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Largest suburbs in Australian Capital Territory

The most populous suburbs and localities in Australian Capital Territory, by usual resident count at the 2021 Census.

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    Kambah, ACT

    Population 15,670 · Median income $2,207/wk · SEIFA 1049

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    Ngunnawal, ACT

    Population 10,957 · Median income $2,219/wk · SEIFA 1053

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    Gungahlin, ACT

    Population 8,586 · Median income $2,208/wk · SEIFA 1071

    Gungahlin is one of Canberra's district town centres, set about 10 kilometres north of the city centre. The traditional custodians of the district are the Ngunnawal people, and the name is said to come from an Aboriginal word, variously translated as little rocky hill or white man's house. Long farmland on the capital's edge, Gungahlin has become one of the country's fastest-growing areas, its modern town centre now the northern terminus of Canberra's light rail line to Civic. Families are drawn by new suburbs, the waterside paths around Yerrabi Pond, and the restored woodland and wildlife sanctuary at nearby Mulligans Flat. Shops, schools, and transport make it a self-contained northern hub.

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    Belconnen, ACT

    Population 8,502 · Median income $1,776/wk · SEIFA 1058

    Belconnen is one of Canberra's largest districts and its busy north-western hub, set about 7 kilometres from the city centre around the shores of Lake Ginninderra. The area grew from rural land once granted to the explorer Charles Sturt and later worked as part of Robert Campbell's Duntroon estate, and today it spreads across more than two dozen suburbs to form one of the most populous parts of the capital. Its town centre, anchored by a large Westfield shopping complex and a cluster of offices and apartments, is among the territory's busiest. The artificial lake at its heart draws walkers, rowers, and cyclists to a looping shoreline path, with bush reserves never far away.

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    Harrison, ACT

    Population 8,244 · Median income $2,636/wk · SEIFA 1114

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    Gordon (ACT), ACT

    Population 7,892 · Median income $2,321/wk · SEIFA 1050

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    Wanniassa, ACT

    Population 7,885 · Median income $2,295/wk · SEIFA 1060

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    Kaleen, ACT

    Population 7,672 · Median income $2,336/wk · SEIFA 1069

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    Bruce (ACT), ACT

    Population 7,520 · Median income $2,266/wk · SEIFA 1117

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    Franklin (ACT), ACT

    Population 7,484 · Median income $2,383/wk · SEIFA 1102

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    Bonner, ACT

    Population 7,339 · Median income $2,811/wk · SEIFA 1095

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    Dunlop, ACT

    Population 7,265 · Median income $2,503/wk · SEIFA 1060

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    Macgregor (ACT), ACT

    Population 7,049 · Median income $2,344/wk · SEIFA 1048

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    Watson, ACT

    Population 6,727 · Median income $2,414/wk · SEIFA 1110

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    Nicholls, ACT

    Population 6,680 · Median income $3,134/wk · SEIFA 1125

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    Kingston (ACT), ACT

    Population 6,579 · Median income $2,469/wk · SEIFA 1163

    Kingston is one of Canberra's oldest and most densely populated suburbs, set just south of Lake Burley Griffin in the South Canberra district, a few kilometres from the city centre. Laid out in the mid-1920s — originally as Eastlake — and gazetted in 1928, it pairs a heritage core of early inter-war housing with the modern Kingston Foreshore, a lakeside precinct of apartments, restaurants and bars. The 1915 Kingston Powerhouse, often described as Canberra's first permanent public building, now houses the Canberra Glassworks, and the popular Old Bus Depot Markets run on Sundays nearby. The suburb is generally said to be named after Charles Cameron Kingston, a South Australian premier and figure in Federation.

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    Campbell, ACT

    Population 6,564 · Median income $3,052/wk · SEIFA 1168

    Campbell sits just east of the city centre at the foot of Mount Ainslie, one of Canberra's older inner suburbs and the address of several of the nation's best-known institutions. It takes its name from Robert Campbell, the merchant whose Duntroon estate once covered this part of the valley. The Australian War Memorial stands at the suburb's edge, closing the long ceremonial vista down Anzac Parade towards Parliament House, and the grounds of the Royal Military College, Duntroon and the Australian Defence Force Academy lie within Campbell as well. Behind the houses, the slopes of Mount Ainslie offer walking tracks and one of the finest lookouts over the planned capital.

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    Casey, ACT

    Population 6,471 · Median income $2,680/wk · SEIFA 1114

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    Narrabundah, ACT

    Population 6,455 · Median income $2,353/wk · SEIFA 1094

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    Braddon, ACT

    Population 6,383 · Median income $2,259/wk · SEIFA 1155

    Braddon is an inner-northern Canberra suburb in the North Canberra district, about 2 km north-east of the city centre. Once a quiet residential area, it has become one of the capital's busiest lifestyle precincts: its spine, Lonsdale Street, is lined with restaurants, cafes, bars, galleries and independent shops, and the suburb is now Canberra's most densely populated as older houses give way to apartments. It also keeps the Braddon garden-city heritage precinct, noted as the only fully realised Walter Burley Griffin residential design built in Canberra. Gazetted in 1928, it is named after Sir Edward Braddon, a colonial politician and figure in the Federation movement who took part in drafting the Australian Constitution.

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    Amaroo (ACT), ACT

    Population 6,129 · Median income $2,769/wk · SEIFA 1092

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    O'Connor (ACT), ACT

    Population 5,917 · Median income $2,518/wk · SEIFA 1119

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    Calwell, ACT

    Population 5,730 · Median income $2,460/wk · SEIFA 1065

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    Lyneham, ACT

    Population 5,703 · Median income $2,084/wk · SEIFA 1088

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    Monash (ACT), ACT

    Population 5,644 · Median income $2,164/wk · SEIFA 1063

Rankings are editorial, based on the public data shown on each suburb page. See our methodology.