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How walkable is Cato Manor?
By Oscar Higson-SpenceUpdated
Cato Manor has a walkability score of 22 out of 100 across the 1 km around its centre, which makes it car-dependent: almost all errands require a car. It is the 5th most walkable of 5 neighbourhoods ranked in Durban, which scores 68 as a whole.
What's within walking distance
54 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the centre of Cato Manor. There is no grocery store within a 30 minute walk. It earns full or nearly full points for schools. It is weakest for groceries, shopping, coffee, banks, parks and books & libraries.
- Mashamplanes10 min
- Tsalanang Car Wash and Fast Food19 min
- Bassas Builders Warehouse14 min
- All In One market28 min
- Chesterville Extension Technical High School8 min
- Umkhumbane Secondary School8 min
- The Umkhumbane Municipality Library27 min
- Zaba's Pub and Grill Music Entertainment:shisa Nyama21 min
- Chesterville Community Hall25 min
Measured from the mapped centre of Cato Manor at -29.8619, 30.9519. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route.
Street layout
Within 800 m of the centre there are about 68 street intersections per km², and blocks average 89 m long. Sparser streets or longer blocks reduce the score by 1%, since they make walks longer than the straight-line distance suggests.
Walkability across Cato Manor
- 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 Cato Manor. Rings mark 500 m and 1 km from the centre. Gaps are water or land without streets.
Nearby neighbourhoods in Durban
| Neighbourhood | Distance | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Sydenham | 5.6 km | 73 |
| Stamford Hill, Durban | 8.4 km | 71 |
| Athlone, Durban | 10.1 km | 57 |
| Avoca, Durban | 11.9 km | 37 |
See every neighbourhood ranked on the Durban page.
Questions about walking in Cato Manor
Is Cato Manor walkable?
Not very. Cato Manor in Durban has a walkability score of 22 out of 100 across the 1 km around its centre, which makes it car-dependent: almost all errands require a car.
Is Cato Manor more walkable than the rest of Durban?
Cato Manor is less walkable than Durban as a whole: it scores 22, against 68 for the 5 km around Durban's centre. It ranks 5th of the 5 Durban neighbourhoods on How Walkable.
What are the most walkable neighbourhoods in Durban?
Of the 5 Durban neighbourhoods on How Walkable, the most walkable are Sydenham (73), Stamford Hill, Durban (71) and Athlone, Durban (57).
How is the walkability score of Cato Manor 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 Cato Manor it is the average of 60 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.
Scores follow a published walkability method, explained in the methodology. Neighbourhood position from Overture Maps, name from Wikidata.