Peak Hill · 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.
A very high number of daily destinations are within easy reach in Peak Hill (L), making it very walkable. Almost every home is within a 15-minute walk of a school, park or health service, with 95.2% of residents having a 15-minute-city walkshed—a figure far above the New South Wales average.
All urban centre areas, 2021. The marker is Peak Hill — very walkable of areas.
| Peak Hill | 7.3 |
|---|---|
| 2869, NSW | 4.3 |
| New South Wales | 6.2 |
Share of homes (G-NAF addresses) in Peak Hill 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 area has a walkability score of 7.3, which is considered very walkable and a little above the state figure. This is reflected in the 7.7 amenity types available within a 15-minute walk, well above the 5.8 seen across New South Wales.
7.3
Very walkable 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.
7.7
Higher than 99% 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.
95.2%
Higher than 90% 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.
Access to essential services is exceptionally high; 98.5% of homes are within 15 minutes of health services, far above the state average. While almost all residents can easily walk to schools and parks, grocery access is slightly lower at 93.7%, though still far above the New South Wales figure.
93.7%
Higher than 86% 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.
86.6%
Higher than 79% 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.
98.6%
Higher than 96% 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.
98.6%
Higher than 77% 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.
98.5%
Higher than 99% 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.
The terrain in Peak Hill (L) is much flatter than the state average, with a mean slope of 3.7%. There are 34 intersections per square kilometre and 56 walkable amenities per 1,000 residents, which is far above the state figure of 14.7.
56.0
Higher than 90% 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.
34
Higher than 53% 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.
3.7%
Lower than 65% 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 Peak Hill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL121094/peak-hill/topic/walkability
