Most walkable Adelaide suburbs

Kingswood tops the ranking, scoring 94 out of 100. The 15 listed score between 90 and 99, a spread of 9 points. These 15 suburbs came from a field of 354 eligible Adelaide suburbs.

This ranking scores every eligible Adelaide suburb on walkability — how much of daily life, from shops and schools to transport stops and parks, sits within walking distance of the average address.

Walkability is scored against the other Adelaide suburbs rather than on an absolute scale, so a Adelaide "top 5%" means the most walkable places in this city, not this city measured against Sydney. That matters: Australian cities differ enormously in how they were built, and an absolute cut-off would hand the older, denser cities a long list and the younger ones almost nothing — which tells a reader choosing between suburbs in one city nothing at all. Safety enters as a small secondary factor, because the most walkable parts of any city skew to dense inner cores. A high score means errands are walkable, not that a suburb is quiet.

Most walkable suburbs in Adelaide

Ranked on the walkability score — how much of daily life (shops, schools, transport stops, parks) sits within walking distance — percentile-ranked within the city's pool, with a small safety leg.

1

Kingswood

SA 5062 · 2,554 residents

94/100 walkability · more walkable than 98% of Adelaide · 75/100 safety

A+ 94.6
2

Mile End

SA 5031 · 4,536 residents

96/100 walkability · among the most walkable in Adelaide · 66/100 safety

A 94.5
3

Blackwood

SA 5051 · 4,266 residents

95/100 walkability · more walkable than 99% of Adelaide · 65/100 safety

A 93.8
4

West Hindmarsh

SA 5007 · 1,560 residents

96/100 walkability · among the most walkable in Adelaide · 57/100 safety

A 93.2
5

Adelaide

SA 5000 · 18,202 residents

99/100 walkability · among the most walkable in Adelaide · 54/100 safety

B 93.0
6

Plympton Park

SA 5038 · 3,881 residents

93/100 walkability · more walkable than 97% of Adelaide · 70/100 safety

A 93.0
7

Glenelg South

SA 5045 · 2,184 residents

95/100 walkability · more walkable than 99% of Adelaide · 49/100 safety

B 91.3
8

Brompton

SA 5007 · 3,729 residents

94/100 walkability · more walkable than 98% of Adelaide · 49/100 safety

B 90.6
9

Plympton

SA 5038 · 5,459 residents

92/100 walkability · more walkable than 96% of Adelaide · 61/100 safety

B 90.6
10

Glenelg East

SA 5045 · 3,855 residents

93/100 walkability · more walkable than 97% of Adelaide · 54/100 safety

A 90.5
11

Salisbury

SA 5108 · 8,841 residents

95/100 walkability · more walkable than 99% of Adelaide · 42/100 safety

D 90.4
12

Kensington Park

SA 5068 · 2,627 residents

90/100 walkability · more walkable than 92% of Adelaide · 80/100 safety

A+ 90.3
13

Welland

SA 5007 · 881 residents

94/100 walkability · more walkable than 98% of Adelaide · 45/100 safety

B 90.1
14

Hyde Park

SA 5061 · 1,660 residents

92/100 walkability · more walkable than 96% of Adelaide · 58/100 safety

A+ 90.0
15

Norwood

SA 5067 · 6,354 residents

92/100 walkability · more walkable than 96% of Adelaide · 50/100 safety

A 88.9

Ranked from 354 qualifying suburbs.

How we ranked these

85% walkability · 15% safety (bushfire, crime, flood combined). Walkability measures how much of daily life — shops, schools, transport stops, parks — sits within walking distance of the average address, and is turned into a percentile within Adelaide's candidate pool rather than judged against a national cut-off, because Australian cities differ enormously in how they were built. Safety is a small leg only: the most walkable parts of any city are its dense inner areas, so it nudges the order without overturning it. A suburb with no walkability score is excluded rather than ranked last. See how we calculate for the full methodology.

Common questions about this ranking

What are the most walkable Adelaide suburbs?

Kingswood tops the ranking, scoring 94 out of 100. The 15 listed score between 90 and 99, a spread of 9 points. These 15 suburbs came from a field of 354 eligible Adelaide suburbs.

How is walkability measured?

The score reflects how much of daily life sits within walking distance of the average address in a suburb — shops, schools, transport stops, parks and other everyday destinations. It is a 0-100 figure per suburb, and it describes the suburb as a whole, so a long street on the edge of a walkable suburb may still feel car-dependent.

Why are these ranked against other Adelaide suburbs?

Walkability is percentile-ranked within Adelaide's candidate pool rather than against an absolute national cut-off. Australian cities were built in different eras and differ enormously in density, so an absolute threshold would return a long list in the older cities and almost nothing in the younger ones — useless to a reader choosing between Adelaide suburbs. A Adelaide top-ranked suburb is the most walkable in Adelaide.

Does a high score mean the suburb is quiet?

No — often the opposite. The most walkable parts of any Australian city are its dense inner areas, which tend to be busier, noisier and more built up. The score answers "can I get to things on foot", not "is it peaceful". Safety carries 15% of the ranking against walkability's 85%, which nudges the order without overriding it — so read the risk figures on each suburb's own page before deciding.

Which suburbs are eligible?

Suburbs in Adelaide with a population of at least 500 and a walkability score on record. A suburb with no score is left out rather than ranked last — unmeasured is not the same as unwalkable — and the top 15 are shown.

Same list in other cities

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Rankings last computed 28 September 2026. Recomputed after each ACARA schools data refresh.

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