--- title: "Red Hill, Brisbane walkability score: 90/100 · How Walkable" description: "Red Hill in Brisbane scores 90/100 for walkability (Walker's Paradise). What's within a walk, its street layout, and how it compares with the rest of Brisbane." url: https://howwalkable.com/cities/australia/brisbane/red-hill 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. [Brisbane](https://howwalkable.com/cities/australia/brisbane) 4. Red Hill # How walkable is Red Hill, Brisbane? By [Oscar Higson-Spence](https://howwalkable.com/about#author). Updated 22 October 2026 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. 90 out of 100: Walker's Paradise Daily errands do not require a car. * #6 of 13 tied, in Brisbane * 82 Brisbane overall * 91 at the centre [Open on the map](https://howwalkable.com/?lat=-27.45452&lon=153.00714&q=Red%20Hill%2C%20Brisbane) ## 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 3.0 of 3 points * Spar Express, 1 min * Woolworths, 12 min * Woolworths Paddington, 17 min ### Restaurants & bars 3.0 of 3 points * Nono's, 1 min * Mamm's Thai Noodles 'n' Rice, 1 min * La Vosh Patisserie, 1 min ### Shopping 2.0 of 2 points * Windsor Road Pharmacy, 1 min * Bobbie Dogs, 1 min * BLOW Woodwind and Brass, 2 min ### Coffee 2.0 of 2 points * Align Coffee, 1 min * Lilgypsyvan, 5 min * Loverboy Cafe, 5 min ### Banks 0.6 of 1 point * Bank of Queensland, 11 min * ANZ, 13 min * Commonwealth Bank, 13 min ### Parks 0.9 of 1 point * Marshall Park, 7 min * McCaskie Park, 8 min * Sweetman Street Park, 11 min ### Schools 0.7 of 1 point * Red Hill Kindergarten & Preschool, 9 min * Petrie Terrace State School, 11 min * Kelvin Grove State College, 14 min ### Books & libraries 0.5 of 1 point * QUT Kelvin Grove Bookshop, 15 min * QUT Kelvin Grove Library, 16 min * Scrumptious Reads, 16 min ### Culture & entertainment 1.0 of 1 point * Red Hill Cinemas, 5 min * 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 ![Walkability scores across the 1 km around the centre of Red Hill. 100% of points score 70 or more; the lowest, 77, is 1000 m to the north-west.](https://howwalkable.com/maps/australia/brisbane/red-hill.svg?v=0d9a8b6aa9c9) 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](https://howwalkable.com/cities/australia/brisbane/neighbourhoods#ithaca) | 1.1 km | 87 | | [Spring Hill](https://howwalkable.com/cities/australia/brisbane/spring-hill) | 2 km | 97 | | [Newmarket](https://howwalkable.com/cities/australia/brisbane/neighbourhoods#newmarket) | 2 km | 80 | | [South Bank](https://howwalkable.com/cities/australia/brisbane/south-bank) | 2.7 km | 98 | | [West End](https://howwalkable.com/cities/australia/brisbane/west-end) | 3.2 km | 91 | | [Albion](https://howwalkable.com/cities/australia/brisbane/neighbourhoods#albion) | 4.4 km | 85 | | [Woolloongabba](https://howwalkable.com/cities/australia/brisbane/woolloongabba) | 4.5 km | 94 | | [Hawthorne](https://howwalkable.com/cities/australia/brisbane/neighbourhoods#hawthorne) | 5.3 km | 79 | See [all 13 neighbourhoods of Brisbane ranked by walkability](https://howwalkable.com/cities/australia/brisbane/neighbourhoods). ## 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](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 Red Hill, Brisbane?" 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.