Is Linköping walkable?

This page covers Linköping: 168,000 people.

47/100Typical walking score where people live. It mixes the walk to eight daily needs with how pleasant the streets are.

49%Linköping is better than this share of places where people live, across the 20 countries on the map.

5thBy typical score, of the 13 cities in Sweden on this site.

In Linköping, the walk to a school is the strong point: 6 minutes for the typical building, better than most of Europe. The walk to shops is the weak point: 14 minutes for the typical building, worse than most of Europe. Walking is easiest in Vasastaden (score 80) and hardest in Västerlösa (score 28): a gap of 52 points.

The walk to eight daily needs

The typical walk is the middle value: half of the buildings in Linköping 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	69%
Food and drink	10 min	Worse than most	69%
Shops	14 min	Worse than most	63%
Health	19 min	Worse than most	51%
School	6 min	Better than most	78%
Parks	4 min	Better than most	78%
Culture	17 min	About typical	56%
Public transport	5 min	About typical	84%

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 Linköping, 26% of the street cells are in the most walkable fifth, more than the 20% of an average place.

Share of the street cells in Linköping in each fifth. The dashed line marks 20%, the share every fifth has in Sweden.
Fifth of the street cells in Sweden	Bar	Linköping
Most walkable fifth		26%
Second fifth		11%
Middle fifth		16%
Fourth fifth		19%
Least walkable fifth		28%

The city at a glance

Each of the 2,290 hexagons groups the street cells within about 512 m of its centre and takes the shade of their middle fifth. The line is the boundary this page uses.

See Linköping 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 36 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 Linköping 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
Vasastaden	80	100%
Gottfridsberg	63	100%
Västra Valla	63	99%
Skäggetorp	62	85%
Garnisonen	61	88%

Least walkable

Letters A to E on the map.
Area	Typical score	In the top fifth
Västerlösa	28	3%
Gistad	30	18%
Kränge	30	32%
Kallerstad	36	44%
Brokind	38	43%

Cities like Linköping

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

City	Country	People	Typical score
Maidstone	United Kingdom	169,000	47
Bergen	Norway	145,000	47
Renfrewshire	United Kingdom	177,000	46

What this page covers

This page uses the boundary of Linköping as Eurostat, the EU's statistics office, draws it. About 168,000 people live there (2025 figure). Inside it we scored 56,617 street cells with 52,578 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.