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How walkable is Stamford Hill, Durban?
By Oscar Higson-Spence. Updated
Stamford Hill has a walkability score of 71 out of 100 across the 1.3 km around its centre, which makes it very walkable: most errands can be done on foot. It is the 3rd most walkable of the 16 neighbourhoods ranked in Durban, which scores 68 as a whole.
What's within walking distance
296 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the centre of Stamford Hill. The nearest grocery is about 23 minutes away on foot. It earns full or nearly full points for banks, parks and culture & entertainment. It is weakest for groceries, schools and books & libraries.
Groceries
- LiquorShop Checkers, 23 min
- Windermere, 23 min
Restaurants & bars
- People's Park Cafe, 7 min
- Kauai, 10 min
Shopping
- Sneakers, 6 min
- Jabsport, 11 min
Coffee
- Sunkist Lifesaving Club, 10 min
- Cafe Vigour, 12 min
Banks
- Independent Municipal & Allied Trade Union, 21 min
- Nedbank Windermere, 23 min
Parks
- Sutton park, 17 min
- Carpendale Park, 24 min
Schools
- Cottonfield Daycare, 22 min
- Mighty Minds Montessori Preschool, 22 min
Books & libraries
- Ike's Books & Collectables, 29 min
Culture & entertainment
- The Barnyard Theatre, 10 min
- Suncoast CineCentre, 12 min
Measured from the mapped centre of Stamford Hill, Durban at -29.8309, 31.0316. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route.
Street layout
Within 800 m of the centre there are about 46 street intersections per km², and blocks average 98 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 Stamford Hill, Durban
- 90+
- 70–89
- 50–69
- 25–49
- 0–24
Each hexagon is the score at a point across the 1.3 km around the centre of Stamford Hill, Durban. Rings mark 650 m and 1.3 km from the centre. Gaps are water or land without streets.
Nearby neighbourhoods in Durban
| Neighbourhood | Distance | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Overport | 2.9 km | 89 |
| Athlone | 3.2 km | 57 |
| Sydenham | 3.6 km | 73 |
| Sea Cow Lake | 4.1 km | 33 |
| Broadway | 5 km | 70 |
| Sherwood | 5.3 km | 61 |
| Kenville | 5.6 km | 29 |
| Avoca | 6.8 km | 37 |
See all 16 neighbourhoods of Durban ranked by walkability.
Questions about walking in Stamford Hill, Durban
Is Stamford Hill walkable?
Yes. Stamford Hill in Durban has a walkability score of 71 out of 100 across the 1.3 km around its centre, which makes it very walkable: most errands can be done on foot.
Is Stamford Hill more walkable than the rest of Durban?
Stamford Hill is more walkable than Durban as a whole: it scores 71, against 68 for the 5 km around Durban's centre. It is the 3rd 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 Stamford Hill 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 Stamford Hill it is the average of 45 points spread evenly across the 1.3 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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