Lake Cathie · Urban Centre
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.
Parks are the only easy destination for many in Lake Cathie, where 94% of homes are within a 15-minute walk of green space. Other everyday needs are much harder to reach on foot, making the area mostly car-dependent for the typical resident.
All urban centre areas, 2021. The marker is Lake Cathie — mostly car-dependent of areas.
| Lake Cathie | 3.4 |
|---|---|
| 2445, NSW | 3.4 |
| New South Wales | 6.2 |
Share of homes (G-NAF addresses) in Lake Cathie 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 3.4, which means the area is mostly car-dependent and far below the New South Wales figure. Only 37.6% of homes have a 15-minute-city walkshed, a result far below the state average.
3.4
Mostly car-dependent of urban centre 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.
3.7
Lower than 63% of urban centre 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.
37.6%
Lower than 61% of urban centre 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.
While nearly all homes are close to a park, access to other services is far below the state average, including groceries (37.6%), schools (44.3%), and public transport (32.1%). Only 6% of homes are within a 5-minute walk of health services.
37.6%
Lower than 61% of urban centre areas.
Share of local homes within a 15-minute walk of groceries or everyday shopping. Homes are counted as addresses (G-NAF), not people.
32.1%
Lower than 59% of urban centre 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.
44.3%
Lower than 67% of urban centre areas.
Share of local homes within a 15-minute walk of a school. Homes are counted as addresses (G-NAF), not people.
94.0%
Higher than 54% of urban centre 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.
37.1%
Higher than 55% of urban centre 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 84 intersections per square kilometre and a mean terrain slope of 5.7%, which is a little below the New South Wales figure. The number of walkable amenities per 1,000 residents is far below the state average.
7.9
Lower than 83% of urban centre 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.
84
Higher than 88% of urban centre areas.
Walkable street intersections per square kilometre. Denser, better-connected street grids give more direct routes on foot than winding, cul-de-sac layouts.
5.7%
Higher than 64% of urban centre 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 Lake Cathie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115096/lake-cathie/topic/walkability
