Is Innsbruck walkable?

This page covers Innsbruck: 125,000 people.

71/100Typical walking score where people live. It mixes the walk to eight daily needs with how pleasant the streets are.
86%Innsbruck is better than this share of places where people live, across the 20 countries on the map.
1stHighest typical score of the 5 cities in Austria on this site.

In Innsbruck, the walk to health care is the strong point: 4 minutes for the typical building, much better than most of Europe. Its weakest point against Europe is the walk to a park, and even that is 3 minutes for the typical building, better than most of Europe. Walking is easiest in Wilten (score 83) and hardest in Hungerburg (score 41): a gap of 42 points.

The walk to eight daily needs

The typical walk is the middle value: half of the buildings in Innsbruck 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.

NeedTypical walkCompared with EuropeBuildings with one within 20 min
Groceries4 minMuch better than most96%
Food and drink3 minMuch better than most100%
Shops3 minMuch better than most98%
Health4 minMuch better than most99%
School4 minMuch better than most98%
Parks3 minBetter than most99%
Culture7 minBetter than most93%
Public transport2 minMuch better than most99%

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 4,714,652 street cells in Austria from hardest to easiest to walk, then cut the list into five equal groups, called fifths. In Innsbruck, 65% of the street cells are in the most walkable fifth, more than the 20% of an average place.

Share of the street cells in Innsbruck in each fifth. The dashed line marks 20%, the share every fifth has in Austria.
Fifth of the street cells in AustriaBarInnsbruck
Most walkable fifth
65%
Second fifth
8%
Middle fifth
8%
Fourth fifth
6%
Least walkable fifth
13%

The city at a glance

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Each of the 2,400 hexagons groups the street cells within about 110 m of its centre and takes the shade of their middle fifth. The line is the boundary this page uses.
See Innsbruck 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 10 areas where people live: each has at least 200 street cells and 427 buildings, and at least a quarter as many buildings per street cell as Innsbruck as a whole, so ports, hill parks and farmland drop out. Click a name to open it on the map.

Even Hungerburg, the least walkable area here, has 81% of its street cells in the most walkable fifth in Austria. Innsbruck walks far better than most of the country, so even its weakest areas beat most other places.

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 Austria.
AreaTypical scoreIn the top fifth
8397%
7997%
7297%
7295%
6683%

Least walkable

Letters A to E on the map.
AreaTypical scoreIn the top fifth
4181%
5786%
5972%
6289%
6477%

Cities like Innsbruck

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

CityCountryPeopleTypical score
SyracuseItaly116,00071
GöttingenGermany127,00070
ZoetermeerNetherlands128,00070

What this page covers

This page uses the boundary of Innsbruck as Eurostat, the EU's statistics office, draws it. About 125,000 people live there (2014 figure). Inside it we scored 7,312 street cells with 18,925 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.