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Healthiest, most active suburbs in Melbourne

Where people genuinely walk, run and ride — measured, not claimed.

How this is ranked. GPS activity heat per square kilometre from open activity traces, blended with the healthy score (gyms, sports facilities and parks per resident). This is the dataset nobody else in the category publishes. 216 of 216 Melbourne suburbs had enough data to be ranked. Updated August 2026.

#	Suburb	Activity heat / km²	Gyms + sport per 1,000	Healthy score
1	Parkville	—	12.9	96
2	Albert Park	—	14.1	91
3	Aberfeldie	—	17.1	82
4	East Melbourne	—	7.2	83
5	Heidelberg	—	5.8	83
6	Kew	—	9.5	72
7	Deepdene	—	14.3	72
8	Hawthorn	—	11.7	70
9	Kew East	—	9.5	73
10	Canterbury	—	13.6	71
11	Brighton	—	12.2	65
12	Burwood	—	5.4	78
13	Travancore	—	6.1	75
14	Essendon West	—	12.8	78
15	Clifton Hill	—	5.6	75
16	Camberwell	—	6.1	69
17	Glen Iris	—	7.8	67
18	Coburg North	—	6.5	85
19	Seaholme	—	7.7	62
20	Bulleen	—	7.6	78
21	Lower Plenty	—	42.1	61
22	Balwyn North	—	9.0	67
23	Templestowe	—	19.0	67
24	Eaglemont	—	6.8	77
25	Murrumbeena	—	8.6	58

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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