WalkablyIs Gorzów Wielkopolski walkable?
This page covers Gorzów Wielkopolski: 115,000 people.
In Gorzów Wielkopolski, the walk to groceries is the strong point: 5 minutes for the typical building, better than most of Europe. The walk to culture is the weak point: 14 minutes for the typical building, about typical for Europe. Walking is easiest in Śródmieście (score 83) and hardest in Karnin (score 30): a gap of 53 points.
The walk to eight daily needs
The typical walk is the middle value: half of the buildings in Gorzów Wielkopolski have a shorter walk, and half have a longer one. The words compare it with every place where people live in the 31 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 | 5 min | Better than most | 97% |
| Food and drink | 8 min | About typical | 69% |
| Shops | 5 min | Better than most | 92% |
| Health | 8 min | Better than most | 69% |
| School | 6 min | Better than most | 85% |
| Parks | 4 min | Better than most | 96% |
| Culture | 14 min | About typical | 63% |
| 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 12,425,118 street cells in Poland from hardest to easiest to walk, then cut the list into five equal groups, called fifths. In Gorzów Wielkopolski, 68% of the street cells are in the most walkable fifth, more than the 20% of an average place.
| Fifth of the street cells in Poland | Bar | Gorzów Wielkopolski |
|---|---|---|
| Most walkable fifth | 68% | |
| Second fifth | 7% | |
| Middle fifth | 12% | |
| Fourth fifth | 6% | |
| Lowest-scoring fifth | 7% |
The city at a glance
On the map, click any street to see its score and the walk to each need.
Most walkable and least served 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 15 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 Gorzów Wielkopolski as a whole, so ports, hill parks and farmland drop out. Click a name to open it on the map.
Most walkable
| Area | Typical score | In the top fifth |
|---|---|---|
| 83 | 100% | |
| 77 | 100% | |
| 73 | 100% | |
| 70 | 86% | |
| 70 | 80% |
Fewest daily needs within a walk
| Area | Typical score | In the top fifth |
|---|---|---|
| 30 | 24% | |
| 35 | 33% | |
| 37 | 76% | |
| 42 | 88% | |
| 44 | 76% |
The score measures walks to eight daily needs and pleasant streets, not people, safety, crime or income. If you think a score is wrong, write to [email protected] and we will check and correct it.
Cities like Gorzów Wielkopolski
These three cities come closest to Gorzów Wielkopolski in number of people and typical score, from any of the 31 countries. Gorzów Wielkopolski has the same score as 2 of them, and in 1 of them the score is higher.
| City | Country | People | Typical score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bottrop | Germany | 119,000 | 60 |
| Worthing | United Kingdom | 110,000 | 61 |
| Bremerhaven | Germany | 119,000 | 60 |
What this page covers
This page uses the boundary of Gorzów Wielkopolski as Eurostat, the EU's statistics office, draws it. About 115,000 people live there (2024 figure). Inside it we scored 6,629 street cells with 22,899 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, 194,990,696 buildings in all. How the score works.