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Best suburbs in Sydney for young professionals

Cafés, public transport and how much life is actually happening on the street.

How this is ranked. Cafés per 1,000 residents, public transport access, and GPS activity heat — the last being a measure of how much walking, running and riding actually happens there, rather than how it is marketed. 422 of 422 Sydney suburbs had enough data to be ranked. Updated August 2026.

#	Suburb	Cafés	Transit	Activity
1	North Sydney	99	91	98
2	Milsons Point	98	99	88
3	Edgecliff	96	99	88
4	Sydney	100	98	73
5	Parramatta	94	96	80
6	Potts Point	98	98	70
7	Petersham	94	92	74
8	St Leonards	98	96	65
9	Waverton	87	97	73
10	Haymarket	98	100	58
11	Rhodes	90	95	70
12	Stanmore	82	92	81
13	Meadowbank	70	97	86
14	Pyrmont	95	100	58
15	Alexandria	94	80	75
16	Bondi Junction	92	94	63
17	Sutherland	82	93	72
18	Wollstonecraft	59	93	94
19	Tempe	67	88	90
20	Gordon	85	79	76
21	Newtown	96	90	54
22	Erskineville	93	96	50
23	Rockdale	80	84	72
24	Glebe	92	89	55
25	Banksia	58	95	81

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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