Suburbs with the biggest blocks in Canberra
Forrest has the biggest house blocks, with a median of 1,674 m². These 15 suburbs came from a field of 86 eligible Canberra suburbs.
This ranking orders Canberra suburbs by the median land area of a house block: every lot in the suburb that holds a single address, measured from the state's land titles map. Strata and dual-occupancy sites are left out, so a block of flats does not count as one big block.
Suburbs whose median block is over 2,000 m² are listed separately as acreage, because ranked together they would fill the whole list with semi-rural land on the edge of the city. A suburb needs at least 1,000 residents and 50 house blocks to be ranked, and between 15 and 60 single-address lots per 100 residents: fewer means mostly apartments, more means mostly industry. Lots come from the state land titles maps of New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania and the ACT; Western Australia and the Northern Territory do not publish theirs openly, so there is no ranking there.
Canberra suburbs with the biggest house blocks
Ranked on the median land area of a house block: lots holding one address, so strata and dual-occupancy sites are left out. Suburbs whose median block is over 2,000 m² are in the acreage list instead.
Forrest
ACT 2603 · 1,827 residents1,674 m² median house block · 330 house blocks
Fraser
ACT 2615 · 2,126 residents1,100 m² median house block · 706 house blocks
Weetangera
ACT 2614 · 2,795 residents1,073 m² median house block · 825 house blocks
Hawker
ACT 2614 · 3,008 residents1,047 m² median house block · 843 house blocks
Reid
ACT 2612 · 1,544 residents1,045 m² median house block · 312 house blocks
Griffith
ACT 2603 · 5,328 residents1,020 m² median house block · 959 house blocks
Chapman
ACT 2611 · 2,867 residents1,006 m² median house block · 968 house blocks
Mawson
ACT 2607 · 3,440 residents968 m² median house block · 691 house blocks
Farrer
ACT 2607 · 3,787 residents942 m² median house block · 1,057 house blocks
Red Hill
ACT 2603 · 3,146 residents929 m² median house block · 1,004 house blocks
Macarthur
ACT 2904 · 1,405 residents923 m² median house block · 484 house blocks
Spence
ACT 2615 · 2,587 residents911 m² median house block · 917 house blocks
Pearce
ACT 2607 · 2,687 residents897 m² median house block · 731 house blocks
Torrens
ACT 2607 · 2,424 residents893 m² median house block · 784 house blocks
Garran
ACT 2605 · 3,706 residents892 m² median house block · 853 house blocks
Ranked from 86 qualifying suburbs.
Canberra acreage suburbs
Suburbs whose median house block is over 2,000 m², ranked on that median.
Too few Canberra suburbs qualify for this list to rank them: it needs at least 8.
Common questions about this ranking
What are the suburbs with the biggest blocks in Canberra?
Forrest has the biggest house blocks, with a median of 1,674 m². These 15 suburbs came from a field of 86 eligible Canberra suburbs.
How is block size measured for Canberra suburbs?
From the state land titles map: every lot in the suburb that holds exactly one address, with its area calculated from the lot boundary. The figure is the median of those lots, so half the suburb's house blocks are bigger and half smaller. Strata lots and blocks shared by several addresses are left out.
Why are acreage suburbs listed separately?
Suburbs whose median block is over 2,000 m² are mostly semi-rural land on the edge of the city. Ranked together with suburban streets they would fill the whole list, so they have a list of their own.
Why is a suburb I know has big blocks missing?
A suburb needs at least 1,000 residents and 50 house blocks, and between 15 and 60 single-address lots per 100 residents. Fewer means the suburb is mostly apartments with a few large commercial lots; more means it is mostly industry. Western Australia and the Northern Territory do not publish their land titles maps openly, so suburbs there are not ranked.
Same list in other cities
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Rankings last computed 11 October 2026. Recomputed after each ACARA schools data refresh.
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