Is Rostock walkable?

This page covers Rostock: 205,000 people.

57/100Typical walking score where people live. It mixes the walk to eight daily needs with how pleasant the streets are.

64%Rostock is better than this share of places where people live, across the 20 countries on the map.

80thBy typical score, of the 84 cities in Germany on this site.

In Rostock, the walk to a park is the strong point: 4 minutes for the typical building, better than most of Europe. The walk to public transport is the weak point: 5 minutes for the typical building, about typical for Europe. Walking is easiest in Kröpeliner-Tor-Vorstadt (score 85) and hardest in Nienhagen (score 38): a gap of 47 points.

The walk to eight daily needs

The typical walk is the middle value: half of the buildings in Rostock 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	9 min	About typical	92%
Food and drink	6 min	Better than most	96%
Shops	6 min	Better than most	97%
Health	9 min	Better than most	86%
School	7 min	Better than most	90%
Parks	4 min	Better than most	96%
Culture	11 min	Better than most	77%
Public transport	5 min	About typical	98%

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 Rostock, 60% of the street cells are in the most walkable fifth, more than the 20% of an average place.

Share of the street cells in Rostock in each fifth. The dashed line marks 20%, the share every fifth has in Germany.
Fifth of the street cells in Germany	Bar	Rostock
Most walkable fifth		60%
Second fifth		26%
Middle fifth		6%
Fourth fifth		7%
Least walkable fifth		2%

The city at a glance

Each of the 2,179 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 Rostock 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 23 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 Rostock 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
Kröpeliner-Tor-Vorstadt	85	100%
Stadtmitte	85	87%
Steintor-Vorstadt	81	99%
Warnemünde	77	95%
Dierkow	71	99%

Least walkable

Letters A to E on the map.
Area	Typical score	In the top fifth
Nienhagen	38	10%
Diedrichshagen	46	74%
Stadtweide	47	86%
Lichtenhagen	50	82%
Marienehe	51	84%

Cities like Rostock

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

City	Country	People	Typical score
Chemnitz	Germany	246,000	57
Prato	Italy	197,000	58
Toulon	France	229,000	58

What this page covers

This page uses the boundary of Rostock as Eurostat, the EU's statistics office, draws it. About 205,000 people live there (2025 figure). Inside it we scored 12,960 street cells with 53,634 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.