Is La Seyne-sur-Mer walkable?

This page covers greater La Seyne-sur-Mer: 119,000 people, including Six-Fours-les-Plages and Sanary-sur-Mer.

49/100Typical walking score where people live. It mixes the walk to eight daily needs with how pleasant the streets are.
52%La Seyne-sur-Mer is better than this share of places where people live, across the 20 countries on the map.
45thBy typical score, of the 45 cities in France on this site.

In La Seyne-sur-Mer, the walk to public transport is the strong point: 3 minutes for the typical building, better than most of Europe. The walk to a park is the weak point: 12 minutes for the typical building, worse than most of Europe. Walking is easiest in Fort Napoléon (score 68) and hardest in Talian in Six-Fours-les-Plages (score 32): a gap of 36 points.

The walk to eight daily needs

The typical walk is the middle value: half of the buildings in La Seyne-sur-Mer 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
Groceries8 minAbout typical93%
Food and drink8 minAbout typical94%
Shops7 minAbout typical93%
Health9 minBetter than most90%
School9 minAbout typical90%
Parks12 minWorse than most80%
Culture16 minAbout typical66%
Public transport3 minBetter than most97%

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 25,659,091 street cells in France from hardest to easiest to walk, then cut the list into five equal groups, called fifths. In La Seyne-sur-Mer, 64% of the street cells are in the most walkable fifth, more than the 20% of an average place.

Share of the street cells in La Seyne-sur-Mer in each fifth. The dashed line marks 20%, the share every fifth has in France.
Fifth of the street cells in FranceBarLa Seyne-sur-Mer
Most walkable fifth
64%
Second fifth
14%
Middle fifth
12%
Fourth fifth
7%
Least walkable fifth
4%

The city at a glance

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Each of the 2,244 hexagons groups the street cells within about 110 m of its centre and takes the shade of their middle fifth. The line is the boundary this page uses.
See La Seyne-sur-Mer 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 12 areas where people live: each has at least 200 street cells and 500 buildings, and at least a quarter as many buildings per street cell as La Seyne-sur-Mer 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 France.
AreaTypical scoreIn the top fifth
68100%
6499%
5995%
5698%
5683%

Least walkable

Letters A to E on the map.
AreaTypical scoreIn the top fifth
3239%
3256%
3664%
4483%
4688%

Cities like La Seyne-sur-Mer

These three cities come closest to La Seyne-sur-Mer in number of people and typical score, from any of the 20 countries. All three score higher than La Seyne-sur-Mer.

CityCountryPeopleTypical score
East StaffordshireUnited Kingdom118,00049
ForlìItaly118,00049
FunchalPortugal108,00049

What this page covers

This page uses the area Eurostat, the EU's statistics office, calls greater La Seyne-sur-Mer: the city and the towns that have grown into it. Besides La Seyne-sur-Mer itself, it takes in Six-Fours-les-Plages and Sanary-sur-Mer. About 119,000 people live there (2023 figure). Inside it we scored 7,064 street cells with 70,393 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.