--- title: "East Perth walkability score: 88/100 · How Walkable" description: "East Perth scores 88/100 for walkability (Very Walkable). What's within a walk, its street layout, and how it compares with the rest of Perth." url: https://howwalkable.com/cities/australia/perth/east-perth 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. [Perth](https://howwalkable.com/cities/australia/perth) 4. East Perth # How walkable is East Perth? By [Oscar Higson-Spence](https://howwalkable.com/about#author). Updated 22 October 2026 East Perth has a walkability score of 88 out of 100 across the 1 km around its centre, which makes it very walkable: most errands can be done on foot. It is the joint 4th most walkable of the 20 neighbourhoods ranked in Perth, with 1 other, which scores 75 as a whole. 88 out of 100: Very Walkable Most errands can be accomplished on foot. * #4 of 20 tied, in Perth * 75 Perth overall * 97 at the centre [Open on the map](https://howwalkable.com/?lat=-31.95434&lon=115.87789&q=East%20Perth%2C%20Perth) ## What's within walking distance 1,518 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the centre of East Perth. The nearest grocery is about 2 minutes away on foot. It earns full or nearly full points for groceries, restaurants & bars, shopping, coffee, banks, parks, books & libraries and culture & entertainment. ### Groceries 3.0 of 3 points * IGA Local Grocer East Perth, 2 min * Carlton Fresh, 12 min * Rise Supermarket, 14 min ### Restaurants & bars 3.0 of 3 points * Viet Royal Restaurant, 2 min * La Moon Thai Cuisine, 2 min * The Royal on the Waterfront, 3 min ### Shopping 2.0 of 2 points * Pharmacy 777 East Perth, 2 min * GreenCross Pharmacy, 2 min * Vintage Cellars, 2 min ### Coffee 2.0 of 2 points * Antico Caffe, 2 min * Toast, 3 min * Kinky Lizard Espresso Bar, 3 min ### Banks 1.0 of 1 point * Teachers Mutual Bank, 5 min * Bank of Queensland, 6 min * Commonwealth Bank East Perth Branch, 11 min ### Parks 1.0 of 1 point * Haig Park Place, 1 min * Pioneer Gardens, 2 min * Claisebrook Creek, 3 min ### Schools 0.5 of 1 point * Trinity College, 13 min * The Akidamy School of Early Learning, 17 min * CBD College Perth RTO:91399, 20 min ### Books & libraries 1.0 of 1 point * WA Department of Industry and Technology, 1 min * Western Australia - Minerals and Energy, 1 min * Child Education Services, 3 min ### Culture & entertainment 1.0 of 1 point * Girls School Cinema, 5 min * The Impossible Triangle, 5 min * The Actors' Hub Australia, 9 min Measured from the mapped centre of East Perth at -31.9543, 115.8779. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route. ## Street layout Within 800 m of the centre there are about 107 street intersections per km², and blocks average 71 m long. That is a well-connected street grid, so the score is not reduced. ## Walkability across East Perth ![Walkability scores across the 1 km around the centre of East Perth. 88% of points score 70 or more; the lowest, 40, is 1 km to the east.](https://howwalkable.com/maps/australia/perth/east-perth.svg?v=02f87574ab87) Each hexagon is the score at a point across the 1 km around the centre of East Perth. Rings mark 500 m and 1 km from the centre. Gaps are water or land without streets. ## Nearby neighbourhoods in Perth | Neighbourhood | Distance | Score | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------- | ----- | | [Burswood](https://howwalkable.com/cities/australia/perth/neighbourhoods#burswood) | 1.9 km | 67 | | [Northbridge](https://howwalkable.com/cities/australia/perth/neighbourhoods#northbridge) | 2.1 km | 98 | | [Victoria Park](https://howwalkable.com/cities/australia/perth/neighbourhoods#victoria-park) | 2.6 km | 88 | | [Mount Lawley](https://howwalkable.com/cities/australia/perth/neighbourhoods#mount-lawley) | 2.9 km | 83 | | [Maylands](https://howwalkable.com/cities/australia/perth/neighbourhoods#maylands) | 2.9 km | 63 | | [South Perth](https://howwalkable.com/cities/australia/perth/south-perth) | 3.2 km | 76 | | [Leederville](https://howwalkable.com/cities/australia/perth/leederville) | 4.2 km | 91 | | [West Leederville](https://howwalkable.com/cities/australia/perth/neighbourhoods#west-leederville) | 4.7 km | 83 | See [all 20 neighbourhoods of Perth ranked by walkability](https://howwalkable.com/cities/australia/perth/neighbourhoods). ## Questions about walking in East Perth ### Is East Perth walkable? Yes. East Perth has a walkability score of 88 out of 100 across the 1 km around its centre, which makes it very walkable: most errands can be done on foot. ### Is East Perth more walkable than the rest of Perth? East Perth is more walkable than Perth as a whole: it scores 88, against 75 for the 5 km around Perth's centre. It is the joint 4th most walkable of the 20 neighbourhoods ranked in Perth, with 1 other on How Walkable. ### What are the most walkable neighbourhoods in Perth? Of the 20 Perth neighbourhoods on How Walkable, the most walkable are Northbridge (98), Subiaco (93) and Leederville (91). ### How is the walkability score of East Perth 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 East Perth it is the average of 50 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 East Perth?" 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.