Is Odense walkable?

This page covers Odense: 193,000 people.

50/100Typical walking score where people live. It mixes the walk to eight daily needs with how pleasant the streets are.

54%Odense is better than this share of places where people live, across the 20 countries on the map.

3rdBy typical score, of the 4 cities in Denmark on this site.

In Odense, the walk to a school is the strong point: 7 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 City Campus (score 79) and hardest in Fangel (score 33): a gap of 46 points.

The walk to eight daily needs

The typical walk is the middle value: half of the buildings in Odense 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	93%
Food and drink	8 min	About typical	87%
Shops	8 min	About typical	84%
Health	15 min	About typical	62%
School	7 min	Better than most	94%
Parks	4 min	Better than most	95%
Culture	14 min	About typical	67%
Public transport	5 min	About typical	94%

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 Odense, 57% of the street cells are in the most walkable fifth, more than the 20% of an average place.

Share of the street cells in Odense in each fifth. The dashed line marks 20%, the share every fifth has in Denmark.
Fifth of the street cells in Denmark	Bar	Odense
Most walkable fifth		57%
Second fifth		13%
Middle fifth		12%
Fourth fifth		10%
Least walkable fifth		8%

The city at a glance

Each of the 2,266 hexagons groups the street cells within about 221 m of its centre and takes the shade of their middle fifth. The line is the boundary this page uses.

See Odense 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 41 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 Odense 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
City Campus	79	100%
Sankt Jørgensmark	65	100%
Snap-ind	63	100%
Hunderup	63	100%
Skibhuskvarteret	63	90%

Least walkable

Letters A to E on the map.
Area	Typical score	In the top fifth
Fangel	33	12%
Åsum	37	24%
Skibhusene	38	59%
Agedrup	39	41%
Villestofte	40	70%

Cities like Odense

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

City	Country	People	Typical score
Basildon	United Kingdom	185,000	50
Reggio Emilia	Italy	172,000	51
Rochdale	United Kingdom	219,000	50

What this page covers

This page uses the boundary of Odense as Eurostat, the EU's statistics office, draws it. About 193,000 people live there (2013 figure). Inside it we scored 21,007 street cells with 94,919 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.