What are the largest suburbs in Australian Capital Territory?

The top-ranked suburbs are Kambah, Ngunnawal, Belconnen, Gungahlin, Bruce, and more, ordered by a category-specific composite score from official government and open data.

What does the index column mean on ranking pages?

The index shows relative strength within the ranking list. 100 is the top-ranked suburb; lower values are further from the leader. It is not an overall suburb rating out of 100.

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Largest Suburbs in Australian Capital Territory

Suburbs ranked by estimated resident population from the latest ABS ERP release, allocated to suburb boundaries via area-weighted SA2 overlap.

Rank	Suburb	Population
#1	Kambah	15,767
#2	Ngunnawal	11,132
#3	Belconnen	9,619
#4	Gungahlin	9,343
#5	Bruce	8,818
#6	Harrison	8,012
#7	Gordon	7,840
#8	Wanniassa	7,765
#9	Campbell	7,754
#10	Kaleen	7,735
#11	Franklin	7,674
#12	Bonner	7,563
#13	Braddon	7,478
#14	Watson	7,477
#15	Phillip	7,385
#16	Kingston	7,350
#17	Dunlop	7,263
#18	Macgregor	7,083
#19	Narrabundah	6,926
#20	Casey	6,911
#21	Denman Prospect	6,704
#22	Nicholls	6,548
#23	Moncrieff	6,546
#24	Coombs	6,292
#25	Amaroo	6,267
#26	Griffith	6,176
#27	Holt	6,016
#28	Lyneham	5,677
#29	Palmerston	5,675
#30	Curtin	5,625
#31	Calwell	5,601
#32	Evatt	5,564
#33	City	5,485
#34	Ainslie	5,474
#35	Monash	5,474
#36	Greenway	5,424
#37	O'Connor	5,394
#38	Chisholm	5,386
#39	Turner	5,017
#40	Banks	5,008
#41	Conder	4,970
#42	Wright	4,925
#43	Crace	4,916
#44	Florey	4,824
#45	Downer	4,795
#46	Taylor	4,760
#47	Isabella Plains	4,522
#48	Forde	4,461
#49	Dickson	4,070
#50	Weston	3,987

Population is ABS Estimated Resident Population allocated to suburb boundaries via area-weighted SA2 overlap. Not an official ABS suburb-level figure.

Last updated 29 July 2026 at 2:21 am AEST

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