Is Cheltenham walkable?

This page covers Cheltenham: 117,000 people, including Prestbury.

63/100Updated 29 October 2026 · map data of 27 October 2026

Walking score where people live

57%of Europe lives in lower-scoring places

23rdof 118 cities in the United Kingdom on the map, tied with another city

In Cheltenham, the walk to public transport compares best with Europe: 2 minutes for the typical resident, better than most of Europe. The walk to a park compares least well with Europe: 4 minutes for the typical resident, about typical for Europe. Easiest to walk: St Paul’s (80). Hardest: Leckhampton (49).

The city at a glance

See Cheltenham on the map

On the map, click any street to see its score and the walk to each need.

The walk to eight daily needs

Minutes on foot for a typical resident.

Need	Typical walk	Compared with Europe	People with one within 20 min
Groceries	5 min	Better than most	100%
Food and drink	5 min	About typical	100%
Shops	5 min	About typical	100%
Health	6 min	Better than most	99%
School	5 min	About typical	100%
Parks	4 min	About typical	100%
Culture	8 min	Better than most	97%
Public transport	2 min	Better than most	100%

Compared with the rest of the country

77% of the streets in Cheltenham are among the most walkable 20% in Great Britain (the United Kingdom without Northern Ireland, which the map scores together with Ireland).

Dashed line: the average in Great Britain (20%).
Streets ranked in Great Britain	Bar	Cheltenham
Most walkable 20%		77%
Above the middle		13%
Middle 20%		6%
Below the middle		2%
Lowest-scoring 20%		3%

Most walkable and lowest-scoring areas

Click an area name to see it on the map.

Most walkable

Numbers 1 to 5 on the map.
Area	Typical score
St Paul’s	80
Montpellier	78
Fairview	76
Tivoli	74
Pittville	73

Lowest overall score

Letters A to E on the map.
Area	Typical score
Leckhampton	49
Springbank	52
Wymans Brook in Prestbury	56
Oakley	58
Benhall	58

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Cities like Cheltenham

Cities of similar size and score.

City	Country	People	Typical score
Bergisch Gladbach	Germany	111,000	63
Nyíregyháza	Hungary	115,000	63
Bottrop	Germany	119,000	62

More cities in the United Kingdom

Gloucester Worcester Swindon Warwick Oxford Solihull Bristol Bath and North East Somerset Birmingham Dudley Coventry Sandwell

What this page covers

Walkably gives places in Europe a walking score from 0 to 100, based on the walk to eight daily needs and how pleasant the streets are.

This page uses the boundary of Cheltenham as Eurostat, the EU's statistics office, draws it. Besides Cheltenham itself, it takes in Prestbury. About 117,000 people live there (2018 figure). Inside it we scored 4,583 street cells with 49,531 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%. Each place counts by the people who live there, from census counts: the typical score is the score of where people live. The comparison with Europe counts 466.8 million people. The score uses no data about who lives anywhere: no income, age, origin or other personal data. How the score works.