Is East Staffordshire walkable?

This page covers East Staffordshire: 118,000 people, including Burton upon Trent and Uttoxeter.

49/100Typical walking score where people live. It mixes the walk to eight daily needs with how pleasant the streets are.
53%East Staffordshire is better than this share of places where people live, across the 20 countries on the map.
97thBy typical score, of the 105 cities in the United Kingdom on this site.

In East Staffordshire, the walk to public transport is the strong point: 3 minutes for the typical building, better than most of Europe. The walk to shops is the weak point: 8 minutes for the typical building, about typical for Europe. Walking is easiest in Horninglow (score 59) and hardest in Tutbury (score 50): a gap of 9 points.

The walk to eight daily needs

The typical walk is the middle value: half of the buildings in East Staffordshire 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.

NeedTypical walkCompared with EuropeBuildings with one within 20 min
Groceries7 minBetter than most84%
Food and drink7 minBetter than most93%
Shops8 minAbout typical81%
Health12 minAbout typical68%
School8 minAbout typical86%
Parks5 minBetter than most93%
Culture12 minAbout typical70%
Public transport3 minBetter than most96%

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 East Staffordshire, 17% of the street cells are in the most walkable fifth, close to the 20% of an average place.

Share of the street cells in East Staffordshire in each fifth. The dashed line marks 20%, the share every fifth has in Great Britain.
Fifth of the street cells in Great BritainBarEast Staffordshire
Most walkable fifth
17%
Second fifth
23%
Middle fifth
26%
Fourth fifth
25%
Least walkable fifth
9%

The city at a glance

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Each of the 2,580 hexagons groups the street cells within about 221 m of its centre and takes the shade of their middle fifth. The line is the boundary this page uses.
See East Staffordshire on the map

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 9 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 East Staffordshire as a whole, so ports, hill parks and farmland drop out. Click a name to open it on the map.

Most walkable

Numbers 1 to 5 on the map. In the top fifth: share of the area’s street cells in the most walkable fifth in Great Britain.
AreaTypical scoreIn the top fifth
5948%
5758%
5672%
5659%

Least walkable

Letters A to E on the map.
AreaTypical scoreIn the top fifth
5046%
5258%
5378%
5350%

Cities like East Staffordshire

These three cities come closest to East Staffordshire in number of people and typical score, from any of the 20 countries. East Staffordshire scores higher than all three.

CityCountryPeopleTypical score
ForlìItaly118,00049
Nuneaton and BedworthUnited Kingdom129,00049
La Seyne-sur-MerFrance119,00049

What this page covers

This page uses the boundary of East Staffordshire as Eurostat, the EU's statistics office, draws it. Besides East Staffordshire itself, it takes in Burton upon Trent and Uttoxeter. About 118,000 people live there (2018 figure). Inside it we scored 17,455 street cells with 20,057 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.