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How walkable is Parktown?
By Oscar Higson-SpenceUpdated
Parktown has a walkability score of 68 out of 100 across the 1 km around its centre, which makes it somewhat walkable: some errands can be done on foot. It is the 4th most walkable of 5 neighbourhoods ranked in Johannesburg, which scores 61 as a whole.
What's within walking distance
269 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the centre of Parktown. The nearest grocery is Woolworths, about 8 minutes away on foot. It earns full or nearly full points for coffee and parks. It is weakest for books & libraries.
- FreshStop13 min
- Spar18 min
- Wimpy Engen Empire Road8 min
- Olives and Plates9 min
- Concept Cyclery Cedar Square5 min
- Reeva Beauty & Health6 min
- Bello Cafe6 min
- Vida e Caffè12 min
- Nedbank18 min
- Capitec Bank Johannesburg Wits Campus18 min
- Frank Brown Park12 min
- Unnamed park23 min
- Enchanted Forest Montessori Preschool14 min
- St Lewis Bertrand's High School17 min
- National Health Laboratory Service18 min
- National Ports Authority of South Africa18 min
- Johannesburg Planetarium16 min
- Jubilee Hall - Wits16 min
Measured from the mapped centre of Parktown at -26.1817, 28.0278. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route.
Street layout
Within 800 m of the centre there are about 59 street intersections per km², and blocks average 111 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 Parktown
- 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 Parktown. Rings mark 500 m and 1 km from the centre. Gaps are water or land without streets.
Nearby neighbourhoods in Johannesburg
| Neighbourhood | Distance | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Braamfontein | 1.4 km | 92 |
| Hillbrow | 2.2 km | 94 |
| Jeppestown | 4.9 km | 77 |
| Sophiatown | 5.2 km | 54 |
See every neighbourhood ranked on the Johannesburg page.
Questions about walking in Parktown
Is Parktown walkable?
Partly. Parktown in Johannesburg has a walkability score of 68 out of 100 across the 1 km around its centre, which makes it somewhat walkable: some errands can be done on foot.
Is Parktown more walkable than the rest of Johannesburg?
Parktown is more walkable than Johannesburg as a whole: it scores 68, against 61 for the 5 km around Johannesburg's centre. It ranks 4th of the 5 Johannesburg neighbourhoods on How Walkable.
What are the most walkable neighbourhoods in Johannesburg?
Of the 5 Johannesburg neighbourhoods on How Walkable, the most walkable are Hillbrow (94), Braamfontein (92) and Jeppestown (77).
How is the walkability score of Parktown 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 Parktown it is the average of 58 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.