Is Aalborg walkable?

This page covers Aalborg: 203,000 people, including Nørresundby and Svenstrup.

45/100Typical walking score where people live. It mixes the walk to eight daily needs with how pleasant the streets are.

46%Aalborg is better than this share of places where people live, across the 20 countries on the map.

4thBy typical score, of the 4 cities in Denmark on this site.

In Aalborg, the walk to a school is the strong point: 9 minutes for the typical building, about typical for Europe. The walk to shops is the weak point: 11 minutes for the typical building, worse than most of Europe. Walking is easiest in Øgadekvarteret (score 78) and hardest in Sejlflod (score 30): a gap of 48 points.

The walk to eight daily needs

The typical walk is the middle value: half of the buildings in Aalborg 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	10 min	About typical	76%
Food and drink	10 min	About typical	76%
Shops	11 min	Worse than most	72%
Health	16 min	About typical	58%
School	9 min	About typical	77%
Parks	6 min	About typical	84%
Culture	17 min	About typical	55%
Public transport	6 min	Worse than most	75%

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 1,906,103 street cells in Denmark from hardest to easiest to walk, then cut the list into five equal groups, called fifths. In Aalborg, 27% of the street cells are in the most walkable fifth, more than the 20% of an average place.

Share of the street cells in Aalborg in each fifth. The dashed line marks 20%, the share every fifth has in Denmark.
Fifth of the street cells in Denmark	Bar	Aalborg
Most walkable fifth		27%
Second fifth		16%
Middle fifth		19%
Fourth fifth		19%
Least walkable fifth		19%

The city at a glance

Each of the 2,238 hexagons groups the street cells within about 445 m of its centre and takes the shade of their middle fifth. The line is the boundary this page uses.

See Aalborg 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 47 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 Aalborg 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 Denmark.
Area	Typical score	In the top fifth
Øgadekvarteret	78	100%
Vestbyen	76	100%
Nørresundby	67	100%
Hals	66	68%
Eternitten	62	100%

Least walkable

Letters A to E on the map.
Area	Typical score	In the top fifth
Sejlflod	30	11%
Koldkær	32	14%
Sulsted	33	22%
Ferslev	34	6%
Grindsted	34	9%

Cities like Aalborg

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

City	Country	People	Typical score
Cagliari	Italy	215,000	46
Renfrewshire	United Kingdom	177,000	46
Uppsala	Sweden	248,000	44

What this page covers

This page uses the boundary of Aalborg as Eurostat, the EU's statistics office, draws it. Besides Aalborg itself, it takes in Nørresundby and Svenstrup. About 203,000 people live there (2013 figure). Inside it we scored 49,240 street cells with 113,112 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.