Sweers Island · 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.
Almost no one can reach basic amenities on foot in Sweers Island, making it a place where daily needs are not within a 15-minute walk. The area is largely car-dependent, with a total lack of walkable services compared to the state average.
Amenity density, how well the streets connect, and how hilly the walk is.
There is only 1 intersection per square kilometre. This matches the total lack of walkable amenities per 1,000 residents, a figure that is far below the Queensland average of 13.4.
0.0
Lower 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
Higher than 50% 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 Sweers Island [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32710/sweers-island/topic/walkability
