How walkable is Red Hill, Brisbane?
By Oscar Higson-Spence. Updated
Red Hill has a walkability score of 90 out of 100 across the 1 km around its centre, which makes it a Walker's Paradise, where daily errands do not require a car. It is the joint 6th most walkable of the 13 neighbourhoods ranked in Brisbane, with 1 other, which scores 82 as a whole.
What's within walking distance
994 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the centre of Red Hill. The nearest grocery is about a minute away on foot. It earns full or nearly full points for groceries, restaurants & bars, shopping, coffee and culture & entertainment.
Groceries
- Woolworths, 12 min
- Woolworths Paddington, 17 min
Restaurants & bars
- Mamm's Thai Noodles 'n' Rice, 1 min
- La Vosh Patisserie, 1 min
Shopping
- Bobbie Dogs, 1 min
- BLOW Woodwind and Brass, 2 min
Coffee
- Lilgypsyvan, 5 min
- Loverboy Cafe, 5 min
Banks
- ANZ, 13 min
- Commonwealth Bank, 13 min
Parks
- McCaskie Park, 8 min
- Sweetman Street Park, 11 min
Schools
- Petrie Terrace State School, 11 min
- Kelvin Grove State College, 14 min
Books & libraries
- QUT Kelvin Grove Library, 16 min
- Scrumptious Reads, 16 min
Culture & entertainment
- SDCC Brisbane Open Mic, 14 min
- Room to Play Independent Theatre, 14 min
Measured from the mapped centre of Red Hill, Brisbane at -27.4545, 153.0071. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route.
Street layout
Within 800 m of the centre there are about 119 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 Red Hill, Brisbane
- 90+
- 70–89
- 50–69
- 25–49
- 0–24
Each hexagon is the score at a point across the 1 km around the centre of Red Hill, Brisbane. Rings mark 500 m and 1 km from the centre. Gaps are water or land without streets.
Nearby neighbourhoods in Brisbane
| Neighbourhood | Distance | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Ithaca | 1.1 km | 87 |
| Spring Hill | 2 km | 97 |
| Newmarket | 2 km | 80 |
| South Bank | 2.7 km | 98 |
| West End | 3.2 km | 91 |
| Albion | 4.4 km | 85 |
| Woolloongabba | 4.5 km | 94 |
| Hawthorne | 5.3 km | 79 |
See all 13 neighbourhoods of Brisbane ranked by walkability.
Questions about walking in Red Hill, Brisbane
Is Red Hill walkable?
Yes. Red Hill in Brisbane has a walkability score of 90 out of 100 across the 1 km around its centre, which makes it a Walker's Paradise, where daily errands do not require a car.
Is Red Hill more walkable than the rest of Brisbane?
Red Hill is more walkable than Brisbane as a whole: it scores 90, against 82 for the 5 km around Brisbane's centre. It is the joint 6th most walkable of the 13 neighbourhoods ranked in Brisbane, with 1 other on How Walkable.
What are the most walkable neighbourhoods in Brisbane?
Of the 13 Brisbane neighbourhoods on How Walkable, the most walkable are South Bank (98), Spring Hill (97) and Woolloongabba (94).
How is the walkability score of Red Hill 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 Red Hill it is the average of 61 points spread evenly across the 1 km 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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