Knuckey Lagoon · Indigenous Location

Walkability in Knuckey Lagoon

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.

Far fewer amenities are within walking distance in Knuckey Lagoon than in other Northern Territory areas. This car-dependent location has a walkability score of 1.2, which is far below the territory figure of 5.1. Most residents must rely on vehicles for daily trips as very few homes are within a 15-minute walk of local services.

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Where Knuckey Lagoon sits — Walkability score

1.2 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 Knuckey Lagoon — car-dependent of areas.

Walkability score compared with the state and national average
Knuckey Lagoon1.2
0828, NT 3.3
Northern Territory 5.1

Walking times to everyday amenities

Share of homes (G-NAF addresses) in Knuckey Lagoon 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.

The area is rated as car-dependent, with a walkability score of 1.2. This is far below the Northern Territory figure of 5.1, and only 1.5% of homes have a 15-minute-city walkshed.

1.2

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.

1.2

Lower than 86% 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.

1.5%

Lower than 85% 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.

Access to essentials is very limited; only 1.9% of homes are within a 15-minute walk of groceries. While 65.5% of residents can walk to a park within 15 minutes, only 3.4% can reach a school or health service in that time.

Streets & terrain

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

The average terrain slope is 3.5%, which is about the same as the Northern Territory figure of 3.7%. There are 18 street intersections per square kilometre.

3.5%

Lower than 68% 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 Knuckey Lagoon [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/iloc/ILOC70300706/knuckey-lagoon/topic/walkability