Is Stockholm walkable?

This page covers greater Stockholm: 1.6 million people, including Huddinge and Täby.

53/100Typical walking score where people live. It mixes the walk to eight daily needs with how pleasant the streets are.

59%Stockholm is better than this share of places where people live, across the 20 countries on the map.

3rdBy typical score, of the 13 cities in Sweden on this site.

In Stockholm, the walk to a park is the strong point: 3 minutes for the typical building, better than most of Europe. The walk to culture is the weak point: 15 minutes for the typical building, about typical for Europe. Walking is easiest in Östermalm (score 87) and hardest in Brevikshalvön (score 29): a gap of 58 points.

The walk to eight daily needs

The typical walk is the middle value: half of the buildings in Stockholm 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	9 min	About typical	90%
Food and drink	7 min	About typical	95%
Shops	8 min	About typical	90%
Health	13 min	About typical	73%
School	5 min	Better than most	97%
Parks	3 min	Better than most	98%
Culture	15 min	About typical	69%
Public transport	4 min	Better than most	99%

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 Stockholm, 88% of the street cells are in the most walkable fifth, more than the 20% of an average place.

Share of the street cells in Stockholm in each fifth. The dashed line marks 20%, the share every fifth has in Sweden.
Fifth of the street cells in Sweden	Bar	Stockholm
Most walkable fifth		88%
Second fifth		5%
Middle fifth		3%
Fourth fifth		2%
Least walkable fifth		1%

The city at a glance

Each of the 2,509 hexagons groups the street cells within about 336 m of its centre and takes the shade of their middle fifth. The line is the boundary this page uses.

See Stockholm 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 111 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 Stockholm 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
Östermalm	87	100%
Vasastaden	86	100%
Södermalm	86	99%
Norrmalm	86	100%
Kungsholmen	86	100%

Least walkable

Letters A to E on the map.
Area	Typical score	In the top fifth
Brevikshalvön	29	5%
Högmora	31	34%
Orhem	33	64%
Gladö kvarn	33	58%
Vidja	33	39%

Cities like Stockholm

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

City	Country	People	Typical score
Rome	Italy	2.7 million	55
Naples	Italy	3.0 million	50
Bradford	United Kingdom	536,000	53

What this page covers

This page uses the area Eurostat, the EU's statistics office, calls greater Stockholm: the city and the towns that have grown into it. Besides Stockholm itself, it takes in Huddinge, Täby, Solna, Sollentuna, Järfälla, Tyresö and smaller places. About 1.6 million people live there (2025 figure). Inside it we scored 65,916 street cells with 196,834 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.