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How walkable is Colbyn, Pretoria?
By Oscar Higson-Spence. Updated
Colbyn has a walkability score of 72 out of 100 across the 1 km around its centre, which makes it very walkable: most errands can be done on foot. It is the 2nd most walkable of the 8 neighbourhoods ranked in Pretoria, which scores 52 as a whole.
What's within walking distance
260 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the centre of Colbyn. The nearest grocery is about 8 minutes away on foot. It earns full or nearly full points for shopping, coffee, parks and schools. It is weakest for banks.
Groceries
- Woolworths Food, 16 min
- Superspar, 17 min
Restaurants & bars
- Royal Danish Ice Cream, 5 min
- Namaskar Restaurant, 6 min
Shopping
- Colbyn Village, 5 min
- Orchard Food, 5 min
Coffee
- Cafenio, 4 min
- Jebena Roasters, 4 min
Banks
- Standard Bank, 22 min
- African Bank Tshwane Hatfield Mall, 26 min
Parks
- Hatfield Playpark, 20 min
- Queenswood Park, 22 min
Schools
- Loreto School Queenswood, 11 min
- Kids 24, 17 min
Books & libraries
- Bookit Books, 23 min
- Protea Boekwinkel, 30 min
Culture & entertainment
- Poland Consulate, 11 min
Measured from the mapped centre of Colbyn, Pretoria at -25.7400, 28.2437. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route.
Street layout
Within 800 m of the centre there are about 57 street intersections per km², and blocks average 110 m long. Sparser streets or longer blocks reduce the score by 2%, since they make walks longer than the straight-line distance suggests.
Walkability across Colbyn, Pretoria
- 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 Colbyn, Pretoria. Rings mark 500 m and 1 km from the centre. Gaps are water or land without streets.
Nearby neighbourhoods in Pretoria
| Neighbourhood | Distance | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Sunnyside | 3.7 km | 74 |
| Groenkloof | 4.7 km | 58 |
| Lukasrand | 4.7 km | 57 |
| Wonderboom South | 5.7 km | 34 |
| Capital Park | 5.9 km | 34 |
| Roseville | 7.4 km | 43 |
| Pretoria West | 8.8 km | 55 |
See all 8 neighbourhoods of Pretoria ranked by walkability.
Questions about walking in Colbyn, Pretoria
Is Colbyn walkable?
Yes. Colbyn in Pretoria has a walkability score of 72 out of 100 across the 1 km around its centre, which makes it very walkable: most errands can be done on foot.
Is Colbyn more walkable than the rest of Pretoria?
Colbyn is more walkable than Pretoria as a whole: it scores 72, against 52 for the 5 km around Pretoria's centre. It is the 2nd most walkable of the 8 neighbourhoods ranked in Pretoria 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 Colbyn 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 Colbyn it is the average of 54 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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