Walkability ranking · Greater Sydney
By walk score, the ten most walkable Greater Sydney suburbs are Alexandria, Annandale, Arncliffe, Artarmon, Ashfield, Auburn, Avalon Beach, Balgowlah, Balmain and Balmain East.
Updated 1 October 2026. Ranked from 509 Greater Sydney suburbs.
The ten, in order
Alexandria (2015) is about 5 km from the Sydney CBD. Its walk score is 100 out of 100, the highest in Greater Sydney, from the shops, transport stops and footpaths within walking distance of its centre. No house median is published for it yet. 9,649 people lived there at the 2021 Census.
Annandale (2038) is about 4 km from the Sydney CBD. Its walk score is 100 out of 100, the 2nd highest in Greater Sydney, from the shops, transport stops and footpaths within walking distance of its centre. No house median is published for it yet. 9,487 people lived there at the 2021 Census.
Arncliffe (2205) is about 10 km from the Sydney CBD. Its walk score is 100 out of 100, the 3rd highest in Greater Sydney, from the shops, transport stops and footpaths within walking distance of its centre. No house median is published for it yet. 12,023 people lived there at the 2021 Census.
Artarmon (2064) is about 7 km from the Sydney CBD. Its walk score is 100 out of 100, the 4th highest in Greater Sydney, from the shops, transport stops and footpaths within walking distance of its centre. No house median is published for it yet. 9,417 people lived there at the 2021 Census.
Ashfield (2131) is about 8 km from the Sydney CBD. Its walk score is 100 out of 100, the 5th highest in Greater Sydney, from the shops, transport stops and footpaths within walking distance of its centre. No house median is published for it yet. 23,012 people lived there at the 2021 Census.
Auburn (2144) is about 17 km from the Sydney CBD. Its walk score is 100 out of 100, the 6th highest in Greater Sydney, from the shops, transport stops and footpaths within walking distance of its centre. No house median is published for it yet. 39,333 people lived there at the 2021 Census.
Avalon Beach (2107) is about 29 km from the Sydney CBD. Its walk score is 100 out of 100, the 7th highest in Greater Sydney, from the shops, transport stops and footpaths within walking distance of its centre. No house median is published for it yet. 10,379 people lived there at the 2021 Census.
Balgowlah (2093) is about 9 km from the Sydney CBD. Its walk score is 100 out of 100, the 8th highest in Greater Sydney, from the shops, transport stops and footpaths within walking distance of its centre. No house median is published for it yet. 8,068 people lived there at the 2021 Census.
Balmain (2041) is about 3 km from the Sydney CBD. Its walk score is 100 out of 100, the 9th highest in Greater Sydney, from the shops, transport stops and footpaths within walking distance of its centre. No house median is published for it yet. 10,454 people lived there at the 2021 Census.
Balmain East (2041) is about 2 km from the Sydney CBD. Its walk score is 100 out of 100, the 10th highest in Greater Sydney, from the shops, transport stops and footpaths within walking distance of its centre. No house median is published for it yet. 1,900 people lived there at the 2021 Census.
| # | Suburb | Walk score | Median house price | 12-month change | Km to CBD | Profile |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alexandria 2015 | 100/100 | – | – | 5 | View profile → |
| 2 | Annandale 2038 | 100/100 | – | – | 4 | View profile → |
| 3 | Arncliffe 2205 | 100/100 | – | – | 10 | View profile → |
| 4 | Artarmon 2064 | 100/100 | – | – | 7 | View profile → |
| 5 | Ashfield 2131 | 100/100 | – | – | 8 | View profile → |
| 6 | Auburn 2144 | 100/100 | – | – | 17 | View profile → |
| 7 | Avalon Beach 2107 | 100/100 | – | – | 29 | View profile → |
| 8 | Balgowlah 2093 | 100/100 | – | – | 9 | View profile → |
| 9 | Balmain 2041 | 100/100 | – | – | 3 | View profile → |
| 10 | Balmain East 2041 | 100/100 | – | – | 2 | View profile → |
A dash means the suburb’s own page publishes no figure. “Area” marks an ABS statistical-area median.
Ranks 11 to 15 on the same rule, for a shortlist that runs past the ten.
Common questions
By walk score, the most walkable Greater Sydney suburbs of 1,000 or more residents are Alexandria (100 out of 100), Annandale (100 out of 100) and Arncliffe (100 out of 100). The score counts the shops, services, transport stops and pedestrian infrastructure within walking distance of the suburb's centre, from OpenStreetMap; 90 and above is exceptional. The ranking is drawn from 509 suburbs with a score.
None of the ten suburbs on this page has a published median house price yet. Prices are medians of house sales recorded by the NSW Valuer General. A suburb needs five recorded sales in the year before a median is published. A suburb's median is withheld where its source is a census proxy or where fewer than five sales were recorded, so a dash in the table means no figure, not a cheap one. Each suburb's own page says which, and lists the sales it holds.
We do not predict which suburbs will boom, and a rise over the last 12 months says what happened, not what will. What we can show is measured. The change is the 12-month movement in the median house price on the same sales as the median, and a change beyond 25% is left out as a small-sample artefact. The NSW growth ranking, linked below, lists every suburb with a measured change.
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