WalkablyIs Gothenburg (Göteborg) walkable?
This page covers greater Gothenburg: 721,000 people, including Mölndal and Partille.
In Gothenburg, the walk to a park is the strong point: 4 minutes for the typical building, better than most of Europe. The walk to shops is the weak point: 10 minutes for the typical building, worse than most of Europe. Walking is easiest in Majorna (score 77) and hardest in Stenared (score 28): a gap of 49 points.
The walk to eight daily needs
The typical walk is the middle value: half of the buildings in Gothenburg 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 | 10 min | About typical | 76% |
| Food and drink | 9 min | About typical | 84% |
| Shops | 10 min | Worse than most | 78% |
| Health | 17 min | About typical | 57% |
| School | 6 min | Better than most | 89% |
| Parks | 4 min | Better than most | 92% |
| Culture | 14 min | About typical | 66% |
| Public transport | 5 min | About typical | 94% |
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 Gothenburg, 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 Sweden | Bar | Gothenburg |
|---|---|---|
| Most walkable fifth | 68% | |
| Second fifth | 12% | |
| Middle fifth | 8% | |
| Fourth fifth | 8% | |
| Least walkable fifth | 4% |
The city at a glance
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 77 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 Gothenburg 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 77 | 100% | |
| 74 | 96% | |
| 72 | 100% | |
| 71 | 100% | |
| 69 | 98% |
Least walkable
| Area | Typical score | In the top fifth |
|---|---|---|
| 28 | 7% | |
| 29 | 18% | |
| 30 | 28% | |
| 30 | 27% | |
| 31 | 50% |
Cities like Gothenburg
These three cities come closest to Gothenburg in number of people and typical score, from any of the 20 countries. Gothenburg scores higher than 1 of them and lower than 2.
| City | Country | People | Typical score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sintra | Portugal | 401,000 | 44 |
| North Lanarkshire | United Kingdom | 340,000 | 50 |
| Bradford | United Kingdom | 536,000 | 53 |
What this page covers
This page uses the area Eurostat, the EU's statistics office, calls greater Gothenburg: the city and the towns that have grown into it. Besides Gothenburg itself, it takes in Mölndal, Partille, Torslanda and Lindome. About 721,000 people live there (2025 figure). Inside it we scored 52,743 street cells with 138,815 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.