Fitzroy North is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 4 km north-east from Melbourne's central business district.

Its Local Government Areas are the Cities of Yarra and Moreland. The size of Fitzroy North is approximately 2 km². It has 9 parks covering nearly 10% of the total area. At the 2006 Census, Fitzroy North had a population of 11,069.

Merri Creek delineates the border between Fitzroy North and the neighbouring suburb of Northcote, whilst Smith Street and Queen's Parade form the border with Clifton Hill.

Housing stock includes many fine one and two storey terraces, many dating to the late Victorian period and including characteristic ironwork, verandahs, and stone embellishments. This is one of Melbourne's finest, and most expensive, inner-city locations.

There is a large park, Edinburgh Gardens with a famous football oval, bordered by Freeman Street, Brunswick Street, St. Georges Road and Alfred Crescent. The Brunswick Street Oval was the home ground until 1967 of the Fitzroy Football Club playing in the Victorian Football League.

A linear park, incorporating a section of the Capital City Trail bike path, runs along much of the northern edge of the suburb, on the easement for the Inner Circle railway line, which closed in 1948.

Residential Architecture

Most of Fitzroy North is single and double storey Victorian and Edwardian housing, comprising rows of terraces with a mixture of semi-attached and freestanding houses on small to moderately sized blocks. Large parts of the suburb are protected by heritage controls. The suburb is relatively intact and consistent in character, having had far less industrial and commercial development in its formative years than its southern namesake.

Fitzroy North also has some distinctive apartment complexes, mostly built within the last 15 years. Another, on St Georges Road at Park Street, is a redevelopment of the old Fire Station, with an extension at the back reminiscent of three concrete grain silos.

Commerce

The main commercial activity in Fitzroy North is on Brunswick Street, St. Georges Road and the northern side of Queen's Parade, the latter having particularly wide footpaths for a Melbourne commercial strip. Piedimontes, at the corner of St. Georges Road and Scotchmer Street is a well-established independent supermarket well-known for its continental delicatessen.

Transport

To get to North Fitzroy from the Melbourne CBD, you can travel on the:

• Number 96 tram from Bourke Street, along Nicholson Street or the
• Number 112 tram from Collins Street, along Brunswick Street and St. Georges Road , or the more "colourful" route on
• Number 86 tram from Bourke Street, which also travels a short distance along Nicholson Street, turns at Gertrude Street, turns again into Smith Street and again into Queens Parade.
• Alternatively, take the train to Rushall Station, on the Epping Line. Rushall Station is located on Rushall Crescent, in the north east of the suburb.

Education

Fitzroy High School

The suburb contains three schools - Fitzroy High School, Fitzroy Community School and North Fitzroy Primary School. North Fitzroy Primary School has received state media attention for its canteen's healthy menu. There are also 4 childcare centres.