How this works
The viral "Strava heatmap = good suburb" trick has a real insight buried in it — places where people run, ride and walk at night are usually places people feel safe. But heat lines alone mostly show where fit people live, and they happily run straight through high-crime pockets. So we treat activity as one signal of five, and back it with official data.
🏃 Activity
Density of public GPS traces (OpenStreetMap, ODbL) plus gyms, ovals, pools and sports facilities per km². The glowing map layer is this data, rendered raw.
🛡️ Safety
No per-suburb crime statistics are published for this state, so this city has NO safety score. We would rather leave it out than substitute a number from a coarser geography and imply it means something it does not.
💰 Value
Median household income vs median rent (ABS Census 2021). High score = your rent buys more suburb than it should.
🏷️ Sale prices
Median sale price: not available for Western Australia — Landgate sells suburb sales reports and REIWA's medians are commercial; there is no open-licence suburb-level sale price dataset for WA.
🌳 Parks & ☕ Cafés
OpenStreetMap park and café density per km², blended 50/50 with the same counts normalised per 1,000 residents so both crowded inner suburbs and sparser leafy ones can score well.
💪 Active & Healthy
A composite of fitness-infrastructure density (gyms/ovals/pools per capita), proximity + attendance at the nearest parkrun event, % of the suburb within 400m of a park, and café density per capita. Off by default — drag its slider up to weight it into the ranking.
🧮 The blend
Every suburb gets a 0–100 percentile per signal. Your sliders weight the signals; the headline number is the weighted blend. No paid placements, ever.
Top 10 suburbs in Perth (October 2026)
Updated 10 October 2026 · one sentence of real reasons per suburb, from the data on this page.
- Floreat ★ 88
What lifts Floreat to #1 is 97% of it within 400 m of a park; it also has 10.6 ha of parkland per 1,000 residents, and 5 cafés.
- Mosman Park ★ 86
#2 Mosman Park — 93% of it within 400 m of a park, plus 2 public transport stops inside it for a transit score of 95, and 4 cafés.
- Guildford ★ 84
#3 Guildford — 94% of it within 400 m of a park, plus 2 public transport stops inside it for a transit score of 98, and 18.1 ha of parkland per 1,000 residents.
- Harrisdale ★ 83
Harrisdale ranks #4: 100% of it within 400 m of a park, 12.7 ha of parkland per 1,000 residents, and 5 cafés.
- Mount Claremont ★ 81
#5 Mount Claremont — 82% of it within 400 m of a park, plus 6 mapped schools nearby, and median rent of $420 a week.
- Peppermint Grove ★ 80
Peppermint Grove (#6) scores on 2 cafés and 61% of it within 400 m of a park, and 3 mapped schools nearby.
- Dalkeith ★ 79
What lifts Dalkeith to #7 is 97% of it within 400 m of a park; it also has 9.2 ha of parkland per 1,000 residents, and 1 mapped school nearby.
- Cottesloe ★ 78
What lifts Cottesloe to #8 is 2 public transport stops inside it for a transit score of 97; it also has 6 cafés, and 67% of it within 400 m of a park.
- Bedford ★ 77
#9 Bedford — 99% of it within 400 m of a park, plus 2 mapped schools nearby, and median rent of $360 a week.
- Piara Waters ★ 77
What lifts Piara Waters to #10 is 94% of it within 400 m of a park; it also has 5 mapped schools nearby, and median rent of $420 a week.
Which Perth suburbs offer the best value?
Peppermint Grove — value score 100/100, median rent $440/wk
Bedfordale — value score 99/100, median rent $370/wk
Coolbinia — value score 99/100, median rent $350/wk
Swanbourne — value score 99/100, median rent $470/wk
Daglish — value score 98/100, median rent $295/wk
See the full which Perth suburbs offer the best value? ranking →
What are the best inner-city & lifestyle suburbs in Perth?
Subiaco — cafés 98/100, transit 92/100, activity 88/100
Fremantle — cafés 99/100, transit 85/100, activity 93/100
Perth — cafés 100/100, transit 99/100, activity 78/100
Claremont — cafés 92/100, transit 96/100, activity 87/100
Cottesloe — cafés 85/100, transit 97/100, activity 91/100
See the full what are the best inner-city & lifestyle suburbs in Perth? ranking →
Frequently asked questions
What is the cheapest suburb to rent in Perth?
Menora has the lowest median rent in our Perth dataset, at $240/week (ABS Census 2021).
What is the best suburb in Perth for lifestyle and cafés?
Subiaco leads Perth for lifestyle, with a café score of 98/100 and a transit score of 92/100.
How are Perth suburbs ranked?
Every suburb gets a 0–100 percentile score across up to 10 signals — safety (official crime statistics), activity (open GPS-activity traces), value (income vs rent), parks, green space, cafés, transit, wealth, parkrun proximity and a healthy/active composite. You set the weights with the sliders above; the ranking re-orders live. Full method: bestsuburbs.io/methodology.