Is Valladolid walkable?

This page covers greater Valladolid: 322,000 people, including Arroyo de la Encomienda.

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74/100Typical walking score where people live. It mixes the walk to eight daily needs with how pleasant the streets are.
89%Valladolid is better than this share of places where people live, across the 20 countries on the map.
14thBy typical score, of the 36 cities in Spain on this site.

In Valladolid, the walk to a place to eat is the strong point: 2 minutes for the typical building, much better than most of Europe. Its weakest point against Europe is the walk to public transport, and even that is 2 minutes for the typical building, better than most of Europe. Walking is easiest in La Victoria (score 80) and hardest in Polígono San Cristóbal (score 39): a gap of 41 points.

The walk to eight daily needs

The typical walk is the middle value: half of the buildings in Valladolid 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
Groceries3 minMuch better than most93%
Food and drink2 minMuch better than most97%
Shops3 minMuch better than most94%
Health4 minMuch better than most88%
School4 minMuch better than most93%
Parks2 minMuch better than most99%
Culture6 minMuch better than most92%
Public transport2 minBetter than most99%

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 Valladolid, 63% of the street cells are in the most walkable fifth, more than the 20% of an average place.

Share of the street cells in Valladolid in each fifth. The dashed line marks 20%, the share every fifth has in Spain.
Fifth of the street cells in SpainBarValladolid
Most walkable fifth
63%
Second fifth
14%
Middle fifth
12%
Fourth fifth
8%
Least walkable fifth
3%

The city at a glance

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Each of the 2,355 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 Valladolid 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 8 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 Valladolid as a whole, so ports, hill parks and farmland drop out. Click a name to open it on the map.

Even Polígono San Cristóbal, the least walkable area here, has 90% of its street cells in the most walkable fifth in Spain. Valladolid 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
8098%
73100%
5989%
5780%

Least walkable

Letters A to E on the map.
AreaTypical scoreIn the top fifth
3990%
4141%
4493%
5570%

Cities like Valladolid

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

CityCountryPeopleTypical score
MannheimGermany318,00074
GrenobleFrance329,00075
HaarlemNetherlands288,00073

What this page covers

This page uses the area Eurostat, the EU's statistics office, calls greater Valladolid: the city and the towns that have grown into it. Besides Valladolid itself, it takes in Arroyo de la Encomienda. About 322,000 people live there (2024 figure). Inside it we scored 12,399 street cells with 17,461 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.