The Hoddle Grid is the layout of the streets in the central business district of Melbourne, Australia.

Named after its designer, Robert Hoddle, the Grid was laid out in 1837. All major streets are one and half chains in width, while all blocks are exactly 10 chains square. It is one mile long by half a mile wide, and oriented with its long axis rotated 28 degrees counterclockwise of the east-west direction, to align better with the course of the Yarra River.

While the survey plan has proved, in time, to be far sighted for public utility, at the time Hoddle's instructions from Governor Gipps were more prosaic. Land allotments for sale at public auction were to be produced as quickly as possible to deliver to the market. Gipps also insisted that all towns laid out during his term of office should have no public squares included within their boundaries being convinced that they only encouraged democracy.

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