Is Split walkable?

This page covers greater Split: 181,000 people, including Solin.

56/100Typical walking score where people live. It mixes the walk to eight daily needs with how pleasant the streets are.
66%Split is better than this share of places where people live, across the 31 countries on the map.
2ndBy typical score, of the 3 cities in Croatia on this site.

In Split, the walk to groceries is the strong point: 4 minutes for the typical building, much better than most of Europe. The walk to culture is the weak point: 16 minutes for the typical building, about typical for Europe. Walking is easiest in Meje (score 70) and hardest in Srinjine (score 23): a gap of 47 points.

The walk to eight daily needs

The typical walk is the middle value: half of the buildings in Split have a shorter walk, and half have a longer one. The words compare it with every place where people live in the 31 countries on the map, so the same minutes get the same word everywhere.

NeedTypical walkCompared with EuropeBuildings with one within 20 min
Groceries4 minMuch better than most95%
Food and drink4 minBetter than most94%
Shops4 minBetter than most95%
Health8 minBetter than most78%
School6 minBetter than most93%
Parks5 minBetter than most88%
Culture16 minAbout typical59%
Public transport4 minBetter than most95%

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 1,751,762 street cells in Croatia from hardest to easiest to walk, then cut the list into five equal groups, called fifths. In Split, 51% of the street cells are in the most walkable fifth, more than the 20% of an average place.

Share of the street cells in Split in each fifth. The dashed line marks 20%, the share every fifth has in Croatia.
Fifth of the street cells in CroatiaBarSplit
Most walkable fifth
51%
Second fifth
4%
Middle fifth
8%
Fourth fifth
12%
Lowest-scoring fifth
26%

The city at a glance

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Each of the 2,154 hexagons groups the street cells within about 126 m of its centre and takes the shade of their middle fifth. The line is the boundary this page uses.
See Split on the map

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

Most walkable and least served 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 9 areas where people live: each has at least 200 street cells and 346 buildings, and at least a quarter as many buildings per street cell as Split 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 Croatia.
AreaTypical scoreIn the top fifth
70100%
5591%
5091%
4773%

Fewest daily needs within a walk

Letters A to E on the map.
AreaTypical scoreIn the top fifth
230%
263%
3654%
4053%

The score measures walks to eight daily needs and pleasant streets, not people, safety, crime or income. If you think a score is wrong, write to [email protected] and we will check and correct it.

Cities like Split

These three cities come closest to Split in number of people and typical score, from any of the 31 countries. Split scores higher than 1 of them and lower than 2.

CityCountryPeopleTypical score
Greater MonsBelgium159,00057
Greater LensFrance179,00053
Greater ToulonFrance229,00057

What this page covers

This page uses the area Eurostat, the EU's statistics office, calls greater Split: the city and the towns that have grown into it. Besides Split itself, it takes in Solin. About 181,000 people live there (2024 figure). Inside it we scored 7,593 street cells with 19,261 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, 194,990,696 buildings in all. How the score works.