Australia’s most popular suburbs in every capital city in 2025

The Domain End of Year Wrap has revealed Australia’s most popular suburbs – the ones that buyers and window shoppers are circling the most when browsing for property online.

The report, released this week, combed domain.com.au for the highest views per residential listing for houses and units nationwide to form top 10 lists for every capital city.

Domain chief of research and economics Dr Nicola Powell says the suburb data can be helpful for property hunters as they indicate which areas are gaining traction and where activity is booming.

“The highest views per listing can give you an indication of which areas are really running hot in interest relative to the current level of supply,” she says. 

This year, many of the top suburbs were prestigious, blue-chip neighbourhoods. 

“These are high-income, premium-buyer segments,” Powell says. “They’re prestige markets with wealthier buyers, so they’re less interest-rate sensitive, and that means that these locations draw a crowd.

“When suburbs combine scarcity and desirability, it can help to really push up the views per listing.”

Powell says the buyer pool for these suburbs consists of typical next-home buyers who are upgrading properties and are laser-focused on specific suburbs until they find their dream home. This, in turn, can boost a suburb’s popularity on a property portal like Domain. 

Those who are simply browsing for fun can also drive a lot of listing views to popular capital-city suburbs, she adds.

“We’ve got to be realistic here; these areas are going to have more sticky-beakers and more dreamers than any other location, because these are the creme de la creme of Australia’s real estate,” Powell says.

Here are the top 10 most viewed suburbs in every capital city across Australia for 2025.

Most popular suburbs in Sydney

Sydney’s Inner West received a lot of attention this year, with the waterside suburb of Birchgrove topping the city’s list, followed by Stanmore and Paddington.

Part of Birchgrove’s popularity is that it’s located on a peninsula with views of the Harbour Bridge, says agent Susie Taylor of Belle Property Balmain.

“It’s always demands a higher price point than Balmain or other areas due to the proximity to the harbour, to lovely cafes and restaurants,” she says.  “It’s leafy and green, and you’ve got the ferries.”

Taylor says Birchgrove is tightly held, and overall stock has been very low in the past year, so the few properties that pop up attract massive interest.

“You could have anything from a teeny, tiny, one-bedroom apartment to a waterfront property with a marina that faces the Harbour Bridge,” she says. “There are lots of terraces, lots of beautiful conservation areas, and lots of beautiful old homes.”

The suburb’s quiet lifestyle compared to neighbouring Balmain is also a hit among buyers, Taylor adds.

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Most popular suburbs in Melbourne

For the second year in a row, Albert Park was Melbourne’s most viewed suburb on Domain – something that comes as no surprise to agent Stephanie Evans of Marshall White Port Phillip.

“’It’s the perfect combination of living near the beach and being 10 minutes from the city,” she says. “It’s got a village atmosphere.”

Albert Park has very few high-rise buildings, and most homes in the suburb are heritage-protected, Evans adds.

“Most of the homes in the area are Victorian homes,” she says. “They’re not heritage listed, but they’re heritage protected, which means that most of them cannot be pulled down and rebuilt into other properties, and that’s going back to the early 1900s.”

Evans says the tightly held nature of Albert Park makes competition and demand very strong.

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Most popular suburbs in Brisbane

New Beith has surprisingly topped the list as the most viewed suburb in Greater Brisbane, beating the well-known blue-chip suburbs of New Farm and Paddington. 

New Beith is a relatively new suburb, with growing demand from second and third-home buyers wanting to buy properties with large land sizes, says local agent Kerry Grant of Ray White Jimboomba.

“There’s a lot of new-build properties around – I’d say properties are anywhere from a year old to probably eight years old on average,” she says.

“Buyers are in their 40s, with young children growing up. So it’s not a first-home-buyer area by any means.

“The people selling tend to be the empty nesters, and they’ve all got acreage properties, but they’ve got no kids anymore, so it’s too big for them.”

Grant says it’s the perfect location for people who want the Australian lifestyle, with massive backyards that fit sheds and pools.

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Most popular suburbs in Canberra

Known for its tree-lined streets and its occasional kangaroo, Ainslie in the Inner North region of the ACT was the most-searched-for suburb in Canberra in 2025.

Other highly viewed suburbs included Wanniassa and Weston.

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Most popular suburbs in Adelaide

As Adelaide property prices cracked a $1 million median, the suburbs of Woodside, Stirling and Semaphore dominated buyers’ wish lists. 

Glenelg South fell from being the most viewed suburb in 2024 to ninth place. 

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Most popular suburbs in Perth

Serpentine rose through the ranks to became Perth’s most viewed suburb in 2025 after being third last year.

The top-10-viewed list for Perth was a mixed bag of city and semi-rural suburbs like Parkerville, Guildford and Gidgegannup.

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Most popular suburbs in Hobart

Inner-city West Hobart rose to the top spot in the Tasmanian capital this year, taking Battery Point’s crown. Other suburbs that ranked were South Hobart, Mount Stuart and Sandy Bay.

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Most popular suburbs in Darwin

Bees Creek, a rural town on the outskirts of Darwin, became the most-searched-for suburb in the Northern Territory’s capital city. The rural suburb of Humpty Doo and the beachside suburb of Fannie Bay followed.

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