Is Nîmes walkable?

This page covers Nîmes: 152,000 people.

56/100Typical walking score where people live. It mixes the walk to eight daily needs with how pleasant the streets are.

62%Nîmes is better than this share of places where people live, across the 20 countries on the map.

41stBy typical score, of the 45 cities in France on this site.

In Nîmes, 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: 7 minutes for the typical building, about typical for Europe. Walking is easiest in Costières (score 63) and hardest in Villeverte (score 29): a gap of 34 points.

The walk to eight daily needs

The typical walk is the middle value: half of the buildings in Nîmes 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	7 min	Better than most	86%
Food and drink	8 min	About typical	83%
Shops	6 min	Better than most	86%
Health	7 min	Better than most	84%
School	6 min	Better than most	88%
Parks	7 min	About typical	92%
Culture	15 min	About typical	66%
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 25,659,091 street cells in France from hardest to easiest to walk, then cut the list into five equal groups, called fifths. In Nîmes, 46% of the street cells are in the most walkable fifth, more than the 20% of an average place.

Share of the street cells in Nîmes in each fifth. The dashed line marks 20%, the share every fifth has in France.
Fifth of the street cells in France	Bar	Nîmes
Most walkable fifth		46%
Second fifth		16%
Middle fifth		13%
Fourth fifth		16%
Least walkable fifth		10%

The city at a glance

Each of the 2,066 hexagons groups the street cells within about 167 m of its centre and takes the shade of their middle fifth. The line is the boundary this page uses.

See Nîmes 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 13 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 Nîmes 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.
Area	Typical score	In the top fifth
Costières	63	92%
Mas Roman	62	84%
Mas de Mingue	60	90%
Castanet	55	96%
Mas de Possac	52	47%

Least walkable

Letters A to E on the map.
Area	Typical score	In the top fifth
Villeverte	29	13%
La Planette	29	8%
Russan-Terres de Rouvière	30	22%
Les Trois Ponts	31	43%
Mas de Lauze	31	50%

Cities like Nîmes

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

City	Country	People	Typical score
Dacorum	United Kingdom	154,000	55
St Albans	United Kingdom	147,000	55
Wolfsburg	Germany	130,000	56

What this page covers

This page uses the boundary of Nîmes as Eurostat, the EU's statistics office, draws it. About 152,000 people live there (2023 figure). Inside it we scored 11,717 street cells with 46,941 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.