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How walkable is Pretoria North?
By Oscar Higson-SpenceUpdated
Pretoria North has a walkability score of 57 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 Pretoria, which scores 52 as a whole.
What's within walking distance
153 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the centre of Pretoria North. The nearest grocery is Checkers Pretoria North, about 3 minutes away on foot. It earns full or nearly full points for groceries, restaurants & bars, shopping, banks and schools. It is weakest for coffee and culture & entertainment.
- LiquorShop Checkers3 min
- Salvage Mart4 min
- The Fish & Chip Co Gerrit Maritz3 min
- Pretoria North , work3 min
- MediRite Pretoria North2 min
- MTN2 min
- Abreu's Coffee Roastery23 min
- African Bank Tshwane North3 min
- Old Mutual Pretoria Blaauw Village4 min
- Emily Hobhouse Park13 min
- Vader Kestel Park16 min
- Pienkvoetjies Kleuterskool5 min
- Numero Uno Learning Academy7 min
- Tshwane University of Technology - Soshanguve south Campus20 min
Measured from the mapped centre of Pretoria North at -25.6727, 28.1734. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route.
Street layout
Within 800 m of the centre there are about 41 street intersections per km², and blocks average 139 m long. Sparser streets or longer blocks reduce the score by 4%, since they make walks longer than the straight-line distance suggests.
Walkability across Pretoria North
- 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 Pretoria North. Rings mark 500 m and 1 km from the centre. Gaps are water or land without streets.
Nearby neighbourhoods in Pretoria
| Neighbourhood | Distance | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Capital Park, Pretoria | 5.9 km | 34 |
| Sunnyside | 10.2 km | 74 |
| Groenkloof | 12.3 km | 58 |
| Waterkloof | 13.5 km | 60 |
See every neighbourhood ranked on the Pretoria page.
Questions about walking in Pretoria North
Is Pretoria North walkable?
Partly. Pretoria North in Pretoria has a walkability score of 57 out of 100 across the 1 km around its centre, which makes it somewhat walkable: some errands can be done on foot.
Is Pretoria North more walkable than the rest of Pretoria?
Pretoria North is more walkable than Pretoria as a whole: it scores 57, against 52 for the 5 km around Pretoria's centre. It ranks 4th of the 5 Pretoria neighbourhoods on How Walkable.
What are the most walkable neighbourhoods in Pretoria?
Of the 5 Pretoria neighbourhoods on How Walkable, the most walkable are Sunnyside (74), Waterkloof (60) and Groenkloof (58).
How is the walkability score of Pretoria North 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 Pretoria North it is the average of 61 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.