Is Aarhus walkable?

This page covers Aarhus: 319,000 people, including Tilst and Lystrup.

52/100Typical walking score where people live. It mixes the walk to eight daily needs with how pleasant the streets are.

57%Aarhus is better than this share of places where people live, across the 20 countries on the map.

2ndBy typical score, of the 4 cities in Denmark on this site.

In Aarhus, the walk to a park is the strong point: 4 minutes for the typical building, better than most of Europe. The walk to shops is the weak point: 8 minutes for the typical building, about typical for Europe. Walking is easiest in Ceres Byen (score 82) and hardest in Mundelstrup (score 32): a gap of 50 points.

The walk to eight daily needs

The typical walk is the middle value: half of the buildings in Aarhus 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	8 min	About typical	88%
Food and drink	8 min	About typical	92%
Shops	8 min	About typical	86%
Health	13 min	About typical	73%
School	7 min	Better than most	88%
Parks	4 min	Better than most	95%
Culture	10 min	Better than most	86%
Public transport	4 min	About typical	97%

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 Aarhus, 56% of the street cells are in the most walkable fifth, more than the 20% of an average place.

Share of the street cells in Aarhus in each fifth. The dashed line marks 20%, the share every fifth has in Denmark.
Fifth of the street cells in Denmark	Bar	Aarhus
Most walkable fifth		56%
Second fifth		13%
Middle fifth		11%
Fourth fifth		10%
Least walkable fifth		10%

The city at a glance

Each of the 2,155 hexagons groups the street cells within about 293 m of its centre and takes the shade of their middle fifth. The line is the boundary this page uses.

See Aarhus 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 56 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 Aarhus 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
Ceres Byen	82	100%
Trøjborg	76	100%
Frederiksbjerg	76	99%
Åbyhøj	65	100%
Saralyst	63	100%

Least walkable

Letters A to E on the map.
Area	Typical score	In the top fifth
Mundelstrup	32	11%
Studstrup	33	11%
Spørring	37	28%
Fastrup Mark	38	31%
Bering Kirkeby	39	29%

Cities like Aarhus

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

City	Country	People	Typical score
Dudley	United Kingdom	320,000	51
Cheshire West and Chester	United Kingdom	339,000	53
Malmö	Sweden	366,000	54

What this page covers

This page uses the boundary of Aarhus as Eurostat, the EU's statistics office, draws it. Besides Aarhus itself, it takes in Tilst, Lystrup, Beder-Malling and Tranbjerg. About 319,000 people live there (2013 figure). Inside it we scored 32,397 street cells with 115,381 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.