How walkable is Unley, Adelaide?
By Oscar Higson-Spence. Updated
Unley has a walkability score of 93 out of 100 across the 700 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.
What's within walking distance
828 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the centre of Unley. The nearest grocery is about 5 minutes away on foot. Every category earns full or nearly full points.
Groceries
- Culture Shock Provisions, 5 min
- Coles Unley, 5 min
Restaurants & bars
- Greek Street, 1 min
- Burger Incredible, 1 min
Shopping
- The Gift Specialist, 1 min
- Etienne, 1 min
Coffee
- Pickle in the Middle, 1 min
- A Mother's Milk, 2 min
Banks
- Westpac Branch Unley, 3 min
- Commonwealth Bank Unley Branch, 4 min
Parks
- Soldiers' Memorial Gardens, 6 min
- Village Green, 6 min
Schools
- Unley Kindergarten, 6 min
- Kindergym Unley, 7 min
Books & libraries
- Genealogy SA, 9 min
- Dymocks Hyde Park, 13 min
Culture & entertainment
- Unley Museum, 7 min
- Jet Flight Simulator, 10 min
Measured from the mapped centre of Unley, Adelaide at -34.9483, 138.6065. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route.
Street layout
Within 800 m of the centre there are about 90 street intersections per km², and blocks average 96 m long. That is a well-connected street grid, so the score is not reduced.
Walkability across Unley, Adelaide
- 90+
- 70–89
- 50–69
- 25–49
- 0–24
Each hexagon is the score at a point across the 700 m around the centre of Unley, Adelaide. Rings mark 350 m and 700 m from the centre. Gaps are water or land without streets.
Nearby neighbourhoods in Adelaide
| Neighbourhood | Distance | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Goodwood | 1.3 km | 95 |
| Wayville | 1.4 km | 92 |
| Millswood | 1.8 km | 79 |
| Fullarton | 1.9 km | 72 |
| Kings Park | 2.1 km | 66 |
| Forestville | 2.4 km | 78 |
| Glenunga | 3 km | 81 |
| Linden Park | 3.8 km | 80 |
See all 20 neighbourhoods of Adelaide ranked by walkability.
Questions about walking in Unley, Adelaide
Is Unley walkable?
Yes. Unley in Adelaide has a walkability score of 93 out of 100 across the 700 m around its centre, which makes it a Walker's Paradise, where daily errands do not require a car.
Is Unley more walkable than the rest of Adelaide?
Unley 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 Unley 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 Unley it is the average of 61 points spread evenly across the 700 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. Places from Overture Maps release 2026-09-23.1. Neighbourhood position from Overture Maps, name from Wikidata.
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