How walkable is Charitas, Niterói?
By Oscar Higson-Spence. Updated
Charitas has a walkability score of 53 out of 100 across the 850 m around its centre, which makes it somewhat walkable: some errands can be done on foot. It is the joint 9th most walkable of the 14 neighbourhoods ranked in Niterói, with 1 other, which scores 63 as a whole.
What's within walking distance
138 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the centre of Charitas. The nearest grocery is about 11 minutes away on foot. It earns full or nearly full points for parks. It is weakest for shopping, banks, books & libraries and culture & entertainment.
Groceries
- Casafruti RJ, 24 min
- Mercado Diamante, 25 min
Restaurants & bars
- Quiosque Estação 13, 6 min
- Quiosque Maloca Cultural, 6 min
Shopping
- Mary Modas, 16 min
- Petily, 18 min
Coffee
- Parque Bistrô, 20 min
- Café Premier, 25 min
Banks
- Santander Brasil, 23 min
- Banco Bradesco, 25 min
Parks
- Praça do Radio Amador, 16 min
- Parque da Cidade, 18 min
Schools
- AEN - Associação Educacional de Niterói, 21 min
- Colégio Nossa Senhora da Assunção, 21 min
Books & libraries
Culture & entertainment
Measured from the mapped centre of Charitas, Niterói at -22.9292, -43.0967. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route.
Street layout
Within 800 m of the centre there are about 40 street intersections per km², and blocks average 87 m long. Sparser streets or longer blocks reduce the score by 3%, since they make walks longer than the straight-line distance suggests.
Walkability across Charitas, Niterói
- 90+
- 70–89
- 50–69
- 25–49
- 0–24
Each hexagon is the score at a point across the 850 m around the centre of Charitas, Niterói. Rings mark 450 m and 850 m from the centre. Gaps are water or land without streets.
Nearby neighbourhoods in Niterói
| Neighbourhood | Distance | Score |
|---|---|---|
| São Francisco | 1.6 km | 71 |
| Icaraí | 2.9 km | 97 |
| Ingá | 3.9 km | 91 |
| Morro do Estado | 4.1 km | 95 |
| Cubango | 4.4 km | 52 |
| Gragoatá | 5 km | 53 |
| Camboinhas | 5.1 km | 60 |
| Fonseca | 5.4 km | 56 |
See all 14 neighbourhoods of Niterói ranked by walkability.
Questions about walking in Charitas, Niterói
Is Charitas walkable?
Partly. Charitas in Niterói has a walkability score of 53 out of 100 across the 850 m around its centre, which makes it somewhat walkable: some errands can be done on foot.
Is Charitas more walkable than the rest of Niterói?
Charitas is less walkable than Niterói as a whole: it scores 53, against 63 for the 5 km around Niterói's centre. It is the joint 9th most walkable of the 14 neighbourhoods ranked in Niterói, with 1 other on How Walkable.
What are the most walkable neighbourhoods in Niterói?
Of the 14 Niterói neighbourhoods on How Walkable, the most walkable are Icaraí (97), Morro do Estado (95) and Ingá (91).
How is the walkability score of Charitas 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 Charitas it is the average of 32 points spread evenly across the 850 m 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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