Is Rivas-Vaciamadrid walkable?

This page covers Rivas-Vaciamadrid: 102,000 people.

62/100Typical walking score where people live. It mixes the walk to eight daily needs with how pleasant the streets are.
72%Rivas-Vaciamadrid is better than this share of places where people live, across the 20 countries on the map.
29thBy typical score, of the 36 cities in Spain on this site.

In Rivas-Vaciamadrid, the walk to a park is the strong point: 2 minutes for the typical building, much better than most of Europe. The walk to shops is the weak point: 7 minutes for the typical building, about typical for Europe. Walking is easiest in Las Colinas (score 70) and hardest in Campillo de San Isidro (score 45): a gap of 25 points.

The walk to eight daily needs

The typical walk is the middle value: half of the buildings in Rivas-Vaciamadrid 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
Groceries6 minBetter than most99%
Food and drink5 minBetter than most99%
Shops7 minAbout typical89%
Health7 minBetter than most96%
School5 minBetter than most99%
Parks2 minMuch better than most100%
Culture12 minAbout typical94%
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 16,714,737 street cells in Spain from hardest to easiest to walk, then cut the list into five equal groups, called fifths. In Rivas-Vaciamadrid, 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 Rivas-Vaciamadrid in each fifth. The dashed line marks 20%, the share every fifth has in Spain.
Fifth of the street cells in SpainBarRivas-Vaciamadrid
Most walkable fifth
56%
Second fifth
14%
Middle fifth
18%
Fourth fifth
7%
Least walkable fifth
5%

The city at a glance

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Each of the 1,593 hexagons groups the street cells within about 110 m of its centre and takes the shade of their middle fifth. The line is the boundary this page uses.
See Rivas-Vaciamadrid 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 Rivas-Vaciamadrid as a whole, so ports, hill parks and farmland drop out. Click a name to open it on the map.

Even Campillo de San Isidro, the least walkable area here, has 73% of its street cells in the most walkable fifth in Spain. Rivas-Vaciamadrid walks far better than most of the country, so even its weakest areas beat most other places.

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.
AreaTypical scoreIn the top fifth
7092%
6689%
63100%

Least walkable

Letters A to E on the map.
AreaTypical scoreIn the top fifth
4573%
4979%
5484%

Cities like Rivas-Vaciamadrid

These three cities come closest to Rivas-Vaciamadrid in number of people and typical score, from any of the 20 countries. Rivas-Vaciamadrid scores higher than all three.

CityCountryPeopleTypical score
KaiserslauternGermany100,00062
PoitiersFrance108,00062
WokingUnited Kingdom101,00061

What this page covers

This page uses the boundary of Rivas-Vaciamadrid as Eurostat, the EU's statistics office, draws it. About 102,000 people live there (2024 figure). Inside it we scored 4,577 street cells with 16,308 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.