Mount Buffalo · Suburb / Locality
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 massive gap between the number of amenities and the actual variety of services defines Mount Buffalo. While there are 1,000 walkable amenities per 1,000 residents—far above the Victorian figure of 15.7—most of these are parks rather than essential services.
Amenity density, how well the streets connect, and how hilly the walk is.
The area has one intersection per square kilometre, and only 20% of the walkable amenities available are for food and drink.
1,000.0
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality 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.
1
Lower than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
Walkable street intersections per square kilometre. Denser, better-connected street grids give more direct routes on foot than winding, cul-de-sac layouts.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Walkability in Mount Buffalo [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21777/mount-buffalo/topic/walkability
