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How walkable is Ferreirasdorp, Johannesburg?
By Oscar Higson-Spence. Updated
Ferreirasdorp has a walkability score of 94 out of 100 across the 1 km around its centre, which makes it a Walker's Paradise, where daily errands do not require a car. It is one of 2 neighbourhoods tied as the most walkable of the 16 ranked in Johannesburg, which scores 61 as a whole.
What's within walking distance
1,131 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the centre of Ferreirasdorp. The nearest grocery is about 3 minutes away on foot. It earns full or nearly full points for groceries, restaurants & bars, shopping, banks, parks, schools, books & libraries and culture & entertainment.
Groceries
- Sui Hing Hong, 5 min
- Cambridge Food Newgate, 5 min
Restaurants & bars
- Sausage Saloon, 4 min
- Dee Oyster & Champagne Bar, 4 min
Shopping
- Market Square Market, 3 min
- AFYA PHARMACY (FORDSBURG), 4 min
Coffee
- City Perk Cafe, 10 min
- Starbucks, 11 min
Banks
- Standard Bank, 6 min
- Old Mutual, 6 min
Parks
- Queen Elizabeth Bridge Park, 9 min
- Ernest Oppenheimer Park, 15 min
Schools
- Eclah Pre-School, 7 min
- Creative Kids College/South Point, 12 min
Books & libraries
- Lenasia Ext 1 Library, 7 min
- Johannesburg City Library, 8 min
Culture & entertainment
- The Workers' Museum, 3 min
- Market Theatre, 3 min
Measured from the mapped centre of Ferreirasdorp, Johannesburg at -26.2037, 28.0335. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route.
Street layout
Within 800 m of the centre there are about 99 street intersections per km², and blocks average 90 m long. That is a well-connected street grid, so the score is not reduced.
Walkability across Ferreirasdorp, Johannesburg
- 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 Ferreirasdorp, Johannesburg. Rings mark 500 m and 1 km from the centre. Gaps are water or land without streets.
Nearby neighbourhoods in Johannesburg
| Neighbourhood | Distance | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Marshalltown | 1 km | 92 |
| Fordsburg | 1.2 km | 82 |
| Braamfontein | 1.3 km | 92 |
| Hillbrow | 2.3 km | 94 |
| Parktown | 2.5 km | 68 |
| Booysens | 3 km | 52 |
| Richmond | 3 km | 91 |
| Jeppestown | 3.7 km | 77 |
See all 16 neighbourhoods of Johannesburg ranked by walkability.
Questions about walking in Ferreirasdorp, Johannesburg
Is Ferreirasdorp walkable?
Yes. Ferreirasdorp in Johannesburg has a walkability score of 94 out of 100 across the 1 km around its centre, which makes it a Walker's Paradise, where daily errands do not require a car.
Is Ferreirasdorp more walkable than the rest of Johannesburg?
Ferreirasdorp is more walkable than Johannesburg as a whole: it scores 94, against 61 for the 5 km around Johannesburg's centre. It is one of 2 neighbourhoods tied as the most walkable of the 16 ranked in Johannesburg on How Walkable.
What are the most walkable neighbourhoods in Johannesburg?
Of the 16 Johannesburg neighbourhoods on How Walkable, the most walkable are Ferreirasdorp (94), Hillbrow (94), Marshalltown (92) and Braamfontein (92).
How is the walkability score of Ferreirasdorp 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 Ferreirasdorp it is the average of 51 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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