Up Sticks
For anyone moving to Australia

Find your suburb in Australia

Scout suburbs by commute, lifestyle and budget from the other side of the world — so you land somewhere that already feels like home.

Coming soon · App Store
Up Sticks home screen over a map of Sydney, asking 'Where could you live?' with two paths: I'm exploring, or I know where I'm going

Three steps to a shortlist

No listings, no endless scrolling. Describe the life the suburb has to support, and let the search do the rest.

Adding the places you need to be near — a workplace in Warrawong within 25 minutes and Sydney within 65 minutes — each with a map preview
1

Anchor your week

Add every place someone has to reach regularly — work, school, family — and how long they'll travel to each.

Choosing what matters in a suburb: coastal area and train access marked essential, bus access marked important
2

Say what matters

Coast, trains, beaches, schools. Mark each one essential, important or nice to have — essentials filter, the rest shape the ranking.

Ranked matching suburbs led by Bellambi, showing travel time for each person, peak-hour figures, matched priorities, weekly rent and school counts
3

Get a ranked shortlist

Suburbs that clear your limits, ordered by fit, with real peak commute times for every person you added.

Scout, don't scroll

Search whole suburbs against what matters to you — schools, beaches, cafés, quiet — not one listing at a time.

Commute-aware

Real travel times to every place you added, including what the trip looks like in peak hour — not a straight-line radius.

Built for the move

Designed for scouting from afar — compare areas months ahead and arrive with a shortlist, not a blank map.

Browsing regions — Illawarra with 55 suburbs and Central Coast with 52 — each with a map, a description and matching lifestyle tags

Not sure where yet? Start with a region.

If you don't have an address to search around, explore Australia the way it actually divides up — by region, with the character of each one spelled out.

  • Curated regions with a map, a plain-English description and a suburb count.
  • Filter by what you need — coastal, train access, family friendly — and see which regions survive.
  • Favourite the ones worth a closer look and come back to them later.
A suburb page for Bellambi: a map of nearby suburbs marked A to K, and a 'where you could live' list showing travel times from each one

Know a suburb before you visit it

Every suburb carries the numbers you'd otherwise chase across a dozen government sites — plus the neighbours worth considering alongside it.

Rent per week Schools primary & secondary Median age Families as a share Housing mix Trains typical frequency
1000sof suburbs covered
Commute-firsttravel-time search
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