WalkablyIs Vilnius walkable?
This page covers Vilnius: 602,000 people, including Grigiškės.
In Vilnius, the walk to health care is the strong point: 16 minutes for the typical building, about typical for Europe. The walk to culture is the weak point: most buildings have none within 20 minutes. Walking is easiest in Vingriai (score 82) and hardest in Pagiriai (score 27): a gap of 55 points.
The walk to eight daily needs
The typical walk is the middle value: half of the buildings in Vilnius 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.
| Need | Typical walk | Compared with Europe | Buildings with one within 20 min |
|---|---|---|---|
| Groceries | 11 min | About typical | 81% |
| Food and drink | 14 min | Worse than most | 70% |
| Shops | 12 min | Worse than most | 72% |
| Health | 16 min | About typical | 60% |
| School | 15 min | Worse than most | 65% |
| Parks | 10 min | Worse than most | 80% |
| Culture | over 20 min | Nothing within 20 minutes for most buildings | 38% |
| Public transport | 5 min | About typical | 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 1,699,533 street cells in Lithuania from hardest to easiest to walk, then cut the list into five equal groups, called fifths. In Vilnius, 81% of the street cells are in the most walkable fifth, more than the 20% of an average place.
| Fifth of the street cells in Lithuania | Bar | Vilnius |
|---|---|---|
| Most walkable fifth | 81% | |
| Second fifth | 12% | |
| Middle fifth | 5% | |
| Fourth fifth | 2% | |
| Lowest-scoring fifth | 1% |
The city at a glance
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 61 areas where people live: each has at least 200 street cells and 469 buildings, and at least a quarter as many buildings per street cell as Vilnius as a whole, so ports, hill parks and farmland drop out. Click a name to open it on the map.
Most walkable
| Area | Typical score | In the top fifth |
|---|---|---|
| 82 | 100% | |
| 81 | 100% | |
| 78 | 100% | |
| 77 | 100% | |
| 77 | 100% |
Fewest daily needs within a walk
| Area | Typical score | In the top fifth |
|---|---|---|
| 27 | 9% | |
| 28 | 24% | |
| 29 | 39% | |
| 30 | 41% | |
| 30 | 37% |
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 Vilnius
These three cities come closest to Vilnius in number of people and typical score, from any of the 31 countries. Vilnius has the same score as 2 of them, and in 1 of them the score is higher.
| City | Country | People | Typical score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Messina | Italy | 217,000 | 40 |
| Derry and Strabane | United Kingdom | 151,000 | 39 |
| Norrköping | Sweden | 145,000 | 39 |
What this page covers
This page uses the boundary of Vilnius as Eurostat, the EU's statistics office, draws it. Besides Vilnius itself, it takes in Grigiškės. About 602,000 people live there (2024 figure). Inside it we scored 37,049 street cells with 103,343 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.