Is Almere walkable?

This page covers Almere: 226,000 people.

62/100Typical walking score where people live. It mixes the walk to eight daily needs with how pleasant the streets are.

73%Almere is better than this share of places where people live, across the 20 countries on the map.

25thBy typical score, of the 31 cities in the Netherlands on this site.

In Almere, the walk to a park is the strong point: 2 minutes for the typical building, much better than most of Europe. The walk to public transport is the weak point: 4 minutes for the typical building, about typical for Europe. Walking is easiest in Stedenwijk (score 71) and hardest in Vogelhorst (score 38): a gap of 33 points.

The walk to eight daily needs

The typical walk is the middle value: half of the buildings in Almere 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	95%
Food and drink	7 min	About typical	96%
Shops	7 min	About typical	96%
Health	7 min	Better than most	94%
School	4 min	Much better than most	96%
Parks	2 min	Much better than most	99%
Culture	8 min	Better than most	93%
Public transport	4 min	About typical	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 1,931,104 street cells in the Netherlands from hardest to easiest to walk, then cut the list into five equal groups, called fifths. In Almere, 42% of the street cells are in the most walkable fifth, more than the 20% of an average place.

Share of the street cells in Almere in each fifth. The dashed line marks 20%, the share every fifth has in the Netherlands.
Fifth of the street cells in the Netherlands	Bar	Almere
Most walkable fifth		42%
Second fifth		35%
Middle fifth		12%
Fourth fifth		6%
Least walkable fifth		4%

The city at a glance

Each of the 2,311 hexagons groups the street cells within about 145 m of its centre and takes the shade of their middle fifth. The line is the boundary this page uses.

See Almere 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 17 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 Almere 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 the Netherlands.
Area	Typical score	In the top fifth
Stedenwijk	71	89%
Bloemenbuurt	70	62%
Waterwijk	69	51%
Homeruskwartier	69	38%
Kruidenwijk	67	80%

Least walkable

Letters A to E on the map.
Area	Typical score	In the top fifth
Vogelhorst	38	0%
De Groene Eem	41	8%
Noorderplassen	48	14%
De Grienden	52	23%
Danswijk	57	71%

Cities like Almere

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

City	Country	People	Typical score
Oberhausen	Germany	214,000	62
Halle an der Saale	Germany	227,000	63
York	United Kingdom	209,000	63

What this page covers

This page uses the boundary of Almere as Eurostat, the EU's statistics office, draws it. About 226,000 people live there (2024 figure). Inside it we scored 12,126 street cells with 133,654 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.