Placid Hills · Urban Centre

Walkability in Placid Hills

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.

Zero amenities are within a 15-minute walk for residents of Placid Hills (L), making it a completely car-dependent area. The walkability score is 0.0, which is far below the Queensland figure of 5.0. Every single home in the area is more than 30 minutes away from the nearest shop, school, or park.

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Where Placid Hills sits — Walkability score

0.0 Car-dependent
  • 0.0–0.3: 67 areas
  • 0.3–0.6: 47 areas
  • 0.6–0.9: 42 areas
  • 0.9–1.1: 49 areas
  • 1.1–1.4: 52 areas
  • 1.4–1.7: 48 areas
  • 1.7–2.0: 50 areas
  • 2.0–2.3: 49 areas
  • 2.3–2.6: 57 areas
  • 2.6–2.9: 51 areas
  • 2.9–3.1: 67 areas
  • 3.1–3.4: 64 areas
  • 3.4–3.7: 71 areas
  • 3.7–4.0: 96 areas
  • 4.0–4.3: 85 areas
  • 4.3–4.6: 89 areas
  • 4.6–4.9: 105 areas
  • 4.9–5.1: 100 areas
  • 5.1–5.4: 105 areas
  • 5.4–5.7: 124 areas
  • 5.7–6.0: 100 areas
  • 6.0–6.3: 92 areas
  • 6.3–6.6: 66 areas
  • 6.6–6.9: 56 areas
  • 6.9–7.1: 32 areas
  • 7.1–7.4: 19 areas
  • 7.4–7.7: 9 areas
  • 7.7–8.0: 6 areas

All urban centre areas, 2021. The marker is Placid Hills — car-dependent of areas.

Walkability score compared with the state and national average
Placid Hills0.0
4343, QLD 2.7
Queensland 5.0

Walking times to everyday amenities

Share of homes (G-NAF addresses) in Placid Hills by walking time to the nearest amenity of each type, on an elevation-aware pedestrian network. How we calculate this →

The score

The overall walkability score and how much of daily life is a short walk away.

The walkability score is 0.0, meaning the area is car-dependent. This is far below the Queensland average of 5.0, with 0% of homes having a 15-minute-city walkshed compared to 59.1% across the state.

0.0

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.

0.0

Lower 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.

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.

What's in walking distance

How many homes can walk to groceries, transport, schools, parks and health services.

No homes are within a 15-minute walk of a park, school, grocery store, or health service, all of which are far below state figures. Every home in the area is more than a 30-minute walk from public transport, food and drink, and health services.

Streets & terrain

Amenity density, how well the streets connect, and how hilly the walk is.

The area has 11 intersections per square kilometre and a typical terrain slope of 4.4%, which is a little below the Queensland figure of 6.0%. There are no walkable amenities per 1,000 residents, far below the state figure of 13.4.

0.0

Lower than 99% 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.

4.4%

Lower than 53% 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.

Sources

  • Walkability (OpenStreetMap, GTFS, ACARA & G-NAF, via Valhalla) — OpenStreetMap contributors, state transport agencies, ACARA & Geoscape Australia, 2026 (ODbL 1.0 + CC BY).

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Cite this page

Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Walkability in Placid Hills [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL322098/placid-hills/topic/walkability