Barrow 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.
Only parks are within a short walk for people on Barrow Island, while other basic services are entirely missing. This makes the area mostly car-dependent for any daily needs, as there are no shops, schools or health services nearby.
Amenity density, how well the streets connect, and how hilly the walk is.
There are 6 intersections per square kilometre. With 5,933.3 walkable amenities per 1,000 residents, this figure is far above the Western Australian average of 16.6.
5,933.3
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.
6
Higher than 70% 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 Barrow Island [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50076/barrow-island/topic/walkability
