Acton (postcode: 2601) is a suburb of Canberra,
ACT, Australia. Acton covers an area west of the
CBD, bordered by Black Mountain to the west and
Lake Burley Griffin in the south. The Australian
National University campus covers most of the
suburb, though also located in Acton is the
National Film and Sound Archive, a branch of the
CSIRO and the National Museum of Australia.

The population of Acton on census night 2011 was
1993 people, mostly students living at the
Australian National University.