Cars from Queanbeyan in southern New South Wales are more likely to collide with wildlife than those from any other postcode in Australia, insurance data suggests.

Car owners with the postcode 2620 topped a national list compiled by AAMI of reported accidents involving animals – mainly kangaroos.

The NSW postcode covering Goulburn, 2580, ranked second.

AAMI spokesman Reuben Aitchison said the Queanbeyan postcode, which takes in parts of the ACT, produced 276 claims for animal collisions last year.

"Through the years Queanbeyan – both the NSW and ACT parts – has topped the charts by quite a large margin, almost twice as much as the next listed area," he said.

Most accidents involved cars hitting kangaroos.

"We did a really thorough breakdown a few years back for a Discovery Channel documentary on the issue and found that, from about 500 animal collisions that we analysed, 444 were kangaroos," said Mr Aitchison.

"The remainder were a few wombats, some wallabies, two koalas and a flock of galahs."

National AAMI animal collision reports:

Areas Postcode Collision claims Queanbeyan (NSW/ACT) 2620 276 Goulburn (NSW) 2580 173 Singleton (NSW) 2330 152 Dingo (Qld) 4702 150 Charters Towers (Qld) 4820 140

In Canberra, the worst hotspots for accidents involving animals occurred in the central suburbs covered by postcode 2600, followed by Weston Creek, 2611.