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Corio, Geelong — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Corio is a residential and industrial suburb of Geelong in Victoria, one of the city's largest, and was once known as Cowie's Creek.
About Corio
Where to stay in Corio
The right area depends on your trip — here's what each neighbourhood is best for.
Corio is one of Geelong's largest suburbs and one of its most workaday, a mix of housing estates and industrial land where beds are thin and the room supply belongs to the Geelong central business district instead. Nine kilometres separate the two. A stay out at Corio suits drivers who want space and an easy run down into Geelong rather than an evening within walking reach of the central business district.
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About Corio
What are the main landmarks in Corio?
Corio's markers are industrial. Nothing here reads as a monument: the suburb's identity rests on its works and housing estates, and on the older name Cowie's Creek, which the district carried after the early land owner James Cowie before it became Corio. Geelong keeps the civic buildings.
A visitor after built attractions drives into the Geelong central business district, leaving Corio to its own quieter mix of streets and industry in Victoria.
What is the history of Corio?
Corio began as Cowie's Creek. The name honoured James Cowie, an early land owner who was active in local and state government, and it stayed with the district long before the modern suburb of housing estates and works took shape. Geelong then spread outward to meet it.
What had been a creekside holding north of the town became one of the largest suburbs of Geelong, residential on one side and industrial on the other, inside Victoria.
Where is Corio?
Corio spreads about 9 km north of the Geelong central business district, a large residential and industrial suburb of Geelong in Victoria, Australia.
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Updated August 2026