How walkable is Ilha da Conceição, Niterói?
By Oscar Higson-Spence. Updated
Ilha da Conceição has a walkability score of 49 out of 100 across the 800 m around its centre, which makes it car-dependent: most errands require a car. It is the 12th most walkable of the 14 neighbourhoods ranked in Niterói, which scores 63 as a whole.
What's within walking distance
117 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the centre of Ilha da Conceição. The nearest grocery is about 17 minutes away on foot. It earns full or nearly full points for shopping, schools and books & libraries. It is weakest for groceries, coffee, banks and parks.
Groceries
- Extra Supermercado, 18 min
- Dom Atacadista, 28 min
Restaurants & bars
- Pizzaria Ceará e Lanches, 3 min
- Restaurante Dom Diniz, 3 min
Shopping
- Ilha Pets, 2 min
- Drogaria Mais Barato - Ilha da Conceição, 7 min
Coffee
Banks
Parks
Schools
- Escola Municipal Maestro Heitor Villa-Lobos, 4 min
- Sininho de Ouro, 19 min
Books & libraries
- Biblioteca de Pós-Graduação em Geoquímica, 19 min
- Biblioteca Professor Gilmar Luiz Novaes - CP2 Niterói, 23 min
Culture & entertainment
- Casa de Oliveira Vianna, 23 min
Measured from the mapped centre of Ilha da Conceição, Niterói at -22.8716, -43.1144. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route.
Street layout
Within 800 m of the centre there are about 48 street intersections per km², and blocks average 83 m long. Sparser streets or longer blocks reduce the score by 2%, since they make walks longer than the straight-line distance suggests.
Walkability across Ilha da Conceição, Niterói
- 90+
- 70–89
- 50–69
- 25–49
- 0–24
Each hexagon is the score at a point across the 800 m around the centre of Ilha da Conceição, Niterói. Rings mark 400 m and 800 m from the centre. Gaps are water or land without streets.
Nearby neighbourhoods in Niterói
| Neighbourhood | Distance | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Barreto | 1.5 km | 71 |
| Engenhoca | 2.1 km | 68 |
| Cubango | 2.8 km | 52 |
| Morro do Estado | 3.1 km | 95 |
| Fonseca | 3.1 km | 56 |
| Ingá | 3.6 km | 91 |
| Icaraí | 3.7 km | 97 |
| Gragoatá | 4.1 km | 53 |
See all 14 neighbourhoods of Niterói ranked by walkability.
Questions about walking in Ilha da Conceição, Niterói
Is Ilha da Conceição walkable?
Not very. Ilha da Conceição in Niterói has a walkability score of 49 out of 100 across the 800 m around its centre, which makes it car-dependent: most errands require a car.
Is Ilha da Conceição more walkable than the rest of Niterói?
Ilha da Conceição is less walkable than Niterói as a whole: it scores 49, against 63 for the 5 km around Niterói's centre. It is the 12th most walkable of the 14 neighbourhoods ranked in Niterói 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 Ilha da Conceição 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 Ilha da Conceição it is the average of 50 points spread evenly across the 800 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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