Is Rome (Roma) walkable?

This page covers Rome: 2.7 million people, including Lido di Ostia and Acilia.

55/100Typical walking score where people live. It mixes the walk to eight daily needs with how pleasant the streets are.

61%Rome is better than this share of places where people live, across the 20 countries on the map.

25thBy typical score, of the 39 cities in Italy on this site.

In Rome, the walk to public transport is the strong point: 3 minutes for the typical building, 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 Esquilino (score 83) and hardest in Monte dell'Ara-Valle Santa (score 27): a gap of 56 points.

The walk to eight daily needs

The typical walk is the middle value: half of the buildings in Rome 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	84%
Food and drink	5 min	Better than most	89%
Shops	5 min	Better than most	87%
Health	8 min	Better than most	77%
School	8 min	About typical	76%
Parks	5 min	About typical	85%
Culture	16 min	About typical	58%
Public transport	3 min	Better than most	96%

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 13,208,252 street cells in Italy from hardest to easiest to walk, then cut the list into five equal groups, called fifths. In Rome, 60% of the street cells are in the most walkable fifth, more than the 20% of an average place.

Share of the street cells in Rome in each fifth. The dashed line marks 20%, the share every fifth has in Italy.
Fifth of the street cells in Italy	Bar	Rome
Most walkable fifth		60%
Second fifth		14%
Middle fifth		10%
Fourth fifth		10%
Least walkable fifth		5%

The city at a glance

Each of the 2,591 hexagons groups the street cells within about 445 m of its centre and takes the shade of their middle fifth. The line is the boundary this page uses.

See Rome 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 109 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 Rome 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 Italy.
Area	Typical score	In the top fifth
Esquilino	83	98%
Pigneto	82	100%
Garbatella	82	100%
Tuscolano	82	99%
Nomentano	81	98%

Least walkable

Letters A to E on the map.
Area	Typical score	In the top fifth
Monte dell'Ara-Valle Santa	27	0%
Colle Aurelio	28	24%
Selva Candida	28	31%
Piana del Sole	28	0%
Selva Nera	30	23%

Cities like Rome

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

City	Country	People	Typical score
Stockholm	Sweden	1.6 million	53
Naples	Italy	3.0 million	50
Dublin	Ireland	1.3 million	61

What this page covers

This page uses the boundary of Rome as Eurostat, the EU's statistics office, draws it. Besides Rome itself, it takes in Lido di Ostia and Acilia. About 2.7 million people live there (2025 figure). Inside it we scored 82,368 street cells with 183,389 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.