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.
Flat terrain defines the landscape of Hotham, though the area remains car-dependent for most daily needs. While parks are accessible, there are no shops, schools or health services within walking distance for residents.
Amenity density, how well the streets connect, and how hilly the walk is.
There are 166.7 walkable amenities per 1,000 residents, which is far above the Northern Territory figure of 19.0. There are 0 intersections per square kilometre.
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.
Walkable street intersections per square kilometre. Denser, better-connected street grids give more direct routes on foot than winding, cul-de-sac layouts.
Sources
Walkability (OpenStreetMap, GTFS, ACARA & G-NAF, via Valhalla) — OpenStreetMap contributors, state transport agencies, ACARA & Geoscape Australia, 2026 (ODbL 1.0 + CC BY).
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Walkability in Hotham [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70128/hotham/topic/walkability