Most walkable Toowoomba suburbs

Toowoomba City tops the ranking, scoring 92 out of 100. The 15 listed score between 41 and 92, a spread of 51 points. These 15 suburbs came from a field of 35 eligible Toowoomba suburbs.

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

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

Toowoomba City

QLD 4350 · 2,321 residents

92/100 walkability · among the most walkable in Toowoomba · 50/100 safety

D 92.6
2

Newtown

QLD 4350 · 10,039 residents

85/100 walkability · more walkable than 97% of Toowoomba · 57/100 safety

B 91.0
3

North Toowoomba

QLD 4350 · 3,332 residents

84/100 walkability · more walkable than 94% of Toowoomba · 61/100 safety

C 89.2
4

Centenary Heights

QLD 4350 · 6,152 residents

81/100 walkability · more walkable than 90% of Toowoomba · 78/100 safety

A 88.0
5

Wilsonton

QLD 4350 · 5,891 residents

81/100 walkability · more walkable than 90% of Toowoomba · 59/100 safety

C 85.1
6

Rangeville

QLD 4350 · 8,668 residents

80/100 walkability · more walkable than 85% of Toowoomba · 76/100 safety

A 83.9
7

East Toowoomba

QLD 4350 · 5,953 residents

74/100 walkability · more walkable than 81% of Toowoomba · 67/100 safety

B 78.8
8

Rockville

QLD 4350 · 3,204 residents

74/100 walkability · more walkable than 81% of Toowoomba · 64/100 safety

C 78.4
9

Harristown

QLD 4350 · 9,081 residents

72/100 walkability · more walkable than 76% of Toowoomba · 62/100 safety

B 74.3
10

Harlaxton

QLD 4350 · 2,824 residents

70/100 walkability · more walkable than 72% of Toowoomba · 58/100 safety

D 70.0
11

South Toowoomba

QLD 4350 · 5,512 residents

70/100 walkability · more walkable than 72% of Toowoomba · 58/100 safety

C 69.9
12

Kearneys Spring

QLD 4350 · 9,419 residents

69/100 walkability · more walkable than 66% of Toowoomba · 64/100 safety

B 65.9
13

Middle Ridge

QLD 4350 · 7,595 residents

68/100 walkability · more walkable than 62% of Toowoomba · 86/100 safety

A 65.3
14

Wilsonton Heights

QLD 4350 · 2,747 residents

69/100 walkability · more walkable than 66% of Toowoomba · 60/100 safety

C 65.3
15

Glenvale

QLD 4350 · 8,120 residents

41/100 walkability · more walkable than 59% of Toowoomba · 70/100 safety

B 60.4

Ranked from 35 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 Toowoomba'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 Toowoomba suburbs?

Toowoomba City tops the ranking, scoring 92 out of 100. The 15 listed score between 41 and 92, a spread of 51 points. These 15 suburbs came from a field of 35 eligible Toowoomba 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 Toowoomba suburbs?

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

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 Toowoomba 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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