--- title: "Hindmarsh, Adelaide walkability score: 93/100 · How Walkable" description: "Hindmarsh in Adelaide scores 93/100 for walkability (Walker's Paradise). What's within a walk, its street layout, and how it compares with the rest of Adelaide." url: https://howwalkable.com/cities/australia/adelaide/hindmarsh updated: 2026-10-22 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ --- 1. [Cities](https://howwalkable.com/cities) 2. [Australia](https://howwalkable.com/cities/australia) 3. [Adelaide](https://howwalkable.com/cities/australia/adelaide) 4. Hindmarsh # How walkable is Hindmarsh, Adelaide? By [Oscar Higson-Spence](https://howwalkable.com/about#author). Updated 22 October 2026 Hindmarsh has a walkability score of 93 out of 100 across the 550 m around its centre, which makes it a Walker's Paradise, where daily errands do not require a car. It is the joint 2nd most walkable of the 20 neighbourhoods ranked in Adelaide, with 1 other, which scores 81 as a whole. 93 out of 100: Walker's Paradise Daily errands do not require a car. * #2 of 20 tied, in Adelaide * 81 Adelaide overall * 97 at the centre [Open on the map](https://howwalkable.com/?lat=-34.90662&lon=138.56995&q=Hindmarsh%2C%20Adelaide) ## What's within walking distance 695 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the centre of Hindmarsh. The nearest grocery is about 3 minutes away on foot. It earns full or nearly full points for groceries, restaurants & bars, shopping, coffee, banks, books & libraries and culture & entertainment. ### Groceries 3.0 of 3 points * Peter's Delicatessens, 3 min * Morgan Friendly Grocer, 8 min * IGA Local Grocer Bowden, 13 min ### Restaurants & bars 3.0 of 3 points * The Land of Promise Hotel, 3 min * Whiskey Den Hindmarsh, 4 min * Houda's Kitchen, 4 min ### Shopping 2.0 of 2 points * DIY I.T. Supply, 1 min * Clipon Flyscreens, 1 min * Leg Aids, 1 min ### Coffee 2.0 of 2 points * Charlie West Cafe, 3 min * Pony and Cole, 4 min * Coffee in Common, 5 min ### Banks 1.0 of 1 point * Commonwealth Bank, 4 min * Commonwealth Bank Hindmarsh Branch, 4 min * Westpac Branch/ATM, 4 min ### Parks 0.9 of 1 point * Langman Reserve, 10 min * McDonnelle Reserve, 10 min * Bowden Village Reserve, 12 min ### Schools 0.7 of 1 point * St Josephs School, 11 min * Immaculate Heart of Mary Primary School, 23 min * Allenby Gardens Primary School, 25 min ### Books & libraries 1.0 of 1 point * Hindmarsh Library, 6 min * Charles Sturt Library Service, 6 min * Gibson Street Book Exchange, 17 min ### Culture & entertainment 1.0 of 1 point * Hindmarsh Fire and Folk Museum, 2 min * Holden Street Theatres, 5 min * Red Phoenix Theatre, 5 min Measured from the mapped centre of Hindmarsh, Adelaide at -34.9066, 138.5700. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route. ## Street layout Within 800 m of the centre there are about 107 street intersections per km², and blocks average 89 m long. That is a well-connected street grid, so the score is not reduced. ## Walkability across Hindmarsh, Adelaide ![Walkability scores across the 550 m around the centre of Hindmarsh. 100% of points score 70 or more; the lowest, 83, is 550 m to the south-east.](https://howwalkable.com/maps/australia/adelaide/hindmarsh.svg?v=4fb9996b5b6f) Each hexagon is the score at a point across the 550 m around the centre of Hindmarsh, Adelaide. Rings mark 250 m and 550 m from the centre. Gaps are water or land without streets. ## Nearby neighbourhoods in Adelaide | Neighbourhood | Distance | Score | | ------------------------------------------------------------------ | -------- | ----- | | [Thebarton](https://howwalkable.com/cities/australia/adelaide/neighbourhoods#thebarton) | 1 km | 84 | | [Welland](https://howwalkable.com/cities/australia/adelaide/neighbourhoods#welland) | 1.1 km | 90 | | [Devon Park](https://howwalkable.com/cities/australia/adelaide/neighbourhoods#devon-park) | 2.3 km | 68 | | [North Adelaide](https://howwalkable.com/cities/australia/adelaide/north-adelaide) | 2.3 km | 81 | | [Hilton](https://howwalkable.com/cities/australia/adelaide/neighbourhoods#hilton) | 2.9 km | 86 | | [Medindie](https://howwalkable.com/cities/australia/adelaide/neighbourhoods#medindie) | 3.4 km | 65 | | [Prospect](https://howwalkable.com/cities/australia/adelaide/prospect) | 3.4 km | 83 | | [Gilberton](https://howwalkable.com/cities/australia/adelaide/neighbourhoods#gilberton) | 4 km | 76 | See [all 20 neighbourhoods of Adelaide ranked by walkability](https://howwalkable.com/cities/australia/adelaide/neighbourhoods). ## Questions about walking in Hindmarsh, Adelaide ### Is Hindmarsh walkable? Yes. Hindmarsh in Adelaide has a walkability score of 93 out of 100 across the 550 m around its centre, which makes it a Walker's Paradise, where daily errands do not require a car. ### Is Hindmarsh more walkable than the rest of Adelaide? Hindmarsh is more walkable than Adelaide as a whole: it scores 93, against 81 for the 5 km around Adelaide's centre. It is the joint 2nd most walkable of the 20 neighbourhoods ranked in Adelaide, with 1 other on How Walkable. ### What are the most walkable neighbourhoods in Adelaide? Of the 20 Adelaide neighbourhoods on How Walkable, the most walkable are Goodwood (95), Unley (93) and Hindmarsh (93). ### How is the walkability score of Hindmarsh calculated? The score counts groceries, restaurants, shops, cafés, banks, parks, schools, libraries and cultural venues within a 30 minute walk, gives nearer places more weight, and deducts up to 20% where streets are sparse or blocks are long. For Hindmarsh it is the average of 61 points spread evenly across the 550 m around its mapped centre, leaving out water and land without streets, using open map data from Overture Maps and OpenStreetMap. It measures what is within a walk, not what the walk is like: pavements, traffic, safety, hills and heat are not part of the score. This page is generated from open map data with a published walkability method, explained in the [methodology](https://howwalkable.com/methodology). Places from Overture Maps release 2026-09-23.1. Neighbourhood position from Overture Maps, name from Wikidata. Ask about walking anywhere in ChatGPT with the [How Walkable app](https://chatgpt.com/plugins/plugin_asdk_app_6accc634bcf8819189c1bcaf0e227f0f), for example "How walkable is Hindmarsh, Adelaide?" Scores, rankings and text by How Walkable (https://howwalkable.com), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); credit How Walkable and link to this page when reusing them.