Most walkable Hobart suburbs

The suburb of Hobart tops the ranking, scoring 95 out of 100. The 15 listed score between 65 and 95, a spread of 30 points. These 15 suburbs came from a field of 61 eligible Hobart suburbs.

This ranking scores every eligible Hobart 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 Hobart suburbs rather than on an absolute scale, so a Hobart "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 Hobart

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

Hobart

TAS 7000 · 3,390 residents

95/100 walkability · among the most walkable in Hobart · 100/100 safety

A 100.0
2

Battery Point

TAS 7004 · 2,096 residents

93/100 walkability · more walkable than 98% of Hobart · 100/100 safety

A+ 98.6
3

North Hobart

TAS 7000 · 2,600 residents

92/100 walkability · more walkable than 97% of Hobart · 100/100 safety

A+ 97.2
4

Moonah

TAS 7009 · 5,884 residents

90/100 walkability · more walkable than 95% of Hobart · 100/100 safety

A+ 95.8
5

Glebe

TAS 7000 · 570 residents

88/100 walkability · more walkable than 92% of Hobart · 100/100 safety

A+ 92.9
6

New Town

TAS 7008 · 6,781 residents

86/100 walkability · more walkable than 88% of Hobart · 100/100 safety

A+ 90.1
7

Bellerive

TAS 7018 · 4,945 residents

87/100 walkability · more walkable than 90% of Hobart · 63/100 safety

A+ 86.0
8

Montagu Bay

TAS 7018 · 718 residents

74/100 walkability · more walkable than 87% of Hobart · 48/100 safety

A 80.9
9

Derwent Park

TAS 7009 · 872 residents

71/100 walkability · more walkable than 81% of Hobart · 78/100 safety

C 80.4
10

Mount Stuart

TAS 7000 · 2,444 residents

89/100 walkability · more walkable than 93% of Hobart · 0/100 safety

A 79.3
11

Rosny

TAS 7018 · 842 residents

71/100 walkability · more walkable than 81% of Hobart · 56/100 safety

A+ 77.1
12

West Hobart

TAS 7000 · 6,525 residents

73/100 walkability · more walkable than 85% of Hobart · 2/100 safety

A 72.5
13

Sandy Bay

TAS 7005 · 12,315 residents

72/100 walkability · more walkable than 83% of Hobart · 3/100 safety

A 71.3
14

Rose Bay

TAS 7015 · 1,188 residents

65/100 walkability · more walkable than 75% of Hobart · 50/100 safety

A 71.2
15

Howrah

TAS 7018 · 9,545 residents

69/100 walkability · more walkable than 78% of Hobart · 3/100 safety

B 67.0

Ranked from 61 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 Hobart'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 Hobart suburbs?

The suburb of Hobart tops the ranking, scoring 95 out of 100. The 15 listed score between 65 and 95, a spread of 30 points. These 15 suburbs came from a field of 61 eligible Hobart 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 Hobart suburbs?

Walkability is percentile-ranked within Hobart'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 Hobart suburbs. A Hobart top-ranked suburb is the most walkable in Hobart.

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 Hobart 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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