--- title: "Avoca, Durban walkability score: 37/100 · How Walkable" description: "Avoca in Durban scores 37/100 for walkability (Car-Dependent). What's within a walk, its street layout, and how it compares with the rest of Durban." url: https://howwalkable.com/cities/south-africa/durban/avoca updated: 2026-10-22 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ --- 1. [Cities](https://howwalkable.com/cities) 2. [South Africa](https://howwalkable.com/cities/south-africa) 3. [Durban](https://howwalkable.com/cities/south-africa/durban) 4. Avoca # How walkable is Avoca, Durban? By [Oscar Higson-Spence](https://howwalkable.com/about#author). Updated 22 October 2026 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. 37 out of 100: Car-Dependent Most errands require a car. * #9 of 16 in Durban * 68 Durban overall * 30 at the centre [Open on the map](https://howwalkable.com/?lat=-29.77083&lon=31.01667&q=Avoca%2C%20Durban) ## 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 1.3 of 3 points * Located behind Maharajhs Prayer Shop, 14 min * Top of the Rock Parking, 19 min * Usave, 21 min ### Restaurants & bars 0.2 of 3 points * Reddy's House of Curries, 19 min * McDonald's, 22 min * Legacy Lounge, 22 min ### Shopping 1.1 of 2 points * Game, 8 min * Arcadia Butchery, 12 min * Zip-Code Clothing, 15 min ### Coffee 0.0 of 2 points * Coffee Merchant, 30 min ### Banks 0.0 of 1 point * None within a 30 minute walk ### Parks 0.5 of 1 point * Unnamed park, 14 min ### Schools 0.8 of 1 point * Effingham Secondary School, 9 min * Avoca Secondary School, 14 min * Ndovela Creche, 16 min ### Books & libraries 0.6 of 1 point * Firwood Library, 12 min ### Culture & entertainment 0.1 of 1 point * Liberty Hall, 24 min 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 ![Walkability scores across the 1 km around the centre of Avoca. 0% of points score 70 or more; the lowest, 15, is 1000 m to the north-west.](https://howwalkable.com/maps/south-africa/durban/avoca.svg?v=aa4d99ac6c5e) 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](https://howwalkable.com/cities/south-africa/durban/neighbourhoods#kenville) | 1.7 km | 29 | | [Broadway](https://howwalkable.com/cities/south-africa/durban/neighbourhoods#broadway) | 2.8 km | 70 | | [Sea Cow Lake](https://howwalkable.com/cities/south-africa/durban/neighbourhoods#sea-cow-lake) | 3.4 km | 33 | | [Athlone](https://howwalkable.com/cities/south-africa/durban/athlone) | 3.7 km | 57 | | [Sydenham](https://howwalkable.com/cities/south-africa/durban/sydenham) | 6.8 km | 73 | | [Stamford Hill](https://howwalkable.com/cities/south-africa/durban/stamford-hill) | 6.8 km | 71 | | [Overport](https://howwalkable.com/cities/south-africa/durban/neighbourhoods#overport) | 7.2 km | 89 | | [Sherwood](https://howwalkable.com/cities/south-africa/durban/neighbourhoods#sherwood) | 7.5 km | 61 | See [all 16 neighbourhoods of Durban ranked by walkability](https://howwalkable.com/cities/south-africa/durban/neighbourhoods). ## 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](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 Avoca, Durban?" 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.