Proximity to everyday urban facilities is a component of housing quality that is unevenly distributed within cities, yet comparative research has focused on planned housing estates and on contrasts between subsidised and market housing. Much less is known about cities where housing is produced incrementally, as individual houses on narrow plots. This study examines how proximity to urban facilities varies across residential building typologies in Bình Thạnh, Ho Chi Minh City. Using building-level data for residential buildings and points of interest across five functional groups, we combine kernel density estimation, origin–destination linkage to the nearest facility, and local indicators of spatial association. First, facilities and housing typologies are only partially co-located: high-rise buildings coincide with the leisure and civic core in the south-east, single-family houses follow the dispersed pattern of daily-supply outlets, and a mid-rise cluster on the Bình Quới–Thanh Đa peninsula lies apart from every facility core. Second, typologies differ little in central tendency but markedly in the upper tail of the distribution. Most buildings in all groups lie within 400 m of a facility, with median distances of 23 m for high-rise, 33 m for mid-rise and 51 m for single-family housing, yet no multi-family building exceeds 800 m while 3.9% of single-family buildings exceed 400 m and 0.9% exceed 800 m. Third, these deficits are spatially clustered rather than scattered, forming contiguous zones on the peninsula interior and the northern fringe, alongside scattered local outliers within the well-served core. The disadvantaged group is therefore a peripheral minority within the dominant housing typology rather than a housing category as a whole. This qualifies the assumption that facility disadvantage aligns with housing type, and indicates that area-based and site-specific responses address different parts of the problem.
