Is Middlesbrough walkable?

This page covers Middlesbrough: 153,000 people.

51/100Updated 29 October 2026 · map data of 27 October 2026

Walking score where people live

38%of Europe lives in lower-scoring places

101stof 118 cities in the United Kingdom on the map, tied with another city

In Middlesbrough, the walk to a school compares best with Europe: 6 minutes for the typical resident, about typical for Europe. The walk to a park compares least well with Europe: 6 minutes for the typical resident, worse than most of Europe. Easiest to walk: Middlehaven (76). Hardest: Stainton (34).

The city at a glance

See Middlesbrough 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	6 min	About typical	98%
Food and drink	6 min	About typical	99%
Shops	7 min	Worse than most	96%
Health	9 min	Worse than most	91%
School	6 min	About typical	99%
Parks	6 min	Worse than most	100%
Culture	14 min	Worse than most	71%
Public transport	4 min	About typical	100%

Compared with the rest of the country

60% of the streets in Middlesbrough 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	Middlesbrough
Most walkable 20%		60%
Above the middle		30%
Middle 20%		5%
Below the middle		3%
Lowest-scoring 20%		2%

Most walkable and lowest-scoring areas

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Most walkable

Numbers 1 to 5 on the map.
Area	Typical score
Middlehaven	76
Ayresome	68
North Ormesby	65
Linthorpe	61
Berwick Hills	53

Lowest overall score

Letters A to E on the map.
Area	Typical score
Stainton	34
Coulby Newham	48
Grove Hill	49
Acklam	49
Thorntree	53

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Cities like Middlesbrough

Cities of similar size and score.

City	Country	People	Typical score
Örebro	Sweden	160,000	51
Nuneaton and Bedworth	United Kingdom	144,000	50
East Staffordshire	United Kingdom	132,000	51

More cities in the United Kingdom

Stockton-on-Tees Darlington Sunderland South Tyneside Gateshead Newcastle upon Tyne North Tyneside York Leeds Bradford Wakefield Hull

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 Middlesbrough as Eurostat, the EU's statistics office, draws it. About 153,000 people live there (2025 figure). Inside it we scored 5,300 street cells with 7,446 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.