Drouin · 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 typical slope of 7.7% makes Drouin a little steeper than the Victorian average, contributing to a walkability score of 4.6, which is considered somewhat walkable. While most people can easily reach a park, far fewer homes have a 15-minute walk to essential services like groceries or health clinics compared to the rest of the state.
All urban centre areas, 2021. The marker is Drouin — somewhat walkable of areas.
Share of homes (G-NAF addresses) in Drouin 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 43.9% of homes in Drouin have a 15-minute-city walkshed, a figure far below the 74.3% seen across Victoria. The area's overall walkability score is 4.6, which is well below the state figure of 6.4.
4.6
Somewhat 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.
4.5
Lower than 52% 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.
43.9%
Lower than 59% 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.
Walking to a park is common, with 92.2% of homes nearby, but access to health services (33.7%) and groceries (43.7%) is far below state levels. Public transport is more accessible, with 70.9% of homes within a 10-minute walk, though this is still far below the Victorian average of 83.9%.
43.7%
Lower than 59% 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.
70.9%
Higher than 64% 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.
57.6%
Lower than 59% 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.
92.2%
Lower than 51% 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.
33.7%
Higher than 54% 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.
Drouin has 66 intersections per square kilometre. The number of walkable amenities per 1,000 residents is 10.9, which is well below the Victorian figure of 15.7.
10.9
Lower than 74% 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.
66
Higher than 84% 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.
7.7%
Higher than 82% 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 Drouin [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL213004/drouin/topic/walkability
