Is Haarlemmermeer walkable?

This page covers Haarlemmermeer: 163,000 people, including Hoofddorp and Nieuw-Vennep.

59/100Typical walking score where people live. It mixes the walk to eight daily needs with how pleasant the streets are.

68%Haarlemmermeer is better than this share of places where people live, across the 20 countries on the map.

29thBy typical score, of the 31 cities in the Netherlands on this site.

In Haarlemmermeer, the walk to a park is the strong point: 1 minute for the typical building, much better than most of Europe. The walk to a place to eat is the weak point: 8 minutes for the typical building, about typical for Europe. Walking is easiest in Nieuw-Vennep (score 77) and hardest in Cruquius (score 42): a gap of 35 points.

The walk to eight daily needs

The typical walk is the middle value: half of the buildings in Haarlemmermeer 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	92%
Food and drink	8 min	About typical	96%
Shops	7 min	About typical	96%
Health	10 min	Better than most	88%
School	6 min	Better than most	94%
Parks	1 min	Much better than most	98%
Culture	9 min	Better than most	92%
Public transport	4 min	About typical	98%

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 Haarlemmermeer, 26% of the street cells are in the most walkable fifth, more than the 20% of an average place.

Share of the street cells in Haarlemmermeer 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	Haarlemmermeer
Most walkable fifth		26%
Second fifth		31%
Middle fifth		16%
Fourth fifth		16%
Least walkable fifth		11%

The city at a glance

Each of the 2,159 hexagons groups the street cells within about 167 m of its centre and takes the shade of their middle fifth. The line is the boundary this page uses.

See Haarlemmermeer 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 19 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 Haarlemmermeer 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
Nieuw-Vennep	77	70%
Badhoevedorp	66	71%
Linquenda	65	48%
Zwanenburg	62	49%
Welgelegen	62	44%

Least walkable

Letters A to E on the map.
Area	Typical score	In the top fifth
Cruquius	42	0%
Lijnden	44	6%
Zwaanshoek	45	0%
Abbenes	46	0%
Lisserbroek	48	11%

Cities like Haarlemmermeer

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

City	Country	People	Typical score
Mons	Belgium	159,000	58
Patras	Greece	171,000	60
Vila Franca de Xira	Portugal	141,000	59

What this page covers

This page uses the boundary of Haarlemmermeer as Eurostat, the EU's statistics office, draws it. Besides Haarlemmermeer itself, it takes in Hoofddorp and Nieuw-Vennep. About 163,000 people live there (2024 figure). Inside it we scored 12,217 street cells with 97,785 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.