Howard Springs · 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.
Very few local services are within a short stroll for residents of Howard Springs, making it a car-dependent area. Only 0.2% of homes have a 15-minute-city walkshed, which is far below the Northern Territory figure of 61.8%. This lack of nearby amenities is reflected in a walkability score of 0.8.
All suburb / locality areas, 2021. The marker is Howard Springs — car-dependent of areas.
| Howard Springs | 0.8 |
|---|---|
| 0835, NT | 0.8 |
| Northern Territory | 5.1 |
Share of homes (G-NAF addresses) in Howard Springs 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 is 0.8, meaning the area is car-dependent. This is far below the Northern Territory figure of 5.1, with only 0.6 amenity types typically found within a 15-minute walk compared to 5.0 across the territory.
0.8
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.
0.6
Higher than 54% 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.
0.2%
Higher than 57% 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.
Access to essentials is far below the territory average, with only 9.5% of homes within 15 minutes of groceries and 0.6% near health services. While public transport is the most common nearby amenity, 95% of homes are more than 30 minutes away from health services and 91% are that far from a park.
9.5%
Higher than 64% 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.
16.9%
Higher than 63% 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.
11.5%
Higher than 61% 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.
1.7%
Lower than 63% 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.
0.6%
Higher than 72% 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.
There are 9 intersections per square kilometre and a mean terrain slope of 3.6%, which is about the same as the Northern Territory's 3.7%. The area has 8.9 walkable amenities per 1,000 residents, far below the territory figure of 19.0.
8.9
Lower than 61% 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.
9
Higher than 72% 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.
3.6%
Lower than 77% 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 Howard Springs [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70129/howard-springs/topic/walkability
