How walkable is Bowness?
By Oscar Higson-SpenceUpdated
Bowness has a walkability score of 55 out of 100 across the 1.3 km around its centre, which makes it somewhat walkable: some errands can be done on foot. It is the 5th most walkable of 5 neighbourhoods ranked in Calgary, which scores 69 as a whole.
What's within walking distance
339 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the centre of Bowness. The nearest grocery is Real Canadian Superstore Nurse, about 17 minutes away on foot. It earns full or nearly full points for parks. It is weakest for groceries, banks and culture & entertainment.
- Real Canadian Liquorstore™ Cal17 min
- Save-On-Foods Pharmacy21 min
- Kin's Chinese Food10 min
- Sweet Home Bakery10 min
- Localcoin Bitcoin ATM - Bow Food Convenience Store10 min
- The Medicine Shoppe Pharmacy11 min
- Cadence Coffee19 min
- Starbucks22 min
- RBC Royal Bank ATM24 min
- Queen Elizabeth Park6 min
- Unnamed park7 min
- Bowness High School13 min
- Calgary Public Library - Bowness Library15 min
- Reliquary Cards21 min
Measured from the mapped centre of Bowness at 51.0893, -114.1931. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route.
Street layout
Within 800 m of the centre there are about 52 street intersections per km², and blocks average 125 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 Bowness
- 90+
- 70–89
- 50–69
- 25–49
- 0–24
Each hexagon is the score at a point across the 1.3 km around the centre of Bowness. Rings mark 650 m and 1.3 km from the centre. Gaps are water or land without streets.
Nearby neighbourhoods in Calgary
| Neighbourhood | Distance | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Montgomery | 2.7 km | 67 |
| Beltline | 10 km | 95 |
| Inglewood | 13.1 km | 71 |
| Forest Lawn | 16.6 km | 77 |
See every neighbourhood ranked on the Calgary page.
Questions about walking in Bowness
Is Bowness walkable?
Partly. Bowness in Calgary has a walkability score of 55 out of 100 across the 1.3 km around its centre, which makes it somewhat walkable: some errands can be done on foot.
Is Bowness more walkable than the rest of Calgary?
Bowness is less walkable than Calgary as a whole: it scores 55, against 69 for the 5 km around Calgary's centre. It ranks 5th of the 5 Calgary neighbourhoods on How Walkable.
What are the most walkable neighbourhoods in Calgary?
Of the 5 Calgary neighbourhoods on How Walkable, the most walkable are Beltline (95), Forest Lawn (77) and Inglewood (71).
How is the walkability score of Bowness 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 Bowness it is the average of 47 points spread evenly across the 1.3 km around its mapped centre, leaving out water and land without streets, using open map data from Overture Maps and OpenStreetMap.
Scores follow a published walkability method, explained in the methodology. Neighbourhood position from Overture Maps, name from Wikidata.