How walkable is Heysel, Brussels?
By Oscar Higson-Spence. Updated
Heysel has a walkability score of 77 out of 100 across the 1 km around its centre, which makes it very walkable: most errands can be done on foot. It is the 16th most walkable of the 17 neighbourhoods ranked in Brussels, which scores 94 as a whole.
What's within walking distance
443 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the centre of Heysel. The nearest grocery is about 13 minutes away on foot. It earns full or nearly full points for restaurants & bars, shopping, parks and culture & entertainment.
Groceries
- Louis Delhaize, 15 min
- Carrefour market, 16 min
Restaurants & bars
- Thai Café Express BXL Expo 5, 3 min
- Irish Pub on tour, 3 min
Shopping
- ByKa Fashion, 5 min
- Trademart, 5 min
Coffee
- Forum Cafe, 13 min
- Le Delta, 15 min
Banks
- KBC Brussels Heizel/Heysel, 12 min
- BNP Paribas Fortis Heysel, 18 min
Parks
- Parc du Verregat - Verregatpark, 7 min
- Square Palfyn - Palfynsquare, 12 min
Schools
- Arabe ludique, 13 min
- Ecole Maternelle Emile Bockstael, 13 min
Books & libraries
- Bibliotheek Brunfaut, 19 min
- Libraire Etienne, 25 min
Culture & entertainment
- Design Museum Brussels, 3 min
- Art & Design Atomium Museum, 4 min
Measured from the mapped centre of Heysel, Brussels at 50.8979, 4.3388. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route.
Street layout
Within 800 m of the centre there are about 66 street intersections per km², and blocks average 102 m long. Sparser streets or longer blocks reduce the score by 1%, since they make walks longer than the straight-line distance suggests.
Walkability across Heysel, Brussels
- 90+
- 70–89
- 50–69
- 25–49
- 0–24
Each hexagon is the score at a point across the 1 km around the centre of Heysel, Brussels. Rings mark 500 m and 1 km from the centre. Gaps are water or land without streets.
Nearby neighbourhoods in Brussels
| Neighbourhood | Distance | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Verregat | 600 m | 74 |
| Tour & Taxis | 3.5 km | 98 |
| Maritime Quarter | 3.7 km | 98 |
| Northern Quarter | 4.3 km | 99 |
| Quays Quarter | 5 km | 100 |
| Freedom Quarter | 5.7 km | 100 |
| Pentagon | 5.8 km | 99 |
| Royal Quarter | 6.3 km | 99 |
See all 17 neighbourhoods of Brussels ranked by walkability.
Questions about walking in Heysel, Brussels
Is Heysel walkable?
Yes. Heysel in Brussels has a walkability score of 77 out of 100 across the 1 km around its centre, which makes it very walkable: most errands can be done on foot.
Is Heysel more walkable than the rest of Brussels?
Heysel is less walkable than Brussels as a whole: it scores 77, against 94 for the 5 km around Brussels's centre. It is the 16th most walkable of the 17 neighbourhoods ranked in Brussels on How Walkable.
What are the most walkable neighbourhoods in Brussels?
Of the 17 Brussels neighbourhoods on How Walkable, the most walkable are the Freedom Quarter (100), Marolles (100) and the Quays Quarter (100).
How is the walkability score of Heysel calculated?
The score counts groceries, restaurants, shops, cafés, banks, parks, schools, libraries and cultural venues within a 30 minute walk, gives nearer places more weight, and deducts up to 20% where streets are sparse or blocks are long. For Heysel it is the average of 58 points spread evenly across the 1 km around its mapped centre, leaving out water and land without streets, using open map data from Overture Maps and OpenStreetMap. It measures what is within a walk, not what the walk is like: pavements, traffic, safety, hills and heat are not part of the score.
This page is generated from open map data with a published walkability method, explained in the methodology. Places from Overture Maps release 2026-09-23.1. Neighbourhood position from Overture Maps, name from Wikidata.
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