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Best suburbs in Sydney for runners

How close the nearest parkrun is, how much running actually happens, and how much park to run in.

How this is ranked. Distance to the nearest parkrun, GPS activity heat, and the parks score. The activity figure comes from open GPS traces, so it reflects where people genuinely run rather than where a real-estate listing claims they do. 422 of 422 Sydney suburbs had enough data to be ranked. Updated August 2026.

#	Suburb	Nearest parkrun (km)	Which parkrun	Activity
1	Balmain East	0.9	Pirrama parkrun	96
2	North Sydney	0.7	North Sydney parkrun	98
3	Neutral Bay	0.8	North Sydney parkrun	94
4	Cammeray	0.9	North Sydney parkrun	100
5	Liberty Grove	0.8	Rhodes parkrun	75
6	Kirribilli	1.9	North Sydney parkrun	92
7	Sydney Olympic Park	0.8	Wentworth Common parkrun	87
8	Cremorne	1.3	North Sydney parkrun	100
9	Crows Nest	0.9	North Sydney parkrun	84
10	Birchgrove	1.8	Pirrama parkrun	81
11	Cremorne Point	2.0	North Sydney parkrun	98
12	Waverton	1.6	North Sydney parkrun	73
13	Wollstonecraft	1.5	North Sydney parkrun	94
14	Canterbury	0.1	Cooks River parkrun	84
15	Greenwich	2.1	Willoughby parkrun	88
16	Milsons Point	1.9	North Sydney parkrun	88
17	Balmain	1.3	Pirrama parkrun	66
18	Haberfield	0.6	GreenWay parkrun	82
19	Marsfield	0.9	Macquarie University parkrun	89
20	Camperdown	2.1	St Peters parkrun	71
21	Rozelle	1.6	Pirrama parkrun	66
22	Panania	1.1	Panania parkrun	79
23	Erskineville	0.7	St Peters parkrun	50
24	Pyrmont	0.4	Pirrama parkrun	58
25	Kensington	1.6	Centennial parkrun	66

Showing the top 25 of 422 ranked suburbs. Scores are percentiles against every other suburb in Sydney: 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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