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How walkable is Capital Park, Pretoria?
By Oscar Higson-Spence. Updated
Capital Park has a walkability score of 34 out of 100 across the 850 m around its centre, which makes it car-dependent: most errands require a car. It is the joint 7th most walkable of the 8 neighbourhoods ranked in Pretoria, with 1 other, which scores 52 as a whole.
What's within walking distance
35 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the centre of Capital Park. The nearest grocery is about 13 minutes away on foot. It is weakest for restaurants & bars, banks, books & libraries and culture & entertainment.
Groceries
Restaurants & bars
Shopping
- RVN Beds, 16 min
- Time for Wine, 17 min
Coffee
Banks
Parks
- East Park, 12 min
- Zoo picnic spot, 27 min
Schools
- Capital Park Primary School, 11 min
- Jolly Jungle Pre Primary School, 11 min
Books & libraries
Culture & entertainment
Measured from the mapped centre of Capital Park, Pretoria at -25.7242, 28.1878. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route.
Street layout
Within 800 m of the centre there are about 28 street intersections per km², and blocks average 147 m long. Sparser streets or longer blocks reduce the score by 5%, since they make walks longer than the straight-line distance suggests.
Walkability across Capital Park, Pretoria
- 90+
- 70–89
- 50–69
- 25–49
- 0–24
Each hexagon is the score at a point across the 850 m around the centre of Capital Park, Pretoria. Rings mark 450 m and 850 m from the centre. Gaps are water or land without streets.
Nearby neighbourhoods in Pretoria
| Neighbourhood | Distance | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Roseville | 1.9 km | 43 |
| Wonderboom South | 3.4 km | 34 |
| Pretoria West | 4.2 km | 55 |
| Sunnyside | 4.4 km | 74 |
| Lukasrand | 4.8 km | 57 |
| Colbyn | 5.9 km | 72 |
| Groenkloof | 6.5 km | 58 |
See all 8 neighbourhoods of Pretoria ranked by walkability.
Questions about walking in Capital Park, Pretoria
Is Capital Park walkable?
Not very. Capital Park in Pretoria has a walkability score of 34 out of 100 across the 850 m around its centre, which makes it car-dependent: most errands require a car.
Is Capital Park more walkable than the rest of Pretoria?
Capital Park is less walkable than Pretoria as a whole: it scores 34, against 52 for the 5 km around Pretoria's centre. It is the joint 7th most walkable of the 8 neighbourhoods ranked in Pretoria, with 1 other on How Walkable.
What are the most walkable neighbourhoods in Pretoria?
Of the 8 Pretoria neighbourhoods on How Walkable, the most walkable are Sunnyside (74), Colbyn (72) and Groenkloof (58).
How is the walkability score of Capital Park 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 Capital Park it is the average of 47 points spread evenly across the 850 m 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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