Hammond Island · Indigenous Location

Walkability in Hammond Island

How much of daily life sits within a walk of home — a transparent 0–10 walkability score and the everyday destinations you can reach on foot: shops, public transport, schools, parks and health services, plus the streets and terrain in between.

Only cultural sites are within easy reach for residents of Hammond Island, while every other main service is far away. The area is considered car-dependent, with a walkability score of 0.4, which is far below the Queensland figure of 5.0.

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Where Hammond Island sits — Walkability score

0.4 Car-dependent
  • 0.0–0.4: 75 areas
  • 0.4–0.7: 43 areas
  • 0.7–1.1: 38 areas
  • 1.1–1.4: 34 areas
  • 1.4–1.8: 42 areas
  • 1.8–2.1: 43 areas
  • 2.1–2.5: 39 areas
  • 2.5–2.9: 38 areas
  • 2.9–3.2: 51 areas
  • 3.2–3.6: 66 areas
  • 3.6–3.9: 54 areas
  • 3.9–4.3: 48 areas
  • 4.3–4.6: 52 areas
  • 4.6–5.0: 44 areas
  • 5.0–5.4: 56 areas
  • 5.4–5.7: 61 areas
  • 5.7–6.1: 53 areas
  • 6.1–6.4: 42 areas
  • 6.4–6.8: 37 areas
  • 6.8–7.1: 36 areas
  • 7.1–7.5: 28 areas
  • 7.5–7.9: 24 areas
  • 7.9–8.2: 21 areas
  • 8.2–8.6: 14 areas
  • 8.6–8.9: 12 areas
  • 8.9–9.3: 8 areas
  • 9.3–9.6: 5 areas
  • 9.6–10.0: 3 areas

All indigenous location areas, 2021. The marker is Hammond Island — car-dependent of areas.

Walkability score compared with the state and national average
Hammond Island0.4
4875, QLD 2.1
Queensland 5.0

Walking times to everyday amenities

Share of homes (G-NAF addresses) in Hammond Island by walking time to the nearest amenity of each type, on an elevation-aware pedestrian network. How we calculate this →

The score

The overall walkability score and how much of daily life is a short walk away.

A walkability score of 0.4 means the area is car-dependent, far below the state figure. No homes here have a 15-minute-city walkshed, compared to 59.1% of homes across Queensland.

0.4

Car-dependent of indigenous location areas.

A 0–10 score for how much of daily life sits within an easy walk of the average home — weighing how close groceries, public transport, cafés, parks, health services, schools, culture and everyday services are, and how many of each. Walking times are measured on an elevation-aware pedestrian network, so hills count against reach. The methodology page describes how the score is put together.

0.7

Lower than 92% of indigenous location areas.

How many of the eight everyday amenity types — groceries, food & drink, health, schools, parks, culture, everyday services and public transport — the average home can reach on foot within 15 minutes, out of 8.

0.0%

Lower than 99% of indigenous location areas.

Share of local homes that can reach at least five of the eight everyday amenity types within a 15-minute walk — the "15-minute city" test. Homes are counted as addresses (G-NAF), not people.

What's in walking distance

How many homes can walk to groceries, transport, schools, parks and health services.

While 49% of homes are within a 5-minute walk of cultural sites, every other amenity is missing. No homes are within a 15-minute walk of groceries, schools, parks, or health services, and 100% of homes are more than 30 minutes away from these needs.

Streets & terrain

Amenity density, how well the streets connect, and how hilly the walk is.

The terrain is quite steep, with a mean slope of 14.6%, well above the Queensland figure of 6.0%. There is one intersection per square kilometre.

14.6%

Higher than 99% of indigenous location areas.

Average terrain slope across the area, as a percent grade. Steeper ground shortens how far people will walk; it is already folded into the walkability score through the elevation-aware pedestrian network, and is shown here on its own for context.

Sources

  • Walkability (OpenStreetMap, GTFS, ACARA & G-NAF, via Valhalla) — OpenStreetMap contributors, state transport agencies, ACARA & Geoscape Australia, 2026 (ODbL 1.0 + CC BY).

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Cite this page

Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Walkability in Hammond Island [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/iloc/ILOC30700101/hammond-island/topic/walkability