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Best suburbs in Melbourne for coffee

Café density per resident, not raw café counts — so a big suburb cannot buy its way up.

How this is ranked. Cafés per 1,000 residents from OpenStreetMap, as a percentile. Per-resident rather than per-suburb deliberately: raw counts just rank the biggest suburbs. 216 of 216 Melbourne suburbs had enough data to be ranked. Updated August 2026.

#	Suburb	Cafés per 1,000	Café score
1	Melbourne	5.7	100
2	Collingwood	3.9	98
3	Fitzroy	4.1	98
4	Carlton	3.8	98
5	Docklands	4.7	98
6	Cremorne	4.2	97
7	Brunswick	2.9	96
8	East Melbourne	4.1	96
9	South Melbourne	3.7	96
10	Abbotsford	2.4	95
11	Parkville	4.2	95
12	Oakleigh	3.1	94
13	Footscray	2.6	94
14	Richmond	1.7	93
15	Brunswick East	1.6	92
16	North Melbourne	1.5	92
17	Fitzroy North	1.6	91
18	Fairfield	2.8	90
19	Southbank	1.3	90
20	South Yarra	1.3	89
21	Albert Park	2.3	89
22	Seddon	1.4	89
23	Hawthorn	1.5	88
24	Huntingdale	1.5	88
25	Clayton	1.8	87

Showing the top 25 of 216 ranked suburbs. Scores are percentiles against every other suburb in Melbourne: 100 is the best in the city, 50 is mid-table. Click any suburb for its full profile.

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Sources: open GPS activity traces, official crime statistics, ABS census, OpenStreetMap (ODbL). No ranking on this site is sold or sponsored.
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