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Highest-income suburbs in Australian Capital Territory

The suburbs in Australian Capital Territory with the highest median weekly household income at the 2021 Census, limited to those with at least 1,000 residents so the median reflects a meaningful sample. This is a factual ranking on a single ABS figure — not a measure of housing affordability, cost of living, or how good a place is to live or visit.

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    Red Hill (ACT), ACT

    Population 3,146 · Median income $3,938/wk · SEIFA 1164

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    Forde, ACT

    Population 4,435 · Median income $3,553/wk · SEIFA 1159

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    Forrest (ACT), ACT

    Population 1,827 · Median income $3,363/wk · SEIFA 1185

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    Weetangera, ACT

    Population 2,795 · Median income $3,349/wk · SEIFA 1144

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    Yarralumla, ACT

    Population 3,120 · Median income $3,327/wk · SEIFA 1161

    Yarralumla is an established, leafy suburb of inner south Canberra, stretching along the south-western shore of Lake Burley Griffin a few kilometres from the city centre. It is best known as the home of Government House, the official residence of Australia's Governor-General, and for the cluster of embassies and high commissions that give the suburb its diplomatic character. Other landmarks include the 1927 Albert Hall and the Japanese garden at Lennox Gardens. The name is older than the capital itself: it comes from an Aboriginal word recorded by the surveyor Robert Dixon in 1829 for a steep-sided valley of the Murrumbidgee River, and is usually translated as 'echo mountain'.

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    Fadden, ACT

    Population 3,006 · Median income $3,302/wk · SEIFA 1142

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    Denman Prospect, ACT

    Population 2,759 · Median income $3,219/wk · SEIFA 1174

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    Throsby, ACT

    Population 2,405 · Median income $3,181/wk · SEIFA 1144

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    Aranda, ACT

    Population 2,605 · Median income $3,161/wk · SEIFA 1147

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    Nicholls, ACT

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

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    Deakin, ACT

    Population 3,124 · Median income $3,117/wk · SEIFA 1169

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    Chapman, ACT

    Population 2,867 · Median income $3,111/wk · SEIFA 1146

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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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    Macarthur (ACT), ACT

    Population 1,405 · Median income $3,037/wk · SEIFA 1116

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    Garran, ACT

    Population 3,706 · Median income $2,985/wk · SEIFA 1141

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    Curtin, ACT

    Population 5,569 · Median income $2,886/wk · SEIFA 1135

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    Bonner, ACT

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

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    Crace, ACT

    Population 4,800 · Median income $2,811/wk · SEIFA 1150

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    Hughes (ACT), ACT

    Population 3,210 · Median income $2,797/wk · SEIFA 1128

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    Amaroo (ACT), ACT

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

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    Flynn (ACT), ACT

    Population 3,671 · Median income $2,728/wk · SEIFA 1079

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    Moncrieff, ACT

    Population 5,310 · Median income $2,699/wk · SEIFA 1100

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    McKellar, ACT

    Population 2,740 · Median income $2,687/wk · SEIFA 1079

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    Casey, ACT

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

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    Gowrie (ACT), ACT

    Population 3,140 · Median income $2,674/wk · SEIFA 1073

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