Is Swansea walkable?

This page covers Swansea: 246,000 people, including Gorseinon and Pontarddulais.

48/100Updated 29 October 2026 · map data of 27 October 2026

Walking score where people live

35%of Europe lives in lower-scoring places

113thof 118 cities in the United Kingdom on the map

In Swansea, the walk to public transport compares best with Europe: 2 minutes for the typical resident, better than most of Europe. The walk to health care compares least well with Europe: 12 minutes for the typical resident, worse than most of Europe. Easiest to walk: Mount Pleasant in Castle (75). Hardest: Penllergaer (35).

The city at a glance

See Swansea 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	7 min	Worse than most	94%
Food and drink	6 min	About typical	95%
Shops	8 min	Worse than most	86%
Health	12 min	Worse than most	72%
School	7 min	About typical	95%
Parks	5 min	About typical	98%
Culture	12 min	About typical	79%
Public transport	2 min	Better than most	100%

Compared with the rest of the country

30% of the streets in Swansea 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	Swansea
Most walkable 20%		30%
Above the middle		30%
Middle 20%		19%
Below the middle		8%
Lowest-scoring 20%		12%

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
Mount Pleasant in Castle	75
Brynmill in Uplands	70
Gorseinon	68
Manselton in Cwmbwrla	67
Sketty	67

Lowest overall score

Letters A to E on the map.
Area	Typical score
Penllergaer	35
Mayals in Mumbles	37
Cwmrhydyceirw in Morriston	38
Winsh-wen in Bôn-y-maen	38
Clase in Mynyddbach	41

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Cities like Swansea

Cities of similar size and score.

City	Country	People	Typical score
Rochdale	United Kingdom	238,000	50
Rotherham	United Kingdom	279,000	50
Oulu	Finland	216,000	46

More cities in the United Kingdom

Cardiff Newport Bristol Exeter Bath and North East Somerset Gloucester Cheltenham Torbay Worcester Plymouth Swindon Telford and Wrekin

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 Swansea as Eurostat, the EU's statistics office, draws it. Besides Swansea itself, it takes in Gorseinon, Pontarddulais, Clydach, Loughor, Castle, Uplands and smaller places. About 246,000 people live there (2018 figure). Inside it we scored 20,183 street cells with 35,106 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.