How walkable is West End, Brisbane?
By Oscar Higson-Spence. Updated
West End has a walkability score of 91 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 5th most walkable of the 13 neighbourhoods ranked in Brisbane, which scores 82 as a whole.
What's within walking distance
1,491 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the centre of West End. The nearest grocery is about 7 minutes away on foot. It earns full or nearly full points for groceries, restaurants & bars, shopping, coffee, banks, schools and books & libraries.
Groceries
- ASN West End, 7 min
- Hong Lan Asian Foods & Seafoods, 8 min
Restaurants & bars
- CLOVE Burgers and Fried Chicken, 2 min
- Quan Thanh, 2 min
Shopping
- HOUSE - Albury, 1 min
- St Veronica Welfare Committee, 1 min
Coffee
- Sol Bread, 5 min
- The Twin, 5 min
Banks
- Teachers Mutual Bank, 6 min
- Firefighters Mutual Bank, 6 min
Parks
- Davies Park, 8 min
- West End Riverside Lands Park, 11 min
Schools
- West End State School, 6 min
- The Creche And Kindergarten, 7 min
Books & libraries
- The Book Merchant Jenkins, 7 min
- West End Library, 7 min
Culture & entertainment
- The Tanuki Lounge, 8 min
- Queensland Ballet, 10 min
Measured from the mapped centre of West End, Brisbane at -27.4833, 153.0075. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route.
Street layout
Within 800 m of the centre there are about 82 street intersections per km², and blocks average 93 m long. That is a well-connected street grid, so the score is not reduced.
Walkability across West End, 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 West End, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| South Bank | 1.5 km | 98 |
| Woolloongabba | 2.9 km | 94 |
| Spring Hill | 3 km | 97 |
| Red Hill | 3.2 km | 90 |
| Buranda | 3.6 km | 93 |
| Ithaca | 3.8 km | 87 |
| Stones Corner | 4 km | 90 |
| Newmarket | 5.2 km | 80 |
See all 13 neighbourhoods of Brisbane ranked by walkability.
Questions about walking in West End, Brisbane
Is West End walkable?
Yes. West End in Brisbane has a walkability score of 91 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 West End more walkable than the rest of Brisbane?
West End is more walkable than Brisbane as a whole: it scores 91, against 82 for the 5 km around Brisbane's centre. It is the 5th most walkable of the 13 neighbourhoods ranked in Brisbane 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 West End 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 West End 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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