Is Neuss walkable?

This page covers Neuss: 154,000 people.

67/100Typical walking score where people live. It mixes the walk to eight daily needs with how pleasant the streets are.

80%Neuss is better than this share of places where people live, across the 20 countries on the map.

30thBy typical score, of the 84 cities in Germany on this site.

In Neuss, the walk to a park is the strong point: 3 minutes for the typical building, much better than most of Europe. Its weakest point against Europe is the walk to culture, and even that is 10 minutes for the typical building, better than most of Europe. Walking is easiest in Innenstadt (score 86) and hardest in Helpenstein (score 38): a gap of 48 points.

The walk to eight daily needs

The typical walk is the middle value: half of the buildings in Neuss 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	98%
Food and drink	5 min	Better than most	99%
Shops	4 min	Better than most	99%
Health	6 min	Better than most	96%
School	5 min	Better than most	99%
Parks	3 min	Much better than most	100%
Culture	10 min	Better than most	83%
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 Neuss, 76% of the street cells are in the most walkable fifth, more than the 20% of an average place.

Share of the street cells in Neuss in each fifth. The dashed line marks 20%, the share every fifth has in Germany.
Fifth of the street cells in Germany	Bar	Neuss
Most walkable fifth		76%
Second fifth		12%
Middle fifth		4%
Fourth fifth		4%
Least walkable fifth		4%

The city at a glance

Each of the 2,189 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 Neuss 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 18 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 Neuss 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
Innenstadt	86	99%
Reuschenberg	74	100%
Norf	74	96%
Grimlinghausen	74	78%
Derikum	71	90%

Least walkable

Letters A to E on the map.
Area	Typical score	In the top fifth
Helpenstein	38	20%
Löveling	61	60%
Uedesheim	61	56%
Grefrath	62	48%
Hoisten	62	73%

Cities like Neuss

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

City	Country	People	Typical score
Regensburg	Germany	151,000	67
Enschede	Netherlands	162,000	68
Rimini	Italy	150,000	67

What this page covers

This page uses the boundary of Neuss as Eurostat, the EU's statistics office, draws it. About 154,000 people live there (2025 figure). Inside it we scored 8,411 street cells with 68,291 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.