Yarrabah · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)

Walkability in Yarrabah

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.

Steeper hills than the state average make Yarrabah a car-dependent area where walking is difficult for many. No homes here have a full 15-minute-city walkshed, and the number of amenity types within a 15-minute walk is far below the Queensland figure.

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📍 Yarrabah, Statistical Area 2 (SA2)

Walking times to everyday amenities

Share of homes (G-NAF addresses) in Yarrabah 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 car-dependent, with only 1.1 types of amenities within a 15-minute walk, which is far below the Queensland figure of 4.8.

1.1

Lower than 95% 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.

0.0%

Lower 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.

Walking access is very limited; no homes are within a 10-minute walk of public transport, health services, or groceries. While 47.2% of homes are within 15 minutes of a school, this is still far below the state average.

Streets & terrain

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

The mean terrain slope is 8.9%, which is a little above the Queensland figure of 6.0%. There are 0 intersections per square kilometre, and the number of walkable amenities per 1,000 residents is far below the state average.

2.0

Lower than 99% 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.

8.9%

Higher than 87% 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).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Walkability in Yarrabah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/306031163/yarrabah/topic/walkability