Carlton North is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria,
Australia, 4 km north from Melbourne's Central
Business District. The local government
areas for Carlton North are the Melbourne and
Yarra. At the 2011 Census, Carlton North had a
population of 6,220.

Its main commercial area of Carlton North is
along Rathdowne Street, which has numerous
cafés, restaurants, small fashion boutiques,
bookshops and other businesses.

Today, Carlton North, like other inner-northern
suburbs of Melbourne, contains a mixture of
white-collar professionals, bureaucrats and
academics.