Is Södertälje walkable?

This page covers Södertälje: 103,000 people.

40/100Typical walking score where people live. It mixes the walk to eight daily needs with how pleasant the streets are.

39%Södertälje is better than this share of places where people live, across the 20 countries on the map.

11thBy typical score, of the 13 cities in Sweden on this site.

In Södertälje, the walk to public transport is the strong point: 5 minutes for the typical building, about typical for Europe. The walk to health care is the weak point: most buildings have none within 20 minutes. Walking is easiest in Tälje (score 70) and hardest in Östra Kallfors (score 28): a gap of 42 points.

The walk to eight daily needs

The typical walk is the middle value: half of the buildings in Södertälje 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	14 min	Worse than most	61%
Food and drink	13 min	Worse than most	63%
Shops	15 min	Worse than most	58%
Health	over 20 min	Nothing within 20 minutes for most buildings	38%
School	14 min	Worse than most	62%
Parks	7 min	About typical	74%
Culture	over 20 min	Nothing within 20 minutes for most buildings	33%
Public transport	5 min	About typical	88%

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 Södertälje, 31% of the street cells are in the most walkable fifth, more than the 20% of an average place.

Share of the street cells in Södertälje in each fifth. The dashed line marks 20%, the share every fifth has in Sweden.
Fifth of the street cells in Sweden	Bar	Södertälje
Most walkable fifth		31%
Second fifth		14%
Middle fifth		16%
Fourth fifth		22%
Least walkable fifth		16%

The city at a glance

Each of the 2,320 hexagons groups the street cells within about 293 m of its centre and takes the shade of their middle fifth. The line is the boundary this page uses.

See Södertälje 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 16 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 Södertälje 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
Tälje	70	100%
Rosenlund	61	100%
Järna	52	87%
Saltskog	50	82%
Södra	49	65%

Least walkable

Letters A to E on the map.
Area	Typical score	In the top fifth
Östra Kallfors	28	31%
Viksäter	30	14%
Vattubrinken	34	40%
Mölnbo	35	38%
Hölö	40	49%

Cities like Södertälje

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

City	Country	People	Typical score
Lahti	Finland	121,000	41
Kuopio	Finland	126,000	40
Norrköping	Sweden	145,000	40

What this page covers

This page uses the boundary of Södertälje as Eurostat, the EU's statistics office, draws it. About 103,000 people live there (2025 figure). Inside it we scored 23,620 street cells with 18,182 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.