Is Villeurbanne walkable?

This page covers Villeurbanne: 164,000 people.

84/100Updated 1 November 2026 · map data of 28 October 2026

Walking score where people live

95%of Europe lives in lower-scoring places

5thof 50 cities in France on the map, tied with another city

In Villeurbanne, the walk to a school compares best with Europe: 2 minutes for the typical resident, much better than most of Europe. Easiest to walk: Charmettes (89). Hardest: Saint-Jean (64).

The city at a glance

See Villeurbanne on the map

On the map, click any street to see its score and the walk to each need.

The walk to eight daily needs

Minutes on foot for a typical resident.

Need	Typical walk	Compared with Europe	People with one within 20 min
Groceries	2 min	Much better than most	100%
Food and drink	2 min	Much better than most	100%
Shops	2 min	Much better than most	100%
Health	3 min	Much better than most	100%
School	2 min	Much better than most	100%
Parks	2 min	Much better than most	100%
Culture	5 min	Much better than most	100%
Public transport	2 min	Better than most	100%

Compared with the rest of the country

80% of the people in Villeurbanne live in places among the most walkable 20% in France.

Dashed line: the average in France (20%).
Where people live, ranked in France	Bar	Villeurbanne
Most walkable 20%		80%
Above the middle		17%
Middle 20%		3%
Below the middle		under 1%
Lowest-scoring 20%		0%

Most walkable and lowest-scoring areas

Click an area name to see it on the map.

Most walkable

Numbers 1 to 5 on the map.
Area	Typical score
Charmettes	89
Charpennes	87
Gratte-Ciel	87
Ferrandière	86
Grandclément	85

Lowest overall score

Letters A to E on the map.
Area	Typical score
Saint-Jean	64
Cyprian	68
Bonnevay	70
Les Brosses	71
Buers	72

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Cities like Villeurbanne

Cities of similar size and score.

City	Country	People	Typical score
Salamanca	Spain	146,000	84
Grenoble	France	156,000	85
Burgos	Spain	177,000	83

More cities in France

Lyon Saint-Étienne Chambéry Grenoble Annecy Clermont-Ferrand Dijon Besançon Avignon Nîmes Aix-en-Provence Montpellier

What this page covers

Walkably gives places in Europe a walking score from 0 to 100, based on the walk to eight daily needs and how pleasant the streets are.

This page uses the boundary of Villeurbanne on OpenStreetMap. About 164,000 people live there (2023 figure). Inside it we scored 1,761 street cells with 19,181 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%. Each place counts by the people who live there, from census counts: the typical score is the score of where people live. The comparison with Europe counts 466.8 million people. The score uses no data about who lives anywhere: no income, age, origin or other personal data. How the score works.