Is Uppsala walkable?

This page covers Uppsala: 248,000 people.

44/100Typical walking score where people live. It mixes the walk to eight daily needs with how pleasant the streets are.

45%Uppsala is better than this share of places where people live, across the 20 countries on the map.

8thBy typical score, of the 13 cities in Sweden on this site.

In Uppsala, the walk to a park is the strong point: 4 minutes for the typical building, better than most of Europe. The walk to health care is the weak point: most buildings have none within 20 minutes. Walking is easiest in Eriksberg (score 66) and hardest in Funbo (score 29): a gap of 37 points.

The walk to eight daily needs

The typical walk is the middle value: half of the buildings in Uppsala 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	60%
Food and drink	11 min	Worse than most	65%
Shops	13 min	Worse than most	61%
Health	over 20 min	Nothing within 20 minutes for most buildings	45%
School	8 min	About typical	67%
Parks	4 min	Better than most	71%
Culture	16 min	About typical	58%
Public transport	4 min	About typical	91%

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 Uppsala, 34% of the street cells are in the most walkable fifth, more than the 20% of an average place.

Share of the street cells in Uppsala in each fifth. The dashed line marks 20%, the share every fifth has in Sweden.
Fifth of the street cells in Sweden	Bar	Uppsala
Most walkable fifth		34%
Second fifth		11%
Middle fifth		17%
Fourth fifth		19%
Least walkable fifth		18%

The city at a glance

Each of the 2,477 hexagons groups the street cells within about 589 m of its centre and takes the shade of their middle fifth. The line is the boundary this page uses.

See Uppsala 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 40 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 Uppsala 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
Eriksberg	66	100%
Gottsunda	66	99%
Gränby	62	99%
Tuna backar	58	99%
Sävja	58	98%

Least walkable

Letters A to E on the map.
Area	Typical score	In the top fifth
Funbo	29	5%
Bärby	30	22%
Ramstalund	31	12%
Tuna	31	23%
Skölsta	32	37%

Cities like Uppsala

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

City	Country	People	Typical score
Aalborg	Denmark	203,000	45
Cagliari	Italy	215,000	46
Messina	Italy	217,000	42

What this page covers

This page uses the boundary of Uppsala as Eurostat, the EU's statistics office, draws it. About 248,000 people live there (2025 figure). Inside it we scored 67,074 street cells with 51,768 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.