How walkable is Woolloongabba, Brisbane?
By Oscar Higson-Spence. Updated
Woolloongabba has a walkability score of 94 out of 100 across the 900 m around its centre, which makes it a Walker's Paradise, where daily errands do not require a car. It is the 3rd most walkable of the 13 neighbourhoods ranked in Brisbane, which scores 82 as a whole.
What's within walking distance
1,383 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the centre of Woolloongabba. The nearest grocery is about 4 minutes away on foot. It earns full or nearly full points for groceries, restaurants & bars, shopping, coffee, banks, parks and schools.
Groceries
- IGA Rewards, 9 min
- IGA X-press Woolloongabba, 12 min
Restaurants & bars
- Zum Kaiser Restaurant, 2 min
- Stickybeak Wine Bar, 2 min
Shopping
- Lions Shop @ Gabba, 2 min
- Mimco, 2 min
Coffee
- Beartown Coffee House, 3 min
- Gabi Cafe, 3 min
Banks
- Westpac ATM East Brisbane, 15 min
- Suncorp Bank ATM, 16 min
Parks
- Jurgens Street Park, 4 min
- Raymond Park, 8 min
Schools
- Nazareth Community Kindergarten and Preschool, 6 min
- St Joseph's Primary School, 8 min
Books & libraries
- Mathew Hale Public Library, 14 min
- UQ/Mater McAuley Library, 15 min
Culture & entertainment
- Mowbraytown Photographic Museum & Gallery, 11 min
- Season Three, 11 min
Measured from the mapped centre of Woolloongabba, Brisbane at -27.4854, 153.0365. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route.
Street layout
Within 800 m of the centre there are about 116 street intersections per km², and blocks average 81 m long. That is a well-connected street grid, so the score is not reduced.
Walkability across Woolloongabba, Brisbane
- 90+
- 70–89
- 50–69
- 25–49
- 0–24
Each hexagon is the score at a point across the 900 m around the centre of Woolloongabba, Brisbane. Rings mark 450 m and 900 m from the centre. Gaps are water or land without streets.
Nearby neighbourhoods in Brisbane
| Neighbourhood | Distance | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Buranda | 1.2 km | 93 |
| Stones Corner | 1.7 km | 90 |
| South Bank | 1.9 km | 98 |
| Coorparoo | 2.5 km | 86 |
| Norman Park | 2.8 km | 67 |
| West End | 2.9 km | 91 |
| Spring Hill | 2.9 km | 97 |
| Hawthorne | 3.5 km | 79 |
See all 13 neighbourhoods of Brisbane ranked by walkability.
Questions about walking in Woolloongabba, Brisbane
Is Woolloongabba walkable?
Yes. Woolloongabba in Brisbane has a walkability score of 94 out of 100 across the 900 m around its centre, which makes it a Walker's Paradise, where daily errands do not require a car.
Is Woolloongabba more walkable than the rest of Brisbane?
Woolloongabba is more walkable than Brisbane as a whole: it scores 94, against 82 for the 5 km around Brisbane's centre. It is the 3rd 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 Woolloongabba 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 Woolloongabba it is the average of 61 points spread evenly across the 900 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. Places from Overture Maps release 2026-09-23.1. Neighbourhood position from Overture Maps, name from Wikidata.
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