Is Gütersloh walkable?

This page covers Gütersloh: 100,000 people.

60/100Typical walking score where people live. It mixes the walk to eight daily needs with how pleasant the streets are.

70%Gütersloh is better than this share of places where people live, across the 20 countries on the map.

76thBy typical score, of the 84 cities in Germany on this site.

In Gütersloh, the walk to public transport 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 Kattenstroth (score 67) and hardest in Hollen (score 32): a gap of 35 points.

The walk to eight daily needs

The typical walk is the middle value: half of the buildings in Gütersloh 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	95%
Food and drink	6 min	Better than most	95%
Shops	5 min	Better than most	95%
Health	10 min	Better than most	87%
School	6 min	Better than most	95%
Parks	4 min	Better than most	97%
Culture	13 min	About typical	76%
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 Gütersloh, 57% of the street cells are in the most walkable fifth, more than the 20% of an average place.

Share of the street cells in Gütersloh in each fifth. The dashed line marks 20%, the share every fifth has in Germany.
Fifth of the street cells in Germany	Bar	Gütersloh
Most walkable fifth		57%
Second fifth		19%
Middle fifth		13%
Fourth fifth		9%
Least walkable fifth		2%

The city at a glance

Each of the 2,503 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 Gütersloh 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 500 buildings, and at least a quarter as many buildings per street cell as Gütersloh 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
Kattenstroth	67	99%
Isselhorst	67	75%
Friedrichsdorf	64	87%
Pavenstädt	63	78%
Blankenhagen	60	81%

Least walkable

Letters A to E on the map.
Area	Typical score	In the top fifth
Hollen	32	12%
Nordhorn	53	72%
Sundern	56	96%
Spexard	58	72%
Avenwedde	58	73%

Cities like Gütersloh

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

City	Country	People	Typical score
Worcester	United Kingdom	102,000	60
Woking	United Kingdom	101,000	61
Chambéry	France	102,000	59

What this page covers

This page uses the boundary of Gütersloh as Eurostat, the EU's statistics office, draws it. About 100,000 people live there (2025 figure). Inside it we scored 9,221 street cells with 73,284 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.