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How walkable is Avoca, Durban?
By Oscar Higson-Spence. Updated
Avoca has a walkability score of 37 out of 100 across the 1 km around its centre, which makes it car-dependent: most errands require a car. It is the 9th most walkable of the 16 neighbourhoods ranked in Durban, which scores 68 as a whole.
What's within walking distance
74 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the centre of Avoca. The nearest grocery is about 14 minutes away on foot. It is weakest for restaurants & bars, coffee, banks and culture & entertainment.
Groceries
- Top of the Rock Parking, 19 min
- Usave, 21 min
Restaurants & bars
- McDonald's, 22 min
- Legacy Lounge, 22 min
Shopping
- Arcadia Butchery, 12 min
- Zip-Code Clothing, 15 min
Coffee
Banks
Parks
Schools
- Avoca Secondary School, 14 min
- Ndovela Creche, 16 min
Books & libraries
Culture & entertainment
Measured from the mapped centre of Avoca, Durban at -29.7708, 31.0167. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route.
Street layout
Within 800 m of the centre there are about 48 street intersections per km², and blocks average 125 m long. Sparser streets or longer blocks reduce the score by 3%, since they make walks longer than the straight-line distance suggests.
Walkability across Avoca, Durban
- 90+
- 70–89
- 50–69
- 25–49
- 0–24
Each hexagon is the score at a point across the 1 km around the centre of Avoca, Durban. Rings mark 500 m and 1 km from the centre. Gaps are water or land without streets.
Nearby neighbourhoods in Durban
| Neighbourhood | Distance | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Kenville | 1.7 km | 29 |
| Broadway | 2.8 km | 70 |
| Sea Cow Lake | 3.4 km | 33 |
| Athlone | 3.7 km | 57 |
| Sydenham | 6.8 km | 73 |
| Stamford Hill | 6.8 km | 71 |
| Overport | 7.2 km | 89 |
| Sherwood | 7.5 km | 61 |
See all 16 neighbourhoods of Durban ranked by walkability.
Questions about walking in Avoca, Durban
Is Avoca walkable?
Not very. Avoca in Durban has a walkability score of 37 out of 100 across the 1 km around its centre, which makes it car-dependent: most errands require a car.
Is Avoca more walkable than the rest of Durban?
Avoca is less walkable than Durban as a whole: it scores 37, against 68 for the 5 km around Durban's centre. It is the 9th most walkable of the 16 neighbourhoods ranked in Durban on How Walkable.
What are the most walkable neighbourhoods in Durban?
Of the 16 Durban neighbourhoods on How Walkable, the most walkable are Overport (89), Sydenham (73) and Stamford Hill (71).
How is the walkability score of Avoca 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 Avoca 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. Places from Overture Maps release 2026-09-23.1. Neighbourhood position from Overture Maps, name from Wikidata.
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