Park Toilets in Victoria

Victoria records 2,629 of Australia's 9,681 public toilets in parks and reserves — 27% of the national total. That makes it the second-largest state total, behind New South Wales (2,713). They sit in 1,075 named towns.

Lake Eildon (20), Eildon (19) and Melbourne (19) carry the most between them. Those 3 account for 58 of the 2,629; a further 491 towns record exactly one.

Among them are Galaxy Park at 25 Betula Terrace, Myers Reserve, Federation Park - Cobram and McKenzie Reserve. Around Lake Eildon the listings run to Wentworths, Kirbys and The Island.

Of the 2,629, 1,656 have parking on site, 296 have drinking water and 1,410 are recorded as wheelchair accessible. They are 45% of the 5,803 public toilets recorded in Victoria, and 52% of the round-the-clock ones.

1,410 of the 2,629 are recorded as wheelchair accessible — including Stradbroke Hall and Keystone Hall. 39 are Changing Places facilities, with an adult-sized change table and a hoist — among them Ballarat Botanical Gardens - North and Arthurs Seat Eagle. 31 open with an MLAK key, the national Master Locksmiths Access Key — among them Victoria Park Playground and Ruffey Lake Park 2. 47 need a key from the operator instead, which means finding whoever holds it before you arrive. 502 of the 2,629 have a baby-change table, and 480 of those sit at a site that is also wheelchair accessible.

1,556 of the 2,629 are published as open 24 hours — such as Balcombe Park Reserve and Buttercup 2. 743 open in daylight hours only, 91 list variable hours and 8 follow the host venue's hours. Where set times are published, the earliest opening is 5:15am at Beaconsfield Comfort Station and the latest closing is 11:59pm at Herbert Payne Reserve. 52 are shown as closed on Mondays. 845 publish no weekly hours at all, so treat those as unknown rather than open.

3 of the 2,629 charge for entry; the rest are free — the charging ones being Elmhurst Reserve and Hanging Rock Reserve. This is the largest category in the dataset by a wide margin, and it stretches from a single pan in a pocket park to a serviced block in a regional park. Many are locked at dusk even where no closing time is published. Every figure here is counted from the National Public Toilet Map, which operators and councils update at their own pace.