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What it's like to live in any Australian suburb
A resident- and visitor-first guide to every Australian suburb and locality — built from real, cited public data, not real-estate sales pitches. One honest page per place.
Start typing a suburb — e.g. Bondi Beach, Toorak, Fremantle
1195 hand-written, fully cited guides · every state and territory · real ABS data, openly sourced
Every suburb, one honest page
A single, consistent page for every Australian suburb and locality — what the public data says about living or visiting there, built the same way for each.
Real public data, openly cited
ABS Census and SEIFA, plus climate normals — with named sources on every page and a person accountable for it. No real-estate spin, no invented numbers.
A score you can check
The Suburb Score places each suburb on one 0–100 national scale from the ABS's own index — explainable, reproducible, and easy to quote.
The Suburb Score
We place suburbs on a single 0–100 national scale using the Australian Bureau of Statistics' SEIFA index of socio-economic advantage — the ABS's own published measure, not a weighting we invented. It's a transparent, area-level indicator, not a verdict on how good a place is to live or visit. How we calculate it.
Featured guides
Hand-written, individually researched and cited guides to well-known suburbs and towns — written and reviewed by named people, with the figures left to each page's data. 1195 so far.
Recently updated guides
Suburb guides we've most recently deepened and re-verified — expanded sections and freshly checked figures, with sources cited on each page.
Suburb rankings
The most socio-economically advantaged suburbs by the Suburb Score — nationally and by state. An ABS-derived measure of advantage, not a verdict on how good a place is to live.
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Popular suburbs
- Point Cook
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- Glen Waverley
- Orange
- Castle Hill (NSW)
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- Sunbury
- St Albans (Vic.)
- Baldivis
- Baulkham Hills
- Frankston
- Hoppers Crossing
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- Merrylands
- Noble Park
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- Maroubra
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Best-of guides
Suburbs ranked on a single ABS Census figure at a time — highest household incomes and largest by population, nationally and by state. Transparent sorts on public data, not a verdict on where is best to live.
Compare suburbs
Two suburbs side by side on the data — population, demographics and climate.