--- title: "Woolloongabba, Brisbane walkability score: 94/100" description: "Woolloongabba in Brisbane scores 94/100 for walkability (Walker's Paradise): what's within a walk and how it compares with Brisbane." url: https://howwalkable.com/cities/australia/brisbane/woolloongabba 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. Woolloongabba # How walkable is Woolloongabba, Brisbane? By [Oscar Higson-Spence](https://howwalkable.com/about#author). Updated 22 October 2026 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. 94 out of 100: Walker's Paradise Daily errands do not require a car. * #3 of 13 in Brisbane * 82 Brisbane overall * 96 at the centre [Open on the map](https://howwalkable.com/?lat=-27.48539&lon=153.03645&q=Woolloongabba%2C%20Brisbane) ## 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 3.0 of 3 points * Coles Local Woolloongabba, 4 min * IGA Rewards, 9 min * IGA X-press Woolloongabba, 12 min ### Restaurants & bars 3.0 of 3 points * Zum Kaiser Restaurant now at Neesh bar, 1 min * Zum Kaiser Restaurant, 2 min * Stickybeak Wine Bar, 2 min ### Shopping 2.0 of 2 points * Lions Shop, 2 min * Lions Shop @ Gabba, 2 min * Mimco, 2 min ### Coffee 2.0 of 2 points * Xchange Espresso, 2 min * Beartown Coffee House, 3 min * Gabi Cafe, 3 min ### Banks 1.0 of 1 point * ANZ, 5 min * Westpac ATM East Brisbane, 15 min * Suncorp Bank ATM, 16 min ### Parks 1.0 of 1 point * Woolloongabba Place Park, 1 min * Jurgens Street Park, 4 min * Raymond Park, 8 min ### Schools 0.9 of 1 point * GrowingTree Early Education, 6 min * Nazareth Community Kindergarten and Preschool, 6 min * St Joseph's Primary School, 8 min ### Books & libraries 0.7 of 1 point * Koorong Woolloongabba, 10 min * Mathew Hale Public Library, 14 min * UQ/Mater McAuley Library, 15 min ### Culture & entertainment 0.7 of 1 point * The Cave Inn, 10 min * 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 ![Walkability scores across the 900 m around the centre of Woolloongabba. 100% of points score 70 or more; the lowest, 81, is 900 m to the east.](https://howwalkable.com/maps/australia/brisbane/woolloongabba.svg?v=b0ee52418846) 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](https://howwalkable.com/cities/australia/brisbane/neighbourhoods#buranda) | 1.2 km | 93 | | [Stones Corner](https://howwalkable.com/cities/australia/brisbane/neighbourhoods#stones-corner) | 1.7 km | 90 | | [South Bank](https://howwalkable.com/cities/australia/brisbane/south-bank) | 1.9 km | 98 | | [Coorparoo](https://howwalkable.com/cities/australia/brisbane/neighbourhoods#coorparoo) | 2.5 km | 86 | | [Norman Park](https://howwalkable.com/cities/australia/brisbane/neighbourhoods#norman-park) | 2.8 km | 67 | | [West End](https://howwalkable.com/cities/australia/brisbane/west-end) | 2.9 km | 91 | | [Spring Hill](https://howwalkable.com/cities/australia/brisbane/spring-hill) | 2.9 km | 97 | | [Hawthorne](https://howwalkable.com/cities/australia/brisbane/neighbourhoods#hawthorne) | 3.5 km | 79 | See [all 13 neighbourhoods of Brisbane ranked by walkability](https://howwalkable.com/cities/australia/brisbane/neighbourhoods). ## 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](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 Woolloongabba, Brisbane?" 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