Is Rüsselsheim am Main walkable?

This page covers greater Rüsselsheim am Main: 102,000 people, including Flörsheim am Main and Raunheim.

68/100Typical walking score where people live. It mixes the walk to eight daily needs with how pleasant the streets are.
82%Rüsselsheim am Main is better than this share of places where people live, across the 20 countries on the map.
24thBy typical score, of the 84 cities in Germany on this site.

In Rüsselsheim am Main, the walk to a school is the strong point: 5 minutes for the typical building, better than most of Europe. Its weakest point against Europe is the walk to culture, and even that is 8 minutes for the typical building, better than most of Europe. Walking is easiest in Flörsheim am Main (score 73) and hardest in Wicker in Flörsheim (score 57): a gap of 16 points.

The walk to eight daily needs

The typical walk is the middle value: half of the buildings in Rüsselsheim am Main 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.

NeedTypical walkCompared with EuropeBuildings with one within 20 min
Groceries5 minBetter than most98%
Food and drink4 minBetter than most99%
Shops4 minBetter than most100%
Health6 minBetter than most98%
School5 minBetter than most98%
Parks3 minBetter than most100%
Culture8 minBetter than most87%
Public transport3 minBetter than most100%

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 Rüsselsheim am Main, 47% of the street cells are in the most walkable fifth, more than the 20% of an average place.

Share of the street cells in Rüsselsheim am Main in each fifth. The dashed line marks 20%, the share every fifth has in Germany.
Fifth of the street cells in GermanyBarRüsselsheim am Main
Most walkable fifth
47%
Second fifth
23%
Middle fifth
12%
Fourth fifth
10%
Least walkable fifth
9%

The city at a glance

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Each of the 2,219 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 Rüsselsheim am Main 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 8 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 Rüsselsheim am Main 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.
AreaTypical scoreIn the top fifth
7379%
7238%
7077%
6860%

Least walkable

Letters A to E on the map.
AreaTypical scoreIn the top fifth
5734%
6359%
6574%
6695%

Cities like Rüsselsheim am Main

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

CityCountryPeopleTypical score
TroisdorfGermany118,00068
BrugesBelgium121,00068
CambridgeUnited Kingdom125,00068

What this page covers

This page uses the area Eurostat, the EU's statistics office, calls greater Rüsselsheim am Main: the city and the towns that have grown into it. Besides Rüsselsheim am Main itself, it takes in Flörsheim am Main and Raunheim. About 102,000 people live there (2025 figure). Inside it we scored 8,532 street cells with 23,352 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.