Thursday 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 walk to public transport on Thursday Island, though most people live very close to schools and parks. While 77% of homes have a good mix of amenities within a 15-minute walk—a figure far above the Queensland average—the overall walkability score is 4.0, meaning the area is mostly car-dependent.
All suburb / locality areas, 2021. The marker is Thursday Island — mostly car-dependent of areas.
| Thursday Island | 4.0 |
|---|---|
| 4875, QLD | 2.1 |
| Queensland | 5.0 |
Share of homes (G-NAF addresses) in Thursday Island by walking time to the nearest amenity of each type, on an elevation-aware pedestrian network. How we calculate this →
The overall walkability score and how much of daily life is a short walk away.
The walkability score of 4.0 means Thursday Island is mostly car-dependent, which is well below the Queensland figure of 5.0. On average, residents have access to about 4.8 different types of amenities within a 15-minute walk, similar to the state average.
4.0
Mostly car-dependent of suburb / locality 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.
4.8
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality 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.
77.0%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality 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.
How many homes can walk to groceries, transport, schools, parks and health services.
Walking to a park or school is easy, with 95.8% and 81.6% of homes within a 15-minute walk, both far above the state average. However, access to groceries and public transport is much harder, with 0% of homes within a 10-minute walk of transport and only 25.8% within 15 minutes of a grocery store.
25.8%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of local homes within a 15-minute walk of groceries or everyday shopping. Homes are counted as addresses (G-NAF), not people.
0.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality 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.
81.6%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of local homes within a 15-minute walk of a school. Homes are counted as addresses (G-NAF), not people.
95.8%
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of local homes within a 15-minute walk of a park or area of open space. Homes are counted as addresses (G-NAF), not people.
38.1%
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality 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.
Amenity density, how well the streets connect, and how hilly the walk is.
The terrain is steeper than the Queensland average, with a mean slope of 9.1%. There are 43 intersections per square kilometre, while the number of walkable amenities per 1,000 residents is far below the state figure.
6.1
Lower than 68% 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.
43
Higher than 77% 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.
9.1%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality 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.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Walkability in Thursday Island [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32823/thursday-island/topic/walkability
