Where are Australia's most well-loved open spaces?

One of the best parts of creating Australia-wide lifestyle data monthly, is getting to look across the country and ask ‘Which neighbourhood has the best [insert desired amenity]?’ . In fact that question became so common, this month we decided to run the numbers and answer your questions: where are Australia’s most loved - open spaces, dining precincts, arts & culture hubs, community services. 

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How do we define 'well-loved'?

As a lifestyle data tool for place makers, we have designed our analytics to help you see the neighbourhood through locals' eyes. As part of this, we have developed a metric called "relevance", which is looking to quantify place attachment.

Think about it like this: 

‍A park that is unsuccessful is not actually a park that people dislike, it's a park that people don't think about - somewhere that is just the 'background' to what they are doing, and not a reason to visit or come back.

By capturing the velocity of digital activity generated as people interact digitally with a local place, we can score every amenity across Australia, and then identify which local neighbourhoods are the best served by places that people love.

‍‍Read on to learn where the highest concentration of well-loved open space are located across Australia.

Want to see more? Then take a look at the data report powering each location, and read right to the end to see the methodology.

Australia's Top 50 suburbs - the locations with the best offer of well-loved open spaces

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Results by State

Queensland

New South Wales

South Australia

Victoria

Western Australia

Tasmania

ACT

Northern Territory

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About our Methodology

• Analysis undertaken using the “Attractions” data directly from the Neighbourlytics platform.
• All analysis at a ‘whole of suburb’ level, and suburbs with a residential population less than 500 were excluded.
• Suburbs were ranked by the count of open spaces with a ‘relevance score’ of over 7. 
• Neighbourlytics’ ‘relevance score’ is a place attachment index calculated by examining the digital footprint of a local amenity - essentially how much community-driven digital activity is generated when people like, rate, follow, mention, checkin, and review the place.