--- title: "Capital Park, Pretoria walkability score: 34/100" description: "Capital Park in Pretoria scores 34/100 for walkability (Car-Dependent). What's within a walk, its street layout, and how it compares with the rest of Pretoria." url: https://howwalkable.com/cities/south-africa/pretoria/capital-park updated: 2026-10-22 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ --- 1. [Cities](https://howwalkable.com/cities) 2. [South Africa](https://howwalkable.com/cities/south-africa) 3. [Pretoria](https://howwalkable.com/cities/south-africa/pretoria) 4. Capital Park # How walkable is Capital Park, Pretoria? By [Oscar Higson-Spence](https://howwalkable.com/about#author). Updated 22 October 2026 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. 34 out of 100: Car-Dependent Most errands require a car. * #7 of 8 tied, in Pretoria * 52 Pretoria overall * 32 at the centre [Open on the map](https://howwalkable.com/?lat=-25.72417&lon=28.18778&q=Capital%20Park%2C%20Pretoria) ## 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 1.7 of 3 points * SPAR Express, 13 min ### Restaurants & bars 0.0 of 3 points * None within a 30 minute walk ### Shopping 0.8 of 2 points * ShaNeal Distributors, 4 min * RVN Beds, 16 min * Time for Wine, 17 min ### Coffee 1.2 of 2 points * Seattle Coffee Company, 12 min ### Banks 0.0 of 1 point * None within a 30 minute walk ### Parks 0.7 of 1 point * West Park, 10 min * East Park, 12 min * Zoo picnic spot, 27 min ### Schools 0.7 of 1 point * Capital Park Pre-School cum Creche, 10 min * Capital Park Primary School, 11 min * Jolly Jungle Pre Primary School, 11 min ### Books & libraries 0.0 of 1 point * None within a 30 minute walk ### Culture & entertainment 0.0 of 1 point * National Zoological Gardens (Pretoria Zoo), 27 min 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 ![Walkability scores across the 850 m around the centre of Capital Park. 0% of points score 70 or more; the lowest, 13, is 600 m to the north.](https://howwalkable.com/maps/south-africa/pretoria/capital-park.svg?v=88d4020496eb) 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](https://howwalkable.com/cities/south-africa/pretoria/neighbourhoods#roseville) | 1.9 km | 43 | | [Wonderboom South](https://howwalkable.com/cities/south-africa/pretoria/neighbourhoods#wonderboom-south) | 3.4 km | 34 | | [Pretoria West](https://howwalkable.com/cities/south-africa/pretoria/pretoria-west) | 4.2 km | 55 | | [Sunnyside](https://howwalkable.com/cities/south-africa/pretoria/sunnyside) | 4.4 km | 74 | | [Lukasrand](https://howwalkable.com/cities/south-africa/pretoria/neighbourhoods#lukasrand) | 4.8 km | 57 | | [Colbyn](https://howwalkable.com/cities/south-africa/pretoria/colbyn) | 5.9 km | 72 | | [Groenkloof](https://howwalkable.com/cities/south-africa/pretoria/groenkloof) | 6.5 km | 58 | See [all 8 neighbourhoods of Pretoria ranked by walkability](https://howwalkable.com/cities/south-africa/pretoria/neighbourhoods). ## 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](https://howwalkable.com/methodology). Places from Overture Maps release 2026-09-23.1. Neighbourhood position from Overture Maps, name from Wikidata. Ask about walking anywhere in ChatGPT with the [How Walkable app](https://chatgpt.com/plugins/plugin_asdk_app_6accc634bcf8819189c1bcaf0e227f0f), for example "How walkable is Capital Park, Pretoria?" Scores, rankings and text by How Walkable (https://howwalkable.com), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); credit How Walkable and link to this page when reusing them.