Mount Isa · 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.
Few essential services are within easy walking distance for Mount Isa, leaving the area mostly car-dependent. While almost every home is near a park, far fewer are within a 15-minute walk of groceries or health services. This means a typical resident is more likely to walk to a playground than to a doctor.
All urban centre areas, 2021. The marker is Mount Isa — mostly car-dependent of areas.
| Mount Isa | 2.7 |
|---|---|
| 4825 crosses QLD/NT | 2.6 |
| Queensland | 5.0 |
Share of homes (G-NAF addresses) in Mount Isa 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 for Mount Isa is 2.7, which means it is mostly car-dependent and far below the Queensland figure of 5.0. Only 24.2% of homes have a 15-minute-city walkshed, which is far below the state average of 59.1%.
2.7
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.
3.1
Lower than 71% 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.
24.2%
Lower than 64% 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 is a mixed bag: 93.6% of homes are within 15 minutes of a park and 83.6% are near a school, both far above Queensland levels. However, no homes are within 10 minutes of public transport, and access to groceries (26.9%) and health services (22.8%) is far below the state average.
26.9%
Lower than 64% 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.
0.0%
Lower than 99% 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.
83.6%
Higher than 68% 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.
93.6%
Higher than 53% 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.
22.8%
Higher than 51% 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 42 intersections per square kilometre, and the mean terrain slope is 3.7%, which is a little below the Queensland figure of 6.0%. The number of walkable amenities per 1,000 residents is 5.5, which is far below the state figure of 13.4.
5.5
Lower than 89% 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.
42
Higher than 64% 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 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 Mount Isa [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL313009/mount-isa/topic/walkability
