Is Namur walkable?

This page covers Namur: 117,000 people, including Jambes.

54/100Typical walking score where people live. It mixes the walk to eight daily needs with how pleasant the streets are.

60%Namur is better than this share of places where people live, across the 20 countries on the map.

9thBy typical score, of the 10 cities in Belgium on this site.

In Namur, the walk to public transport is the strong point: 2 minutes for the typical building, better than most of Europe. The walk to a park is the weak point: 7 minutes for the typical building, about typical for Europe. Walking is easiest in Jambes (score 80) and hardest in Loyers (score 32): a gap of 48 points.

The walk to eight daily needs

The typical walk is the middle value: half of the buildings in Namur 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	6 min	Better than most	89%
Food and drink	6 min	Better than most	89%
Shops	5 min	Better than most	90%
Health	7 min	Better than most	84%
School	8 min	About typical	87%
Parks	7 min	About typical	86%
Culture	9 min	Better than most	82%
Public transport	2 min	Better than most	99%

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 1,833,331 street cells in Belgium from hardest to easiest to walk, then cut the list into five equal groups, called fifths. In Namur, 31% of the street cells are in the most walkable fifth, more than the 20% of an average place.

Share of the street cells in Namur in each fifth. The dashed line marks 20%, the share every fifth has in Belgium.
Fifth of the street cells in Belgium	Bar	Namur
Most walkable fifth		31%
Second fifth		28%
Middle fifth		19%
Fourth fifth		13%
Least walkable fifth		9%

The city at a glance

Each of the 2,232 hexagons groups the street cells within about 167 m of its centre and takes the shade of their middle fifth. The line is the boundary this page uses.

See Namur 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 17 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 Namur 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 Belgium.
Area	Typical score	In the top fifth
Jambes	80	98%
Saint-Servais	72	83%
Bouge	63	83%
Belgrade	60	65%
Champion	53	58%

Least walkable

Letters A to E on the map.
Area	Typical score	In the top fifth
Loyers	32	0%
Suarlée	38	10%
Temploux	40	17%
Malonne	40	14%
Flawinne	41	19%

Cities like Namur

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

City	Country	People	Typical score
Siegen	Germany	103,000	54
Newcastle-under-Lyme	United Kingdom	129,000	53
Lund	Sweden	132,000	54

What this page covers

This page uses the boundary of Namur as Eurostat, the EU's statistics office, draws it. Besides Namur itself, it takes in Jambes. About 117,000 people live there (2025 figure). Inside it we scored 12,034 street cells with 44,966 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.