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Best Café Lifestyle in New South Wales

Suburbs with the highest dining and café density, ranked for everyday food-and-coffee culture from amenity and census data.

Albury currently leads this New South Wales list. Suburbs with the highest dining and café density, ranked for everyday food-and-coffee culture from amenity and census data. The index is relative to this list (100 = the top suburb here), not an overall suburb rating. Very small localities can rank highly when nearby services score well — check population and housing on each profile before treating a rank as a place to live.

Rank	Suburb	Index
#1	Albury	100
#2	Alexandria	100
#3	Bathurst	100
#4	Bondi Beach	100
#5	Brookvale	100
#6	Byron Bay	100
#7	Chatswood	100
#8	Chippendale	100
#9	Crows Nest	100
#10	Darlinghurst	100
#11	Darlington	100
#12	Double Bay	100
#13	Glebe	100
#14	Gosford	100
#15	Haymarket	100
#16	Katoomba	100
#17	Kiama	100
#18	Leura	100
#19	Lismore	100
#20	Macquarie Park	100
#21	Manly	100
#22	Marrickville	100
#23	Neutral Bay	100
#24	Newcastle	100
#25	Newtown	100
#26	North Sydney	100
#27	Paddington	100
#28	Parramatta	100
#29	Penrith	100
#30	Petersham	100
#31	Potts Point	100
#32	Pyrmont	100
#33	Redfern	100
#34	St Leonards	100
#35	Surry Hills	100
#36	Sydney	100
#37	Sydney Olympic Park	100
#38	The Rocks	100
#39	Ultimo	100
#40	Waterloo	100
#41	Windsor	100
#42	Wollongong	100
#43	Zetland	99
#44	Mona Vale	98
#45	Summer Hill	98
#46	Bowral	98
#47	Camperdown	98
#48	Bondi Junction	98
#49	Wagga Wagga	98
#50	Gordon	97

Index shows relative strength within this list. 100 is the top-ranked suburb; lower values are further from the leader, not an overall suburb rating.

Last updated 4 October 2026 at 1:54 am AEST

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