Is Toulon walkable?

This page covers greater Toulon: 229,000 people, including La Garde and La Valette-du-Var.

58/100Typical walking score where people live. It mixes the walk to eight daily needs with how pleasant the streets are.

66%Toulon is better than this share of places where people live, across the 20 countries on the map.

40thBy typical score, of the 45 cities in France on this site.

In Toulon, the walk to public transport is the strong point: 2 minutes for the typical building, much better than most of Europe. The walk to a park is the weak point: 6 minutes for the typical building, about typical for Europe. Walking is easiest in La Garde (score 65) and hardest in Faron (score 46): a gap of 19 points.

The walk to eight daily needs

The typical walk is the middle value: half of the buildings in Toulon 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	6 min	Better than most	95%
Food and drink	7 min	About typical	91%
Shops	5 min	Better than most	95%
Health	7 min	Better than most	93%
School	6 min	Better than most	94%
Parks	6 min	About typical	96%
Culture	12 min	About typical	79%
Public transport	2 min	Much better than most	100%

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 Toulon, 68% of the street cells are in the most walkable fifth, more than the 20% of an average place.

Share of the street cells in Toulon in each fifth. The dashed line marks 20%, the share every fifth has in France.
Fifth of the street cells in France	Bar	Toulon
Most walkable fifth		68%
Second fifth		10%
Middle fifth		10%
Fourth fifth		7%
Least walkable fifth		5%

The city at a glance

Each of the 2,296 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 Toulon 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 6 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 Toulon 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
La Garde	65	93%
Font Pré	59	86%
Vert Coteau	59	66%

Least walkable

Letters A to E on the map.
Area	Typical score	In the top fifth
Faron	46	28%
Le Thouar (La Garde)	50	94%
La Valette-du-Var	53	78%

Cities like Toulon

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

City	Country	People	Typical score
Chemnitz	Germany	246,000	57
Prato	Italy	197,000	58
Rostock	Germany	205,000	57

What this page covers

This page uses the area Eurostat, the EU's statistics office, calls greater Toulon: the city and the towns that have grown into it. Besides Toulon itself, it takes in La Garde and La Valette-du-Var. About 229,000 people live there (2023 figure). Inside it we scored 7,548 street cells with 75,189 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.