Is Ferrol walkable?

This page covers greater Ferrol: 104,000 people, including Narón.

59/100Typical walking score where people live. It mixes the walk to eight daily needs with how pleasant the streets are.

67%Ferrol is better than this share of places where people live, across the 20 countries on the map.

34thBy typical score, of the 36 cities in Spain on this site.

In Ferrol, the walk to a place to eat is the strong point: 3 minutes for the typical building, much better than most of Europe. The walk to a school is the weak point: 8 minutes for the typical building, about typical for Europe. Walking is easiest in A Gándara de Altea in Narón (score 62) and hardest in A Fontaíña (score 23): a gap of 39 points.

The walk to eight daily needs

The typical walk is the middle value: half of the buildings in Ferrol 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	6 min	Better than most	84%
Food and drink	3 min	Much better than most	95%
Shops	5 min	Better than most	80%
Health	6 min	Better than most	79%
School	8 min	About typical	80%
Parks	5 min	About typical	87%
Culture	8 min	Better than most	88%
Public transport	4 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 16,714,737 street cells in Spain from hardest to easiest to walk, then cut the list into five equal groups, called fifths. In Ferrol, 54% of the street cells are in the most walkable fifth, more than the 20% of an average place.

Share of the street cells in Ferrol in each fifth. The dashed line marks 20%, the share every fifth has in Spain.
Fifth of the street cells in Spain	Bar	Ferrol
Most walkable fifth		54%
Second fifth		30%
Middle fifth		10%
Fourth fifth		2%
Least walkable fifth		4%

The city at a glance

Each of the 2,101 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 Ferrol 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 7 areas where people live: each has at least 200 street cells and 160 buildings, and at least a quarter as many buildings per street cell as Ferrol 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 Spain.
Area	Typical score	In the top fifth
A Gándara de Altea (Narón)	62	83%
Viladóniga	36	56%
Soagraña	30	62%

Least walkable

Letters A to E on the map.
Area	Typical score	In the top fifth
A Fontaíña	23	16%
O Outeiro	25	40%
Penelas (Narón)	28	40%

Cities like Ferrol

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

City	Country	People	Typical score
Venlo	Netherlands	104,000	59
Chambéry	France	102,000	59
Chesterfield	United Kingdom	105,000	59

What this page covers

This page uses the area Eurostat, the EU's statistics office, calls greater Ferrol: the city and the towns that have grown into it. Besides Ferrol itself, it takes in Narón. About 104,000 people live there (2024 figure). Inside it we scored 12,534 street cells with 22,303 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.