--- title: "Pretoria West walkability score: 55/100 · How Walkable" description: "Pretoria West scores 55/100 for walkability (Somewhat 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/pretoria-west 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. Pretoria West # How walkable is Pretoria West? By [Oscar Higson-Spence](https://howwalkable.com/about#author). Updated 22 October 2026 Pretoria West has a walkability score of 55 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 5th most walkable of the 8 neighbourhoods ranked in Pretoria, which scores 52 as a whole. 55 out of 100: Somewhat Walkable Some errands can be accomplished on foot. * #5 of 8 in Pretoria * 52 Pretoria overall * 67 at the centre [Open on the map](https://howwalkable.com/?lat=-25.74947&lon=28.15681&q=Pretoria%20West%2C%20Pretoria) ## What's within walking distance 173 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the centre of Pretoria West. The nearest grocery is about 11 minutes away on foot. It earns full or nearly full points for shopping and schools. It is weakest for banks. ### Groceries 2.0 of 3 points * Kit Kat Group, 11 min * Pick n Pay Liquor, 16 min * Pick n Pay Quagga, 18 min ### Restaurants & bars 2.2 of 3 points * Kampala Paradise, 4 min * Lockdown African food, 4 min * Secrets Spot Bar, 9 min ### Shopping 2.0 of 2 points * Church Street Furnitures, 3 min * J&E Cash 'n Carry, 3 min * King Merc Spares, 3 min ### Coffee 0.9 of 2 points * Rosetta Street Pretoria West, 10 min ### Banks 0.3 of 1 point * ABSA, 17 min * African Bank Tshwane Quagga Centre, 18 min * Standard Bank, 18 min ### Parks 0.6 of 1 point * Pretoria Showgrounds, 12 min ### Schools 1.0 of 1 point * Victory Pre-School & DayCare Centre, 2 min * Happy Hours Pre - School & After School Care, 4 min * Theo's Day Care, 5 min ### Books & libraries 0.8 of 1 point * Pretoria Metal Pressings, PMP Library, 9 min ### Culture & entertainment 0.7 of 1 point * Kit Kat Convention Centre, 10 min Measured from the mapped centre of Pretoria West at -25.7495, 28.1568. 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 134 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 West ![Walkability scores across the 1 km around the centre of Pretoria West. 20% of points score 70 or more; the lowest, 24, is 900 m to the south.](https://howwalkable.com/maps/south-africa/pretoria/pretoria-west.svg?v=c815d01c37a6) Each hexagon is the score at a point across the 1 km around the centre of Pretoria West. 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](https://howwalkable.com/cities/south-africa/pretoria/capital-park) | 4.2 km | 34 | | [Roseville](https://howwalkable.com/cities/south-africa/pretoria/neighbourhoods#roseville) | 5 km | 43 | | [Lukasrand](https://howwalkable.com/cities/south-africa/pretoria/neighbourhoods#lukasrand) | 5.1 km | 57 | | [Sunnyside](https://howwalkable.com/cities/south-africa/pretoria/sunnyside) | 5.6 km | 74 | | [Groenkloof](https://howwalkable.com/cities/south-africa/pretoria/groenkloof) | 6.8 km | 58 | | [Wonderboom South](https://howwalkable.com/cities/south-africa/pretoria/neighbourhoods#wonderboom-south) | 7.6 km | 34 | | [Colbyn](https://howwalkable.com/cities/south-africa/pretoria/colbyn) | 8.8 km | 72 | See [all 8 neighbourhoods of Pretoria ranked by walkability](https://howwalkable.com/cities/south-africa/pretoria/neighbourhoods). ## Questions about walking in Pretoria West ### Is Pretoria West walkable? Partly. Pretoria West has a walkability score of 55 out of 100 across the 1 km around its centre, which makes it somewhat walkable: some errands can be done on foot. ### Is Pretoria West more walkable than the rest of Pretoria? Pretoria West is more walkable than Pretoria as a whole: it scores 55, against 52 for the 5 km around Pretoria's centre. It is the 5th 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 Pretoria West 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 West it is the average of 60 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 Pretoria West?" 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.