--- title: "Colbyn, Pretoria walkability score: 72/100 · How Walkable" description: "Colbyn in Pretoria scores 72/100 for walkability (Very Walkable). 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/colbyn 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. Colbyn # How walkable is Colbyn, Pretoria? By [Oscar Higson-Spence](https://howwalkable.com/about#author). Updated 22 October 2026 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. 72 out of 100: Very Walkable Most errands can be accomplished on foot. * #2 of 8 in Pretoria * 52 Pretoria overall * 83 at the centre [Open on the map](https://howwalkable.com/?lat=-25.73998&lon=28.24367&q=Colbyn%2C%20Pretoria) ## 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 2.5 of 3 points * Fresh Stop, 8 min * Woolworths Food, 16 min * Superspar, 17 min ### Restaurants & bars 2.7 of 3 points * Teazen, 4 min * Royal Danish Ice Cream, 5 min * Namaskar Restaurant, 6 min ### Shopping 2.0 of 2 points * Vellie Boutique Pretoria, 4 min * Colbyn Village, 5 min * Orchard Food, 5 min ### Coffee 2.0 of 2 points * Saalig Café / Bakery / Catering, 4 min * Cafenio, 4 min * Jebena Roasters, 4 min ### Banks 0.2 of 1 point * ABSA, 18 min * Standard Bank, 22 min * African Bank Tshwane Hatfield Mall, 26 min ### Parks 1.0 of 1 point * Springbok Park, 16 min * Hatfield Playpark, 20 min * Queenswood Park, 22 min ### Schools 1.0 of 1 point * Harvest Seedlings Pre School, 3 min * Loreto School Queenswood, 11 min * Kids 24, 17 min ### Books & libraries 0.5 of 1 point * Hahn & Hahn, 13 min * Bookit Books, 23 min * Protea Boekwinkel, 30 min ### Culture & entertainment 0.8 of 1 point * Altum - Restaurant and Events, 9 min * 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 ![Walkability scores across the 1 km around the centre of Colbyn. 66% of points score 70 or more; the lowest, 26, is 1000 m to the east.](https://howwalkable.com/maps/south-africa/pretoria/colbyn.svg?v=ccca5b162258) 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](https://howwalkable.com/cities/south-africa/pretoria/sunnyside) | 3.7 km | 74 | | [Groenkloof](https://howwalkable.com/cities/south-africa/pretoria/groenkloof) | 4.7 km | 58 | | [Lukasrand](https://howwalkable.com/cities/south-africa/pretoria/neighbourhoods#lukasrand) | 4.7 km | 57 | | [Wonderboom South](https://howwalkable.com/cities/south-africa/pretoria/neighbourhoods#wonderboom-south) | 5.7 km | 34 | | [Capital Park](https://howwalkable.com/cities/south-africa/pretoria/capital-park) | 5.9 km | 34 | | [Roseville](https://howwalkable.com/cities/south-africa/pretoria/neighbourhoods#roseville) | 7.4 km | 43 | | [Pretoria West](https://howwalkable.com/cities/south-africa/pretoria/pretoria-west) | 8.8 km | 55 | See [all 8 neighbourhoods of Pretoria ranked by walkability](https://howwalkable.com/cities/south-africa/pretoria/neighbourhoods). ## 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](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 Colbyn, 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.