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.
Fewer walking options are available in Numbulwar than in most other Northern Territory areas, making it mostly car-dependent. While some essential services are reachable on foot, there is a notable lack of everyday shops and parks within walking distance.
Amenity density, how well the streets connect, and how hilly the walk is.
There are 6 intersections per square kilometre. With only 2.9 walkable amenities per 1,000 people, access to nearby services is far below the Northern Territory figure of 19.0.
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 Numbulwar [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70213/numbulwar/topic/walkability