 It is the seat of the Mitcham Council.The area is generally affluent.Theodore Ambrose (1880-1947) medical practitioner

Major Rupert Downes (1885-1945) surgeon and soldier

Hedley Herbert Finlayson (1895-1991) conservationist and mammalogist

John Harvey Finlayson (1843-1915) newspaper editor

Laura Margaret Hope (1868-1952) medical practitioner

Doris Egerton Jones (1889-1973) writer

Ellen Thornber (1851-1947) schoolmistress

Joseph Garnett Wood (1900-1959) botanist