Is Jyväskylä walkable?

This page covers Jyväskylä: 149,000 people, including Korpilahti and Palokka.

42/100Typical walking score where people live. It mixes the walk to eight daily needs with how pleasant the streets are.

42%Jyväskylä is better than this share of places where people live, across the 20 countries on the map.

7thBy typical score, of the 9 cities in Finland on this site.

In Jyväskylä, the walk to public transport is the strong point: 4 minutes for the typical building, about typical for Europe. The walk to health care is the weak point: most buildings have none within 20 minutes. Walking is easiest in Kangasvuori (score 57) and hardest in Ruoke (score 33): a gap of 24 points.

The walk to eight daily needs

The typical walk is the middle value: half of the buildings in Jyväskylä 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	17 min	Worse than most	58%
Food and drink	18 min	Worse than most	54%
Shops	16 min	Worse than most	61%
Health	over 20 min	Nothing within 20 minutes for most buildings	38%
School	11 min	Worse than most	68%
Parks	6 min	About typical	74%
Culture	21 min	Nothing within 20 minutes for most buildings	47%
Public transport	4 min	About typical	90%

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 6,822,289 street cells in Finland from hardest to easiest to walk, then cut the list into five equal groups, called fifths. In Jyväskylä, 36% of the street cells are in the most walkable fifth, more than the 20% of an average place.

Share of the street cells in Jyväskylä in each fifth. The dashed line marks 20%, the share every fifth has in Finland.
Fifth of the street cells in Finland	Bar	Jyväskylä
Most walkable fifth		36%
Second fifth		26%
Middle fifth		12%
Fourth fifth		17%
Least walkable fifth		8%

The city at a glance

Each of the 2,066 hexagons groups the street cells within about 512 m of its centre and takes the shade of their middle fifth. The line is the boundary this page uses.

See Jyväskylä 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 37 areas where people live: each has at least 200 street cells and 237 buildings, and at least a quarter as many buildings per street cell as Jyväskylä 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 Finland.
Area	Typical score	In the top fifth
Kangasvuori	57	95%
Kuokkala	55	100%
Säynätsalo	54	93%
Lohikoski	53	98%
Keltinmäki	52	91%

Least walkable

Letters A to E on the map.
Area	Typical score	In the top fifth
Ruoke	33	38%
Puuppola	33	35%
Matinmäki	34	40%
Rippalanmäki	34	51%
Kuohu	35	55%

Cities like Jyväskylä

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

City	Country	People	Typical score
Västerås	Sweden	161,000	42
Derry and Strabane	United Kingdom	151,000	40
Örebro	Sweden	160,000	44

What this page covers

This page uses the boundary of Jyväskylä as Eurostat, the EU's statistics office, draws it. Besides Jyväskylä itself, it takes in Korpilahti, Palokka, Säynätsalo, Tikkakoski and Vaajakoski. About 149,000 people live there (2025 figure). Inside it we scored 57,539 street cells with 39,309 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.