--- title: "Unley, Adelaide walkability score: 93/100 · How Walkable" description: "Unley 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/unley 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. Unley # How walkable is Unley, Adelaide? By [Oscar Higson-Spence](https://howwalkable.com/about#author). Updated 22 October 2026 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. 93 out of 100: Walker's Paradise Daily errands do not require a car. * #2 of 20 tied, in Adelaide * 81 Adelaide overall * 100 at the centre [Open on the map](https://howwalkable.com/?lat=-34.94830&lon=138.60648&q=Unley%2C%20Adelaide) ## 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 3.0 of 3 points * Woolworths Unley, 5 min * Culture Shock Provisions, 5 min * Coles Unley, 5 min ### Restaurants & bars 3.0 of 3 points * Finos Fine Foods, 1 min * Greek Street, 1 min * Burger Incredible, 1 min ### Shopping 2.0 of 2 points * The New Guard, 1 min * The Gift Specialist, 1 min * Etienne, 1 min ### Coffee 2.0 of 2 points * Grind Roast Masters, 1 min * Pickle in the Middle, 1 min * A Mother's Milk, 2 min ### Banks 1.0 of 1 point * ANZ, 1 min * Westpac Branch Unley, 3 min * Commonwealth Bank Unley Branch, 4 min ### Parks 1.0 of 1 point * Morrie Harrell Playground, 4 min * Soldiers' Memorial Gardens, 6 min * Village Green, 6 min ### Schools 1.0 of 1 point * Cedars Montessori Preschool, 5 min * Unley Kindergarten, 6 min * Kindergym Unley, 7 min ### Books & libraries 1.0 of 1 point * Unley Library, 5 min * Genealogy SA, 9 min * Dymocks Hyde Park, 13 min ### Culture & entertainment 1.0 of 1 point * Goodwood Zoo, 5 min * 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 ![Walkability scores across the 700 m around the centre of Unley. 100% of points score 70 or more; the lowest, 81, is 600 m to the north-east.](https://howwalkable.com/maps/australia/adelaide/unley.svg?v=2e08ba189ad3) 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](https://howwalkable.com/cities/australia/adelaide/neighbourhoods#goodwood) | 1.3 km | 95 | | [Wayville](https://howwalkable.com/cities/australia/adelaide/neighbourhoods#wayville) | 1.4 km | 92 | | [Millswood](https://howwalkable.com/cities/australia/adelaide/neighbourhoods#millswood) | 1.8 km | 79 | | [Fullarton](https://howwalkable.com/cities/australia/adelaide/neighbourhoods#fullarton) | 1.9 km | 72 | | [Kings Park](https://howwalkable.com/cities/australia/adelaide/neighbourhoods#kings-park) | 2.1 km | 66 | | [Forestville](https://howwalkable.com/cities/australia/adelaide/neighbourhoods#forestville) | 2.4 km | 78 | | [Glenunga](https://howwalkable.com/cities/australia/adelaide/neighbourhoods#glenunga) | 3 km | 81 | | [Linden Park](https://howwalkable.com/cities/australia/adelaide/neighbourhoods#linden-park) | 3.8 km | 80 | See [all 20 neighbourhoods of Adelaide ranked by walkability](https://howwalkable.com/cities/australia/adelaide/neighbourhoods). ## 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](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 Unley, 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.