Is Renfrewshire walkable?

This page covers Renfrewshire: 177,000 people, including Paisley and Johnstone.

46/100Typical walking score where people live. It mixes the walk to eight daily needs with how pleasant the streets are.

47%Renfrewshire is better than this share of places where people live, across the 20 countries on the map.

103rdBy typical score, of the 105 cities in the United Kingdom on this site.

In Renfrewshire, the walk to a park is the strong point: 4 minutes for the typical building, better than most of Europe. The walk to a place to eat is the weak point: 11 minutes for the typical building, worse than most of Europe. Walking is easiest in Renfrew (score 66) and hardest in Crosslee (score 39): a gap of 27 points.

The walk to eight daily needs

The typical walk is the middle value: half of the buildings in Renfrewshire 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	10 min	About typical	90%
Food and drink	11 min	Worse than most	88%
Shops	10 min	Worse than most	88%
Health	13 min	About typical	80%
School	8 min	About typical	95%
Parks	4 min	Better than most	99%
Culture	14 min	About typical	77%
Public transport	4 min	About typical	98%

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 Renfrewshire, 35% of the street cells are in the most walkable fifth, more than the 20% of an average place.

Share of the street cells in Renfrewshire 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	Renfrewshire
Most walkable fifth		35%
Second fifth		28%
Middle fifth		13%
Fourth fifth		12%
Least walkable fifth		12%

The city at a glance

Each of the 2,127 hexagons groups the street cells within about 192 m of its centre and takes the shade of their middle fifth. The line is the boundary this page uses.

See Renfrewshire 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 16 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 Renfrewshire 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
Renfrew	66	78%
Johnstone	64	90%
Lochwinnoch	52	35%
Bridge of Weir	52	49%
Ferguslie Park	51	68%

Least walkable

Letters A to E on the map.
Area	Typical score	In the top fifth
Crosslee	39	17%
Brookfield	40	8%
Bishopton	42	19%
Linwood	44	45%
Elderslie	44	46%

Cities like Renfrewshire

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

City	Country	People	Typical score
Guimarães	Portugal	157,000	46
Linköping	Sweden	168,000	47
Aalborg	Denmark	203,000	45

What this page covers

This page uses the boundary of Renfrewshire as Eurostat, the EU's statistics office, draws it. Besides Renfrewshire itself, it takes in Paisley, Johnstone, Erskine, Elderslie, Bishopton, Linwood and smaller places. About 177,000 people live there (2018 figure). Inside it we scored 13,955 street cells with 54,000 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.