows township and the urban centre began to be moved two kilometres eastwards when the railway line and station were opened in 1872.

Shire loyalties clung to the old township until new civic offices were built near the railway station in 1928.

These include the Shire Offices and the Bluestone Bridge over the Moonee Ponds Creek (built in 1869, part of Fawkner Street) which are both on the Register of the National Estate.

The most common foreign languages spoken in Westmeadows are Italian, Turkish, Arabic (including Lebanese), and Greek.

The Westmeadows Heights Reserve includes another Cricket oval (with nets) and two Soccer fields.