Is St. Helens walkable?

This page covers St. Helens: 190,000 people, including Earlestown and Newton-le-Willows.

58/100Updated 29 October 2026 · map data of 27 October 2026

Walking score where people live

49%of Europe lives in lower-scoring places

52ndof 118 cities in the United Kingdom on the map, tied with another city

In St. Helens, 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: 5 minutes for the typical resident, about typical for Europe. Easiest to walk: Fingerpost (75). Hardest: Old Boston (34).

The city at a glance

See St. Helens 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	About typical	98%
Food and drink	5 min	About typical	100%
Shops	5 min	About typical	100%
Health	8 min	About typical	96%
School	6 min	About typical	98%
Parks	5 min	About typical	99%
Culture	9 min	About typical	92%
Public transport	2 min	Better than most	100%

Compared with the rest of the country

56% of the streets in St. Helens 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	St. Helens
Most walkable 20%		56%
Above the middle		28%
Middle 20%		10%
Below the middle		3%
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
Fingerpost	75
Newtown	74
Gerard's Bridge	72
Cowley Hill	70
Broad Oak	65

Lowest overall score

Letters A to E on the map.
Area	Typical score
Old Boston	34
Haydock	45
Brown Edge	48
Blackbrook	51
Rainhill	51

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Cities like St. Helens

Cities of similar size and score.

City	Country	People	Typical score
Trondheim	Norway	217,000	59
Haarlemmermeer	Netherlands	163,000	59
Linköping	Sweden	168,000	57

More cities in the United Kingdom

Warrington Wigan Halton Liverpool Bolton Sefton Trafford Salford Wirral Manchester Bury Cheshire West and Chester

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 St. Helens as Eurostat, the EU's statistics office, draws it. Besides St. Helens itself, it takes in Earlestown, Newton-le-Willows and St Helens. About 190,000 people live there (2025 figure). Inside it we scored 10,040 street cells with 22,529 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.