How walkable is Albert Park, Melbourne?
By Oscar Higson-Spence. Updated
Albert Park has a walkability score of 89 out of 100 across the 950 m around its centre, which makes it very walkable: most errands can be done on foot. It is the joint 11th most walkable of the 20 neighbourhoods ranked in Melbourne, with 1 other, which scores 87 as a whole.
What's within walking distance
1,161 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the centre of Albert Park. The nearest grocery is about 8 minutes away on foot. It earns full or nearly full points for shopping, coffee, parks, schools and culture & entertainment.
Groceries
- Foodworks on Dundas Place, 8 min
- Roh's Food Store, 10 min
Restaurants & bars
- Albert Park Hotel, 7 min
- Pony Boy, 8 min
Shopping
- Julie Goodwin Couture, 6 min
- Headswitch, 7 min
Coffee
- Halcyon Days, 3 min
- Mr Danks Bar & Cafe, 8 min
Banks
- Bank of Queensland, 18 min
- Beyond Bank, 22 min
Parks
- Albert Park, 7 min
- Moubray Street Community Park and Community Garden, 9 min
Schools
- Middle Park Kindergarten, 6 min
- Albert Park Preschool Centre, 7 min
Books & libraries
- Albert Park Library, 7 min
- Avenue Bookstore, 8 min
Culture & entertainment
- Instinct Music, 11 min
- Temperance Hall, 16 min
Measured from the mapped centre of Albert Park, Melbourne at -37.8452, 144.9571. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route.
Street layout
Within 800 m of the centre there are about 154 street intersections per km², and blocks average 70 m long. That is a well-connected street grid, so the score is not reduced.
Walkability across Albert Park, Melbourne
- 90+
- 70–89
- 50–69
- 25–49
- 0–24
Each hexagon is the score at a point across the 950 m around the centre of Albert Park, Melbourne. Rings mark 500 m and 950 m from the centre. Gaps are water or land without streets.
Nearby neighbourhoods in Melbourne
| Neighbourhood | Distance | Score |
|---|---|---|
| South Melbourne | 1.3 km | 97 |
| Southbank | 2.3 km | 97 |
| Docklands | 3.4 km | 86 |
| Melbourne central business district | 3.5 km | 97 |
| Richmond | 4.9 km | 95 |
| Carlton | 5.1 km | 99 |
| Fitzroy | 5.3 km | 99 |
| North Melbourne | 5.3 km | 94 |
See all 20 neighbourhoods of Melbourne ranked by walkability.
Questions about walking in Albert Park, Melbourne
Is Albert Park walkable?
Yes. Albert Park in Melbourne has a walkability score of 89 out of 100 across the 950 m around its centre, which makes it very walkable: most errands can be done on foot.
Is Albert Park more walkable than the rest of Melbourne?
Albert Park is about as walkable as Melbourne as a whole: it scores 89, against 87 for the 5 km around Melbourne's centre. It is the joint 11th most walkable of the 20 neighbourhoods ranked in Melbourne, with 1 other on How Walkable.
What are the most walkable neighbourhoods in Melbourne?
Of the 20 Melbourne neighbourhoods on How Walkable, the most walkable are Fitzroy (99), Carlton (99) and Collingwood (98).
How is the walkability score of Albert Park 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 Albert Park it is the average of 57 points spread evenly across the 950 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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