Drouin is a major service town, located in the
West Gippsland region, east of
Melbourne, in the
Australian state of
Victoria. Its local government area is the
Shire of Baw Baw. The town is supposedly named after a Frenchman who invented a chlorination process for the extraction of ore or an Aboriginal word meaning "north wind". New housing developments have accelerated the town's residential growth in recent years. As at the
2011 census, Drouin had a population of people.