Sydney (South) - Haymarket · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
🚶 Walkability in Sydney (South) - Haymarket
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.
A walkability score of 9.8 makes Haymarket a walker's paradise, far exceeding the New South Wales figure of 6.2. Every single home in this area is within a 15-minute walk of a wide range of amenities, providing a level of accessibility that is far above the state average.
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Where Sydney (South) - Haymarket sits — Walkability score
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30+ min or none
Groceries
Food & drink
Health
Schools
Parks
Culture
Services
Public transport
Share of homes (G-NAF addresses) in Sydney (South) - Haymarket 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 exceptionally convenient, with a typical 15-minute walk covering 8 different amenity types. This is well above the state average of 5.8.
A walker's paradise of statistical area 2 (sa2) 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.
Higher than 99% of statistical area 2 (sa2) 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.
Higher than 99% of statistical area 2 (sa2) 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.
Every resident lives within a 5-minute walk of public transport, groceries, and parks, though schools are slightly further with 90% within 5 minutes. Access to health services is far above the state average, with 100% of homes nearby.
Higher than 99% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
Share of local homes within a 10-minute walk of a public-transport stop — bus, train, tram or ferry. Homes are counted as addresses (G-NAF), not people.
Higher than 99% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
Share of local homes within a 15-minute walk of health services such as a GP, pharmacy or hospital. Homes are counted as addresses (G-NAF), not people.
Streets & terrain
Amenity density, how well the streets connect, and how hilly the walk is.
The local terrain is quite steep, with a mean slope of 17.1% which is far above the state figure of 6.8%. There are 999 intersections per square kilometre and 18 walkable amenities for every 1,000 residents.
Higher than 67% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
Walkable amenities — shops, cafés, parks, health services, schools, cultural and community places, everyday services and public-transport stops — per 1,000 residents. Measures how much is around, apart from how far it is to walk there.
Higher than 99% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
Walkable street intersections per square kilometre. Denser, better-connected street grids give more direct routes on foot than winding, cul-de-sac layouts.
Higher than 99% of statistical area 2 (sa2) 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).
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Walkability in Sydney (South) - Haymarket [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/117031645/sydney-haymarket/topic/walkability