Is Ede walkable?

This page covers Ede: 166,000 people, including Bennekom.

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

72%Ede is better than this share of places where people live, across the 20 countries on the map.

26thBy typical score, of the 31 cities in the Netherlands on this site.

In Ede, the walk to a park is the strong point: 3 minutes for the typical building, better than most of Europe. The walk to public transport is the weak point: 5 minutes for the typical building, about typical for Europe. Walking is easiest in Lunteren (score 69) and hardest in Wekerom (score 49): a gap of 20 points.

The walk to eight daily needs

The typical walk is the middle value: half of the buildings in Ede 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	9 min	About typical	88%
Food and drink	7 min	About typical	94%
Shops	6 min	Better than most	94%
Health	9 min	Better than most	78%
School	6 min	Better than most	84%
Parks	3 min	Better than most	93%
Culture	10 min	Better than most	85%
Public transport	5 min	About typical	94%

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 Ede, only 15% of the street cells are in the most walkable fifth, fewer than the 20% of an average place.

Share of the street cells in Ede 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	Ede
Most walkable fifth		15%
Second fifth		20%
Middle fifth		34%
Fourth fifth		20%
Least walkable fifth		12%

The city at a glance

Each of the 2,165 hexagons groups the street cells within about 221 m of its centre and takes the shade of their middle fifth. The line is the boundary this page uses.

See Ede 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 13 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 Ede 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
Lunteren	69	48%
Bennekom	68	68%
Ede-Zuid	67	99%
Veldhuizen	66	76%
Veluwse Poort	66	54%

Least walkable

Letters A to E on the map.
Area	Typical score	In the top fifth
Wekerom	49	8%
Otterlo	50	23%
Kernhem	51	35%
Harskamp	51	32%
Rietkampen	52	33%

Cities like Ede

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

City	Country	People	Typical score
South Tyneside	United Kingdom	150,000	62
Hamm	Germany	180,000	62
Newport	United Kingdom	152,000	61

What this page covers

This page uses the boundary of Ede as Eurostat, the EU's statistics office, draws it. Besides Ede itself, it takes in Bennekom. About 166,000 people live there (2024 figure). Inside it we scored 18,662 street cells with 78,089 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.