Is Oslo walkable?

This page covers greater Oslo: 700,000 people, including Sandvika and Lørenskog.

57/100Typical walking score where people live. It mixes the walk to eight daily needs with how pleasant the streets are.

65%Oslo is better than this share of places where people live, across the 20 countries on the map.

1stHighest typical score of the 4 cities in Norway on this site.

In Oslo, the walk to a school is the strong point: 5 minutes for the typical building, better than most of Europe. The walk to a place to eat is the weak point: 9 minutes for the typical building, about typical for Europe. Walking is easiest in Brekke (score 65) and hardest in Sørbråten (score 30): a gap of 35 points.

The walk to eight daily needs

The typical walk is the middle value: half of the buildings in Oslo 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	9 min	About typical	91%
Shops	8 min	About typical	94%
Health	9 min	Better than most	91%
School	5 min	Better than most	97%
Parks	4 min	Better than most	97%
Culture	14 min	About typical	74%
Public transport	4 min	Better than most	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 4,287,233 street cells in Norway from hardest to easiest to walk, then cut the list into five equal groups, called fifths. In Oslo, 64% of the street cells are in the most walkable fifth, more than the 20% of an average place.

Share of the street cells in Oslo in each fifth. The dashed line marks 20%, the share every fifth has in Norway.
Fifth of the street cells in Norway	Bar	Oslo
Most walkable fifth		64%
Second fifth		24%
Middle fifth		10%
Fourth fifth		2%
Least walkable fifth		under 1%

The city at a glance

Each of the 2,105 hexagons groups the street cells within about 387 m of its centre and takes the shade of their middle fifth. The line is the boundary this page uses.

See Oslo 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 58 areas where people live: each has at least 200 street cells and 433 buildings, and at least a quarter as many buildings per street cell as Oslo 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 Norway.
Area	Typical score	In the top fifth
Brekke	65	100%
Holmlia	64	100%
Stabekk	64	100%
Ulsrud	62	79%
Lindeberg	61	91%

Least walkable

Letters A to E on the map.
Area	Typical score	In the top fifth
Sørbråten	30	12%
Fjellstad	32	24%
Skui	35	42%
Klemetsrud	38	74%
Voksenlia	40	100%

Cities like Oslo

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

City	Country	People	Typical score
Copenhagen	Denmark	559,000	58
Palermo	Italy	629,000	59
Murcia	Spain	472,000	56

What this page covers

This page uses the area Eurostat, the EU's statistics office, calls greater Oslo: the city and the towns that have grown into it. Besides Oslo itself, it takes in Sandvika and Lørenskog. About 700,000 people live there (2023 figure). Inside it we scored 59,857 street cells with 197,741 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.