Is Lahti walkable?

This page covers Lahti: 121,000 people, including Nastola.

41/100Typical walking score where people live. It mixes the walk to eight daily needs with how pleasant the streets are.

40%Lahti is better than this share of places where people live, across the 20 countries on the map.

8thBy typical score, of the 9 cities in Finland on this site.

In Lahti, the walk to public transport is the strong point: 4 minutes for the typical building, better than most of Europe. The walk to health care is the weak point: most buildings have none within 20 minutes. Walking is easiest in Paavola (score 65) and hardest in Kujala (score 26): a gap of 39 points.

The walk to eight daily needs

The typical walk is the middle value: half of the buildings in Lahti 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	18 min	Worse than most	56%
Food and drink	16 min	Worse than most	61%
Shops	17 min	Worse than most	58%
Health	over 20 min	Nothing within 20 minutes for most buildings	37%
School	14 min	Worse than most	70%
Parks	7 min	About typical	78%
Culture	over 20 min	Nothing within 20 minutes for most buildings	43%
Public transport	4 min	Better than most	91%

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 Lahti, 49% of the street cells are in the most walkable fifth, more than the 20% of an average place.

Share of the street cells in Lahti in each fifth. The dashed line marks 20%, the share every fifth has in Finland.
Fifth of the street cells in Finland	Bar	Lahti
Most walkable fifth		49%
Second fifth		16%
Middle fifth		9%
Fourth fifth		14%
Least walkable fifth		12%

The city at a glance

Each of the 2,197 hexagons groups the street cells within about 293 m of its centre and takes the shade of their middle fifth. The line is the boundary this page uses.

See Lahti 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 39 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 Lahti 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
Paavola	65	100%
Asemantausta	63	100%
Laune	53	100%
Niemi	52	96%
Metsäkangas	52	100%

Least walkable

Letters A to E on the map.
Area	Typical score	In the top fifth
Kujala	26	13%
Ruuhijärvi	30	7%
Immilä	30	3%
Kumia	31	46%
Haravakylä	32	23%

Cities like Lahti

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

City	Country	People	Typical score
Kuopio	Finland	126,000	40
Södertälje	Sweden	103,000	40
Norrköping	Sweden	145,000	40

What this page covers

This page uses the boundary of Lahti as Eurostat, the EU's statistics office, draws it. Besides Lahti itself, it takes in Nastola. About 121,000 people live there (2025 figure). Inside it we scored 27,295 street cells with 40,072 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.