Is Trondheim walkable?

This page covers Trondheim: 287,000 people.

54/100Typical walking score where people live. It mixes the walk to eight daily needs with how pleasant the streets are.

61%Trondheim is better than this share of places where people live, across the 20 countries on the map.

2ndBy typical score, of the 4 cities in Norway on this site.

In Trondheim, the walk to a school is the strong point: 5 minutes for the typical building, better than most of Europe. The walk to culture is the weak point: 16 minutes for the typical building, about typical for Europe. Walking is easiest in Bakklandet (score 80) and hardest in Bratsberg (score 33): a gap of 47 points.

The walk to eight daily needs

The typical walk is the middle value: half of the buildings in Trondheim 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	8 min	About typical	87%
Food and drink	9 min	About typical	86%
Shops	8 min	About typical	86%
Health	11 min	About typical	78%
School	5 min	Better than most	92%
Parks	4 min	Better than most	92%
Culture	16 min	About typical	62%
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 Trondheim, 46% of the street cells are in the most walkable fifth, more than the 20% of an average place.

Share of the street cells in Trondheim in each fifth. The dashed line marks 20%, the share every fifth has in Norway.
Fifth of the street cells in Norway	Bar	Trondheim
Most walkable fifth		46%
Second fifth		18%
Middle fifth		20%
Fourth fifth		11%
Least walkable fifth		4%

The city at a glance

Each of the 2,544 hexagons groups the street cells within about 254 m of its centre and takes the shade of their middle fifth. The line is the boundary this page uses.

See Trondheim 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 33 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 Trondheim 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
Bakklandet	80	100%
Blussuvoll	63	100%
Steindal	61	100%
Rosten	61	99%
Tempe	61	98%

Least walkable

Letters A to E on the map.
Area	Typical score	In the top fifth
Bratsberg	33	27%
Ringvål	33	38%
Rye	35	31%
Strøket	37	55%
Spongdal	40	40%

Cities like Trondheim

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

City	Country	People	Typical score
Milton Keynes	United Kingdom	268,000	54
Walsall	United Kingdom	282,000	54
Bari	Italy	316,000	55

What this page covers

This page uses the boundary of Trondheim as Eurostat, the EU's statistics office, draws it. About 287,000 people live there (2023 figure). Inside it we scored 28,504 street cells with 76,478 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.