The best suburbs, ranked by real data — not vibes.
Open GPS-activity heat + official crime statistics + census incomes, blended per suburb. Pick your city, drag the sliders, watch the ranking re-order live.
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🗺️ Suburb maps: Melbourne · Sydney · Brisbane · Perth · Adelaide
Moving to a new city?
Relocation guides computed from the same data as every ranking here — which suburbs are safest, best value and best for families, with the working shown.
Best suburbs for families
Full ranking: Melbourne · Sydney · Brisbane · Perth · Adelaide
Safest suburbs
Full ranking: Melbourne · Sydney · Brisbane · Perth (no safety data) · Adelaide
Best value suburbs
Full ranking: Melbourne · Sydney · Brisbane · Perth (no safety data) · Adelaide
Greenest suburbs
Full ranking: Melbourne · Sydney · Brisbane · Perth · Adelaide
Best suburbs for coffee
Full ranking: Melbourne · Sydney · Brisbane · Perth · Adelaide
Popular rankings
Common questions
What is the best suburb in Australia?
There is no single answer, because we rank suburbs within each city. On our default blend (safety, activity, value, parks and cafés), the top-ranked suburb in each city is: Eaglemont (Melbourne), Cammeray (Sydney), Ashgrove (Brisbane), Floreat (Perth), Leabrook (Adelaide). Change the sliders on any city page and the order changes.
Which Australian cities does BestSuburbs cover?
Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide: 1,445 suburbs in total, each scored on ten measures from public data.
Where does the data come from?
Official state police crime statistics where a suburb-level release exists, ABS census income and population, open GPS-activity heat, OpenStreetMap parks, cafés, gyms and transit stops, and parkrun locations. Every suburb page lists its sources; the full method is on the methodology page.
Is BestSuburbs sponsored?
No. No ranking is sold or sponsored, and there is no editorial opinion in the scores. Read the method at /methodology/ and check any suburb against its listed sources.
How the ranking is built
Every suburb gets ten scores from public data — official crime statistics, census income and population, open GPS-activity heat, parks and green-space access, cafés, gyms, transit stops and the nearest parkrun. No survey, no sponsorship, no editorial opinion. The inputs and their sources are listed on every page.