Is Tampere walkable?

This page covers Tampere: 260,000 people, including Aitolahti and Teisko.

51/100Typical walking score where people live. It mixes the walk to eight daily needs with how pleasant the streets are.

55%Tampere is better than this share of places where people live, across the 20 countries on the map.

3rdBy typical score, of the 9 cities in Finland on this site.

In Tampere, the walk to a park is the strong point: 2 minutes for the typical building, much better than most of Europe. The walk to health care is the weak point: 18 minutes for the typical building, worse than most of Europe. Walking is easiest in Hervanta (score 69) and hardest in Teisko (score 31): a gap of 38 points.

The walk to eight daily needs

The typical walk is the middle value: half of the buildings in Tampere 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	10 min	About typical	83%
Food and drink	9 min	About typical	82%
Shops	9 min	About typical	78%
Health	18 min	Worse than most	57%
School	8 min	About typical	85%
Parks	2 min	Much better than most	85%
Culture	16 min	About typical	61%
Public transport	3 min	Better than most	93%

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 Tampere, 58% of the street cells are in the most walkable fifth, more than the 20% of an average place.

Share of the street cells in Tampere in each fifth. The dashed line marks 20%, the share every fifth has in Finland.
Fifth of the street cells in Finland	Bar	Tampere
Most walkable fifth		58%
Second fifth		16%
Middle fifth		8%
Fourth fifth		12%
Least walkable fifth		6%

The city at a glance

Each of the 2,579 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 Tampere 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 24 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 Tampere 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
Hervanta	69	99%
Linnainmaa	57	98%
Härmälä	56	100%
Peltolammi	55	96%
Hervantajärvi	53	94%

Least walkable

Letters A to E on the map.
Area	Typical score	In the top fifth
Teisko	31	24%
Sorila	33	41%
Aitoniemi	33	57%
Nurmi	34	48%
Olkahinen	41	89%

Cities like Tampere

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

City	Country	People	Typical score
Sefton	United Kingdom	275,000	50
Rotherham	United Kingdom	264,000	52
Espoo	Finland	321,000	50

What this page covers

This page uses the boundary of Tampere as Eurostat, the EU's statistics office, draws it. Besides Tampere itself, it takes in Aitolahti and Teisko. About 260,000 people live there (2025 figure). Inside it we scored 31,445 street cells with 49,943 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.