Sunshine is located 12km west of the CBD. Sunshine is the major commercial, industrial and transport centre for the middle and outer western suburs of Melbourne. It is a highly multicultural suburb, comprising a significant Vietnamese community.
Although there has been a decrease in manufacturing employment since the early 1980s, it still provides a quarter of all jobs for Sunshine's worforce.
Sunshine is the railway junction for the Ballarat and St Albans railway lines and features the Footscray TAFE - Sunshine Campus and the Sunshine Centre Plaza.