"Wollert" is a Woiwurrung word meaning "where possums abound", and the suburb takes its name from the land parish in which part of it is situated.

[6] Hehr's Pine Park Farm complex in Epping Road illustrates early German building practices the manner of which the resources of the land were put to use and the dairy and horse breeding industries.

In more recent years, dairying has largely ceased and smaller-scale grazing and Wollert's quarrying and brickmaking facilities represent the suburb's main industries.

Its architecture expresses key characteristics of the Carpenter Gothic style, including timber cladding and lancet windows.

[10] "The Christian Church in Melbourne" has its meeting hall at Wollert, on the site of the former Government school.