Is Helsingborg walkable?

This page covers Helsingborg: 152,000 people.

48/100Typical walking score where people live. It mixes the walk to eight daily needs with how pleasant the streets are.

50%Helsingborg is better than this share of places where people live, across the 20 countries on the map.

4thBy typical score, of the 13 cities in Sweden on this site.

In Helsingborg, the walk to a park is the strong point: 2 minutes for the typical building, much better than most of Europe. The walk to health care is the weak point: 19 minutes for the typical building, worse than most of Europe. Walking is easiest in Miatorp (score 58) and hardest in Tånga och Rögle (score 27): a gap of 31 points.

The walk to eight daily needs

The typical walk is the middle value: half of the buildings in Helsingborg 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	11 min	About typical	80%
Food and drink	8 min	About typical	83%
Shops	10 min	Worse than most	78%
Health	19 min	Worse than most	51%
School	5 min	Better than most	88%
Parks	2 min	Much better than most	92%
Culture	16 min	About typical	60%
Public transport	4 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 Helsingborg, 45% of the street cells are in the most walkable fifth, more than the 20% of an average place.

Share of the street cells in Helsingborg in each fifth. The dashed line marks 20%, the share every fifth has in Sweden.
Fifth of the street cells in Sweden	Bar	Helsingborg
Most walkable fifth		45%
Second fifth		3%
Middle fifth		4%
Fourth fifth		12%
Least walkable fifth		34%

The city at a glance

Each of the 2,400 hexagons groups the street cells within about 221 m of its centre and takes the shade of their middle fifth. The line is the boundary this page uses.

See Helsingborg 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 23 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 Helsingborg 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
Miatorp	58	99%
Rydebäck	54	80%
Ringstorp	53	98%
Ödåkra	53	84%
Adolfsberg	52	55%

Least walkable

Letters A to E on the map.
Area	Typical score	In the top fifth
Tånga och Rögle	27	19%
Allerum	32	25%
Hjälmshult	37	36%
Kattarp	38	40%
Domsten	40	66%

Cities like Helsingborg

These three cities come closest to Helsingborg in number of people and typical score, from any of the 20 countries. Helsingborg scores higher than all three.

City	Country	People	Typical score
Maidstone	United Kingdom	169,000	47
Bergen	Norway	145,000	47
Linköping	Sweden	168,000	47

What this page covers

This page uses the boundary of Helsingborg as Eurostat, the EU's statistics office, draws it. About 152,000 people live there (2025 figure). Inside it we scored 17,366 street cells with 38,980 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.