Palm Island · 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.
Almost no homes in Palm Island have easy walking access to a variety of daily services. While nearly half of residents can reach health services or a school within 15 minutes, the area is otherwise very car-dependent with very few amenities nearby.
Share of homes (G-NAF addresses) in Palm Island 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 is car-dependent, with a typical resident having access to only 1.5 types of amenities within a 15-minute walk. This is far below the Queensland figure of 4.8, and no homes here have a full 15-minute-city walkshed.
1.5
Lower than 87% 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.
0.0%
Lower than 99% 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 basics is limited; 0% of homes are within a 15-minute walk of groceries or public transport, both far below state levels. In contrast, health services are more reachable, with 47.4% of homes within a 15-minute walk, which is about the same as the Queensland figure.
0.0%
Lower than 99% 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.
47.9%
Lower than 65% 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.
7.0%
Lower than 98% 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.
47.4%
Higher than 60% 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.
Steeper terrain makes getting around harder, with a mean slope of 9.5% compared to 6.0% for Queensland. There are 2 intersections per square kilometre, and the number of walkable amenities per 1,000 residents is far below the state figure.
3.3
Lower than 93% 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.
2
Lower than 99% 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.
9.5%
Higher than 89% 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 Palm Island [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315077/palm-island/topic/walkability
