Melbournes Top 5 Hipster Suburbs (2024)

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Thus, though there is still the occasional teasing, Melbourne is somewhat a hipster's paradise. Though there are many hipster suburbs right near the Melbourne CBD, two of the most popular and iconic have to be Brunswick and Fitzroy.

Fitzroy, St Kilda, Collingwood, Flemington, and Windsor are the suburbs in which you're most likely to find suspender-wearing green voters sitting on milk crates while stroking their bushranger beards and discussing foreign films.

The inner south bayside suburbs have always been home to artists, bohemians and colourful characters that make St Kilda, South Melbourne, Port Melbourne and the surrounding neighbourhoods such eclectic and expressive areas of our beautiful City.

Along with the nearby Fitzroy neighborhood, Collingwood makes up what you could call Melbourne's Brooklyn. Streets such as Smith, Gertrude, and Brunswick are filled with cafés, along with one-off designer boutiques, art deco bars serving local microbrews, pocket-size sushi joints, and dandy hat shops.

Amazingly, it was the Gold Coast that shocked by taking out the top spot. “As the two most densely populated Australian cities… Melbourne and Sydney are simply too big to ooze the niche hipster cool, that the study… demands,” the study said.

Nimbin, New South Wales

In 1973, the Australian Union of Students organised an Aquarius Festival in the town and overnight it became a hippie cultural hub. Now, Nimbin proudly wears its colourful, alternative spirit on its sleeve.

Gen-Y or Millennials: The first-home buyers

Melbourne's Clyde North, Tarneit, Cobblebank – Strathtulloh, Rockbank, and Sydney's Box Hill – Nelson, Marsden Park – Shanes Park, and Schofields East have experienced remarkable growth, with the Millennial cohort increasing by at least 200% in these areas.

Meet Fitzroy and Collingwood: Melbourne's twin star neighbourhoods of the inner north. Dig the quirks, creativity and style on Gertrude, Brunswick, Smith and Johnston Streets. Some of the best food, fashion, music and arts sprout from historic bluestone buildings and laneways in this part of the city.

Fitzroy, Melbourne, Victoria

Compile any list of Australia's coolest neighbourhoods and Fitzroy nearly always comes out on top. Eclectic, creative and ever evolving, it was the highest ranked Aussie suburb in Time Out's 2022 list of the 51 Coolest Neighbourhoods in the World.

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Fitzroy was first established in 1839 as Melbourne's first suburb. Since then, it has transformed itself from an industrial working-class suburb into a highly sought after area with many apartment buildings and extensive shopping and dining precincts.

“While exploring the same topic using the latest Census data, an article from the ABC considered Point Cook in Victoria to be the country's most multicultural suburb based on the fact that the residents are from 86 different countries,” notes author Charlotte Pan.

Melbourne has a population over 5 million (19% of the population of Australia, as of the 2021 census), mostly residing to the east of the city centre, and its inhabitants are commonly referred to as "Melburnians".

Fitzroy is not only one of Melbourne's coolest suburbs, but it's also the city's oldest, dating back to 1839. It's where the true alternative side of the city lives and breathes, and where anything creative, goes.

Melbourne is pretty much the birthplace of the Aussie hipster, and, as you cruise through the city's upscale bars and retro pubs, you're probably going to run into a few of them. So, to avoid being out-hipstered by Australia's coolest individuals, we're going to show you how to navigate Melbourne like an OG hipster.

Some locations in Melbourne where we anticipate significant gentrification are places further north and west of Melbourne. Suburbs in the north include: Beverage, Donnybrook, Sunbury and Wollert to name a few. Suburbs in the west include: Geelong, Werribee and Wyndham Vale to also name a few.