--- title: "West End, Brisbane walkability score: 91/100 · How Walkable" description: "West End in Brisbane scores 91/100 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/west-end 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. West End # How walkable is West End, Brisbane? By [Oscar Higson-Spence](https://howwalkable.com/about#author). Updated 22 October 2026 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. 91 out of 100: Walker's Paradise Daily errands do not require a car. * #5 of 13 in Brisbane * 82 Brisbane overall * 96 at the centre [Open on the map](https://howwalkable.com/?lat=-27.48330&lon=153.00750&q=West%20End%2C%20Brisbane) ## 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 2.7 of 3 points * Aldi, 7 min * ASN West End, 7 min * Hong Lan Asian Foods & Seafoods, 8 min ### Restaurants & bars 3.0 of 3 points * Okami Japanese Restaurant, 1 min * CLOVE Burgers and Fried Chicken, 2 min * Quan Thanh, 2 min ### Shopping 2.0 of 2 points * HOUSE, 1 min * HOUSE - Albury, 1 min * St Veronica Welfare Committee, 1 min ### Coffee 2.0 of 2 points * Meeple and Mug - board game cafe, 2 min * Sol Bread, 5 min * The Twin, 5 min ### Banks 0.9 of 1 point * Health Professionals Bank, 6 min * Teachers Mutual Bank, 6 min * Firefighters Mutual Bank, 6 min ### Parks 0.9 of 1 point * Bunyapa Park, 7 min * Davies Park, 8 min * West End Riverside Lands Park, 11 min ### Schools 1.0 of 1 point * C&K West End Community Kindergarten & Preschool, 4 min * West End State School, 6 min * The Creche And Kindergarten, 7 min ### Books & libraries 0.9 of 1 point * The Language People, 6 min * The Book Merchant Jenkins, 7 min * West End Library, 7 min ### Culture & entertainment 0.9 of 1 point * The Sideshow, 7 min * 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 ![Walkability scores across the 1 km around the centre of West End. 91% of points score 70 or more; the lowest, 65, is 1000 m to the south-east.](https://howwalkable.com/maps/australia/brisbane/west-end.svg?v=fb24e724945c) 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](https://howwalkable.com/cities/australia/brisbane/south-bank) | 1.5 km | 98 | | [Woolloongabba](https://howwalkable.com/cities/australia/brisbane/woolloongabba) | 2.9 km | 94 | | [Spring Hill](https://howwalkable.com/cities/australia/brisbane/spring-hill) | 3 km | 97 | | [Red Hill](https://howwalkable.com/cities/australia/brisbane/red-hill) | 3.2 km | 90 | | [Buranda](https://howwalkable.com/cities/australia/brisbane/neighbourhoods#buranda) | 3.6 km | 93 | | [Ithaca](https://howwalkable.com/cities/australia/brisbane/neighbourhoods#ithaca) | 3.8 km | 87 | | [Stones Corner](https://howwalkable.com/cities/australia/brisbane/neighbourhoods#stones-corner) | 4 km | 90 | | [Newmarket](https://howwalkable.com/cities/australia/brisbane/neighbourhoods#newmarket) | 5.2 km | 80 | See [all 13 neighbourhoods of Brisbane ranked by walkability](https://howwalkable.com/cities/australia/brisbane/neighbourhoods). ## 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](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 West End, 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.