Lawson (postcode: 2617) is a suburb in the Belconnen district of Canberra, located within the Australian Capital Territory, Australia.

Development was delayed by about two years by Commonwealth environmental clearance processes due to the presence of golden sun moth and native grassland.

[5] For the purposes of Australian Capital Territory elections for the ACT Legislative Assembly, Lawson is in the Ginninderra electorate.

The Ordovician age greywacke from the Pittman Formation is in the far south and east of Lawson, including a band of black Acton Shale.

On the west side of lake Ginninderra there is calcareous shale from the Canberra Formation in the north, Glebe Farm Adamellite intrusion in the centre and a porphyry of Green-grey Dacitic intrusive containing large white Feldspar crystals in the south.