WalkablyIs Blackburn with Darwen walkable?
This page covers Blackburn with Darwen: 149,000 people, including Blackburn and Darwen.
In Blackburn with Darwen, the walk to public transport is the strong point: 2 minutes for the typical building, much better than most of Europe. The walk to culture is the weak point: most buildings have none within 20 minutes. Walking is easiest in Blackburn (score 70) and hardest in Beardwood (score 36): a gap of 34 points.
The walk to eight daily needs
The typical walk is the middle value: half of the buildings in Blackburn with Darwen have a shorter walk, and half have a longer one. The words compare it with every place where people live in the 20 countries on the map, so the same minutes get the same word everywhere.
| Need | Typical walk | Compared with Europe | Buildings with one within 20 min |
|---|---|---|---|
| Groceries | 8 min | Better than most | 89% |
| Food and drink | 6 min | Better than most | 97% |
| Shops | 6 min | Better than most | 92% |
| Health | 10 min | Better than most | 86% |
| School | 6 min | Better than most | 97% |
| Parks | 5 min | Better than most | 98% |
| Culture | 22 min | Nothing within 20 minutes for most buildings | 46% |
| Public transport | 2 min | Much better than most | 100% |
Compared with the rest of the country
The map is cut into six-sided cells 55 m across, and every cell that a street passes through gets a score: we call these street cells. We sort all 8,553,993 street cells in Great Britain (the United Kingdom without Northern Ireland, which the map scores together with Ireland) from hardest to easiest to walk, then cut the list into five equal groups, called fifths. In Blackburn with Darwen, 32% of the street cells are in the most walkable fifth, more than the 20% of an average place.
| Fifth of the street cells in Great Britain | Bar | Blackburn with Darwen |
|---|---|---|
| Most walkable fifth | 32% | |
| Second fifth | 28% | |
| Middle fifth | 15% | |
| Fourth fifth | 16% | |
| Least walkable fifth | 8% |
The city at a glance
On the map, click any street to see its score and the walk to each need.
The most and least walkable areas
Each street cell takes the name of the nearest neighbourhood, village or town on OpenStreetMap, up to 1.5 km away. We rank the 10 areas where people live: each has at least 200 street cells and 500 buildings, and at least a quarter as many buildings per street cell as Blackburn with Darwen as a whole, so ports, hill parks and farmland drop out. Click a name to open it on the map.
Most walkable
| Area | Typical score | In the top fifth |
|---|---|---|
| 70 | 98% | |
| 65 | 100% | |
| 60 | 95% | |
| 56 | 30% | |
| 53 | 54% |
Least walkable
| Area | Typical score | In the top fifth |
|---|---|---|
| 36 | 24% | |
| 38 | 19% | |
| 48 | 32% | |
| 50 | 41% | |
| 52 | 73% |
Cities like Blackburn with Darwen
These three cities come closest to Blackburn with Darwen in number of people and typical score, from any of the 20 countries. Blackburn with Darwen scores higher than 2 of them and lower than 1.
| City | Country | People | Typical score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Guildford | United Kingdom | 148,000 | 55 |
| Aix-en-Provence | France | 150,000 | 53 |
| Lens | France | 179,000 | 54 |
What this page covers
This page uses the boundary of Blackburn with Darwen as Eurostat, the EU's statistics office, draws it. Besides Blackburn with Darwen itself, it takes in Blackburn and Darwen. About 149,000 people live there (2018 figure). Inside it we scored 9,492 street cells with 24,549 buildings in them.
Every number here comes from the same scores as the map. The score runs from 0 to 100. The walk to eight daily needs on real streets makes up 60% of it, and how pleasant the streets are makes up 40%. The comparison with Europe counts every place by its buildings, 163,668,724 buildings in all. How the score works.