Is Bottrop walkable?

This page covers Bottrop: 119,000 people, including Kirchhellen.

61/100Typical walking score where people live. It mixes the walk to eight daily needs with how pleasant the streets are.

71%Bottrop is better than this share of places where people live, across the 20 countries on the map.

72ndBy typical score, of the 84 cities in Germany on this site.

In Bottrop, the walk to a park is the strong point: 3 minutes for the typical building, better than most of Europe. The walk to culture is the weak point: 13 minutes for the typical building, about typical for Europe. Walking is easiest in Batenbrock (score 64) and hardest in Hardinghausen (score 32): a gap of 32 points.

The walk to eight daily needs

The typical walk is the middle value: half of the buildings in Bottrop 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	7 min	Better than most	96%
Food and drink	6 min	Better than most	99%
Shops	6 min	Better than most	98%
Health	9 min	Better than most	91%
School	6 min	Better than most	97%
Parks	3 min	Better than most	99%
Culture	13 min	About typical	73%
Public transport	3 min	Better than most	100%

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 21,716,445 street cells in Germany from hardest to easiest to walk, then cut the list into five equal groups, called fifths. In Bottrop, 61% of the street cells are in the most walkable fifth, more than the 20% of an average place.

Share of the street cells in Bottrop in each fifth. The dashed line marks 20%, the share every fifth has in Germany.
Fifth of the street cells in Germany	Bar	Bottrop
Most walkable fifth		61%
Second fifth		20%
Middle fifth		8%
Fourth fifth		7%
Least walkable fifth		3%

The city at a glance

Each of the 2,229 hexagons groups the street cells within about 126 m of its centre and takes the shade of their middle fifth. The line is the boundary this page uses.

See Bottrop 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 12 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 Bottrop 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 Germany.
Area	Typical score	In the top fifth
Batenbrock	64	93%
Kirchhellen	64	91%
Vonderort	62	98%
Eigen	60	89%
Boy	60	96%

Least walkable

Letters A to E on the map.
Area	Typical score	In the top fifth
Hardinghausen	32	7%
Overhagen	36	24%
Holthausen	41	36%
Grafenwald	50	64%
Ebel	52	85%

Cities like Bottrop

These three cities come closest to Bottrop in number of people and typical score, from any of the 20 countries. All three score higher than Bottrop.

City	Country	People	Typical score
Trento	Italy	119,000	61
Cork	Ireland	119,000	61
Bremerhaven	Germany	119,000	62

What this page covers

This page uses the boundary of Bottrop as Eurostat, the EU's statistics office, draws it. Besides Bottrop itself, it takes in Kirchhellen. About 119,000 people live there (2025 figure). Inside it we scored 8,226 street cells with 58,427 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.