Gympie · Urban Area
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.
Steeper hills than the Queensland average contribute to a walkability score of 3.9, meaning Gympie is mostly car-dependent. While many people can easily reach public transport, very few homes have the variety of shops and services nearby needed to live without a car.
All urban area areas, 2021. The marker is Gympie — mostly car-dependent of areas.
| Gympie | 3.9 |
|---|---|
| 4570, QLD | 2.0 |
| Queensland | 5.0 |
Share of homes (G-NAF addresses) in Gympie 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.
Only 40.4% of homes have a 15-minute-city walkshed, which is far below the Queensland figure of 59.1%. This reflects a lower variety of nearby amenities, with only 3.8 types within a 15-minute walk compared to 4.8 across the state.
3.9
Mostly car-dependent of urban area 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.
3.8
Lower than 79% of urban area 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.
40.4%
Lower than 80% of urban area 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.
Public transport is the easiest to reach, with 79.8% of homes within a 10-minute walk, far above the state average. In contrast, access to essentials is much harder, as only 35.8% of homes are within 15 minutes of groceries and just 22.6% can reach health services, both far below Queensland figures.
35.8%
Lower than 86% of urban area areas.
Share of local homes within a 15-minute walk of groceries or everyday shopping. Homes are counted as addresses (G-NAF), not people.
79.8%
Lower than 59% of urban area 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.
58.9%
Lower than 63% of urban area areas.
Share of local homes within a 15-minute walk of a school. Homes are counted as addresses (G-NAF), not people.
80.0%
Lower than 75% of urban area 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.
22.6%
Lower than 88% of urban area 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.
The area has a mean terrain slope of 7.9%, which is a little above the state average of 6.0%. There are 31 intersections per square kilometre, while the number of walkable amenities per 1,000 residents is a little below the Queensland figure.
11.9
Lower than 79% of urban area 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.
31
Higher than 70% of urban area areas.
Walkable street intersections per square kilometre. Denser, better-connected street grids give more direct routes on foot than winding, cul-de-sac layouts.
7.9%
Higher than 90% of urban area 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 Gympie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/3008/gympie/topic/walkability
