Melaleuca - Lexia · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)

Walkability in Melaleuca - Lexia

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 terrain with a typical slope of 7.8% marks the landscape of Melaleuca - Lexia, an area that is entirely car-dependent. There are no amenities within a 15-minute walk for any home, making it far less walkable than typical Western Australian locations.

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📍 Melaleuca - Lexia, Statistical Area 2 (SA2)

Where Melaleuca - Lexia sits — Walkability score

0.0 Car-dependent
  • 0.0–0.4: 41 areas
  • 0.4–0.7: 31 areas
  • 0.7–1.1: 51 areas
  • 1.1–1.4: 56 areas
  • 1.4–1.8: 55 areas
  • 1.8–2.1: 65 areas
  • 2.1–2.5: 78 areas
  • 2.5–2.9: 65 areas
  • 2.9–3.2: 93 areas
  • 3.2–3.6: 90 areas
  • 3.6–3.9: 82 areas
  • 3.9–4.3: 119 areas
  • 4.3–4.6: 122 areas
  • 4.6–5.0: 113 areas
  • 5.0–5.4: 127 areas
  • 5.4–5.7: 140 areas
  • 5.7–6.1: 127 areas
  • 6.1–6.4: 149 areas
  • 6.4–6.8: 137 areas
  • 6.8–7.1: 130 areas
  • 7.1–7.5: 121 areas
  • 7.5–7.9: 99 areas
  • 7.9–8.2: 79 areas
  • 8.2–8.6: 103 areas
  • 8.6–8.9: 69 areas
  • 8.9–9.3: 52 areas
  • 9.3–9.6: 44 areas
  • 9.6–10.0: 15 areas

All statistical area 2 (sa2) areas, 2021. The marker is Melaleuca - Lexia — car-dependent of areas.

Walkability score compared with the state and national average
Melaleuca - Lexia0.0
6079, WA 0.2
Western Australia 5.4

Walking times to everyday amenities

Share of homes (G-NAF addresses) in Melaleuca - Lexia 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 walkability score is 0.0, which is far below the Western Australian figure of 5.4. No homes here have a 15-minute-city walkshed, a result that is far below the state average of 64%.

0.0

Car-dependent 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.

0.0

Lower 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.

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.

Every single home in the area is more than 30 minutes away from basic needs like groceries, schools, and health services. This puts the area far below state figures for access to public transport (0% compared to 80.9%) and parks (0% compared to 88.9%).

Streets & terrain

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

The area has a street connectivity of 2 intersections per square kilometre. The mean terrain slope is 7.8%, which is a little above the Western Australian average of 5.7%.

7.8%

Higher than 80% 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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Cite this page

Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Walkability in Melaleuca - Lexia [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/504031064/melaleuca-lexia/topic/walkability