Is Maidstone walkable?

This page covers Maidstone: 169,000 people.

47/100Typical walking score where people live. It mixes the walk to eight daily needs with how pleasant the streets are.

50%Maidstone is better than this share of places where people live, across the 20 countries on the map.

101stBy typical score, of the 105 cities in the United Kingdom on this site.

In Maidstone, the walk to public transport is the strong point: 4 minutes for the typical building, about typical for Europe. The walk to health care is the weak point: 16 minutes for the typical building, about typical for Europe. Walking is easiest in Marden (score 64) and hardest in Loose (score 34): a gap of 30 points.

The walk to eight daily needs

The typical walk is the middle value: half of the buildings in Maidstone 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	9 min	About typical	78%
Food and drink	9 min	About typical	87%
Shops	9 min	About typical	84%
Health	16 min	About typical	57%
School	10 min	About typical	83%
Parks	6 min	About typical	90%
Culture	15 min	About typical	65%
Public transport	4 min	About typical	95%

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 Maidstone, 21% of the street cells are in the most walkable fifth, close to the 20% of an average place.

Share of the street cells in Maidstone in each fifth. The dashed line marks 20%, the share every fifth has in Great Britain.
Fifth of the street cells in Great Britain	Bar	Maidstone
Most walkable fifth		21%
Second fifth		25%
Middle fifth		24%
Fourth fifth		19%
Least walkable fifth		11%

The city at a glance

Each of the 2,244 hexagons groups the street cells within about 254 m of its centre and takes the shade of their middle fifth. The line is the boundary this page uses.

See Maidstone 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 11 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 Maidstone 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.
Area	Typical score	In the top fifth
Marden	64	39%
Coxheath	63	58%
Lenham	62	39%
Penenden Heath	53	84%
Ringlestone	51	69%

Least walkable

Letters A to E on the map.
Area	Typical score	In the top fifth
Loose	34	10%
Tovil	46	72%
Staplehurst	47	29%
Parkwood	49	64%
Shepway	50	78%

Cities like Maidstone

These three cities come closest to Maidstone in number of people and typical score, from any of the 20 countries. Maidstone scores higher than 2 of them and lower than 1.

City	Country	People	Typical score
Linköping	Sweden	168,000	47
Helsingborg	Sweden	152,000	48
Bergen	Norway	145,000	47

What this page covers

This page uses the boundary of Maidstone as Eurostat, the EU's statistics office, draws it. About 169,000 people live there (2018 figure). Inside it we scored 21,093 street cells with 20,955 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.