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Greenest suburbs in Melbourne

Park land per resident and how much of the suburb is within walking distance of it.

How this is ranked. Green space (share of the suburb within walking distance of a park) blended with the parks score, which is park hectares per 1,000 residents. Both are computed from OpenStreetMap park polygons, not from postcode averages. 216 of 216 Melbourne suburbs had enough data to be ranked. Updated August 2026.

#	Suburb	Park ha / 1,000	Within walk of a park (%)
1	Parkville	28.5	99.6
2	Essendon West	23.3	99.7
3	St Helena	6.4	99.8
4	East Melbourne	13.0	100.0
5	Avondale Heights	11.3	98.3
6	Eltham North	5.4	100.0
7	Westmeadows	26.1	97.1
8	Coburg North	10.3	99.2
9	Keilor Lodge	2.9	100.0
10	Seaholme	6.5	98.2
11	Keilor East	20.7	92.8
12	Burnside Heights	6.4	100.0
13	Eaglemont	11.0	86.5
14	Fitzroy North	2.5	99.9
15	Cairnlea	10.6	99.8
16	Seabrook	4.1	100.0
17	Greensborough	5.5	95.5
18	Mont Albert North	3.9	96.0
19	Macleod	9.3	90.5
20	Albert Park	22.6	86.4
21	Kensington	1.8	97.9
22	Bundoora	16.1	93.1
23	Heidelberg	7.7	92.5
24	Yallambie	6.4	79.7
25	Bulleen	11.1	95.4

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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