Suburb profile
Acton ACT 2601
Acton is located in the Canberra region of the Australian Capital Territory, postcode 2601. It has 327 properties across 30 streets, mostly houses. Explore every street in Acton, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.
About Acton
Acton, ACT 2601, sits in the Canberra region and neighbours Canberra Central, City, O'Connor and Parkes. Its 30 streets hold 327 properties, 244 of them houses and 83 units.
At the 2021 Census Acton had 2,848 residents, a median age of 19 and an average household of 1 person. Median household income was $0 a week, the median mortgage repayment $0 a month and the median rent $9 a week. Dwellings totalled 0, with 0 separate houses, 0 semi-detached and 0 flats; 0 were owned outright, 0 owned with a mortgage and 0 rented.
Updated October 2026
Who lives in Acton
- 2,848Peoplelive in the area
- 19Median ageyears
- $0Median household incomea week
- $9Median renta week
Household
- Median mortgage repayment$0a month
- Household size1people on average
Streets in Acton
- Bachelors Lane1 property
- Balmain Crescent27 properties
- Balmain Lane2 properties
- Barrine Drive2 properties
- Barry Drive1 property
- Brian Lewis Crescent15 properties
- Clunies Ross Street13 properties
- Daley Road15 properties
- Dickson Road3 properties
- East Road4 properties
- Eggleston Road3 properties
- Ellery Crescent13 properties
- Fellows Road19 properties
- Frith Road1 property
- Garran Road16 properties
- John Cardiff Close1 property
- Kingsley Street11 properties
- Kuttabul Place1 property
- Lawson Crescent4 properties
- Lennox Crossing10 properties
- Linnaeus Way11 properties
- Liversidge Street95 properties
- Mccoy Circuit4 properties
- Mills Road9 properties
- North Road8 properties
- Rusty Robertson Place2 properties
- Science Road11 properties
- Sullivans Creek Road7 properties
- University Avenue17 properties
- Ward Road1 property
Neighbouring suburbs
Addresses and streets incorporate or were developed using G-NAF © Geoscape Australia, licensed by the Commonwealth of Australia under the Open Geo-coded National Address File (G-NAF) End User Licence Agreement.
Population and housing figures are drawn from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census of Population and Housing 2021, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International.
Area summaries are generated from the national address file and ABS Census data, and checked against those figures before publication.