Is Turku walkable?

This page covers Turku: 206,000 people, including Maaria and Paattinen.

54/100Typical walking score where people live. It mixes the walk to eight daily needs with how pleasant the streets are.

59%Turku is better than this share of places where people live, across the 20 countries on the map.

2ndBy typical score, of the 9 cities in Finland on this site.

In Turku, 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: 15 minutes for the typical building, about typical for Europe. Walking is easiest in Runosmäki (score 64) and hardest in Höyttinen (score 30): a gap of 34 points.

The walk to eight daily needs

The typical walk is the middle value: half of the buildings in Turku 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	80%
Food and drink	8 min	About typical	83%
Shops	8 min	About typical	78%
Health	15 min	About typical	65%
School	7 min	Better than most	83%
Parks	2 min	Much better than most	90%
Culture	13 min	About typical	72%
Public transport	3 min	Better than most	99%

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 Turku, 70% of the street cells are in the most walkable fifth, more than the 20% of an average place.

Share of the street cells in Turku in each fifth. The dashed line marks 20%, the share every fifth has in Finland.
Fifth of the street cells in Finland	Bar	Turku
Most walkable fifth		70%
Second fifth		9%
Middle fifth		5%
Fourth fifth		8%
Least walkable fifth		8%

The city at a glance

Each of the 2,056 hexagons groups the street cells within about 221 m of its centre and takes the shade of their middle fifth. The line is the boundary this page uses.

See Turku 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 20 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 Turku 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
Runosmäki	64	98%
Vasaramäki	59	100%
Kurala	55	96%
Pääskyvuori	54	100%
Halinen	52	98%

Least walkable

Letters A to E on the map.
Area	Typical score	In the top fifth
Höyttinen	30	2%
Metsämäki	31	20%
Uusikylä	31	25%
Saramäki	34	41%
Yli-Maaria	41	90%

Cities like Turku

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

City	Country	People	Typical score
Stavanger	Norway	210,000	53
Lens	France	179,000	54
Erfurt	Germany	219,000	54

What this page covers

This page uses the boundary of Turku as Eurostat, the EU's statistics office, draws it. Besides Turku itself, it takes in Maaria and Paattinen. About 206,000 people live there (2025 figure). Inside it we scored 19,624 street cells with 37,746 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.