Is Borås walkable?

This page covers Borås: 115,000 people.

35/100Typical walking score where people live. It mixes the walk to eight daily needs with how pleasant the streets are.

31%Borås is better than this share of places where people live, across the 20 countries on the map.

13thBy typical score, of the 13 cities in Sweden on this site.

In Borås, the walk to a school is the strong point: 12 minutes for the typical building, worse than most of Europe. The walk to health care is the weak point: most buildings have none within 20 minutes. Walking is easiest in Alideberg (score 60) and hardest in Frufällan (score 28): a gap of 32 points.

The walk to eight daily needs

The typical walk is the middle value: half of the buildings in Borås 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	22 min	Nothing within 20 minutes for most buildings	47%
Food and drink	19 min	Worse than most	52%
Shops	20 min	Nothing within 20 minutes for most buildings	50%
Health	over 20 min	Nothing within 20 minutes for most buildings	39%
School	12 min	Worse than most	66%
Parks	10 min	Worse than most	62%
Culture	over 20 min	Nothing within 20 minutes for most buildings	44%
Public transport	8 min	Worse than most	74%

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 7,843,708 street cells in Sweden from hardest to easiest to walk, then cut the list into five equal groups, called fifths. In Borås, 30% of the street cells are in the most walkable fifth, more than the 20% of an average place.

Share of the street cells in Borås in each fifth. The dashed line marks 20%, the share every fifth has in Sweden.
Fifth of the street cells in Sweden	Bar	Borås
Most walkable fifth		30%
Second fifth		20%
Middle fifth		22%
Fourth fifth		19%
Least walkable fifth		9%

The city at a glance

Each of the 2,356 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 Borås 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 31 areas where people live: each has at least 200 street cells and 221 buildings, and at least a quarter as many buildings per street cell as Borås 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 Sweden.
Area	Typical score	In the top fifth
Alideberg	60	92%
Tullen	50	79%
Dalsjöfors	49	81%
Sandared	48	79%
Hulta	47	100%

Least walkable

Letters A to E on the map.
Area	Typical score	In the top fifth
Frufällan	28	4%
Bosnäs	28	17%
Ekås	28	19%
Bredared	28	15%
Tosseryd	29	7%

Cities like Borås

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

City	Country	People	Typical score
Guidonia Montecelio	Italy	122,000	36
Anzio	Italy	108,000	35
Kuopio	Finland	126,000	40

What this page covers

This page uses the boundary of Borås as Eurostat, the EU's statistics office, draws it. About 115,000 people live there (2025 figure). Inside it we scored 38,075 street cells with 53,996 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.