Gibson Desert North · 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.
Zero grocery stores or health services are within walking distance for people in Gibson Desert North. This is a sparsely populated area where the only walkable amenities are parks, making it entirely car-dependent for every basic need.
Amenity density, how well the streets connect, and how hilly the walk is.
There are 7.6 walkable amenities per 1,000 residents, which is far below the Western Australian figure of 16.6. Street connectivity is recorded at 0 intersections per square kilometre.
7.6
Lower than 64% 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.
0
Lower than 99% 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 Gibson Desert North [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50540/gibson-desert-north/topic/walkability
