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Best Cycling Suburbs in Victoria

Suburbs with the best cycling infrastructure signals — bike parking, hire facilities and recreational cycling access from OpenStreetMap data.

Melbourne currently leads this Victoria list. Suburbs with the best cycling infrastructure signals — bike parking, hire facilities and recreational cycling access from OpenStreetMap 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	Melbourne	100
#2	Geelong	95
#3	Fitzroy	80
#4	Oakleigh	79
#5	Caulfield East	79
#6	East Melbourne	79
#7	Footscray	79
#8	Sunshine	78
#9	Geelong West	78
#10	Brunswick East	78
#11	Collingwood	78
#12	Albert Park	78
#13	Ballarat Central	78
#14	Brunswick	77
#15	Moonee Ponds	77
#16	Carlton	77
#17	Laverton	77
#18	South Melbourne	76
#19	Heidelberg	76
#20	Abbotsford	76
#21	Springvale	76
#22	Box Hill	76
#23	Hawthorn	75
#24	Fairfield	75
#25	Fitzroy North	75
#26	Coburg	75
#27	North Melbourne	75
#28	Parkville	75
#29	Clayton	75
#30	Kensington	74
#31	Coburg North	74
#32	Lake Wendouree	74
#33	Southbank	74
#34	Docklands	74
#35	Prahran	74
#36	Sandringham	73
#37	Preston	73
#38	Yarraville	73
#39	Northcote	73
#40	Wonthaggi	73
#41	Richmond	73
#42	Flemington	73
#43	Ringwood	73
#44	Chelsea	73
#45	Ringwood East	72
#46	Ascot Vale	72
#47	Balwyn	71
#48	Clifton Hill	71
#49	Bayswater	70
#50	Dandenong	70

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 3 October 2026 at 1:48 am AEST

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