How walkable is New Edinburgh?
By Oscar Higson-SpenceUpdated
New Edinburgh has a walkability score of 63 out of 100 across the 1 km around its centre, which makes it somewhat walkable: some errands can be done on foot. It is the 3rd most walkable of 5 neighbourhoods ranked in Ottawa, which scores 70 as a whole.
What's within walking distance
576 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the centre of New Edinburgh. The nearest grocery is Metro, about 17 minutes away on foot. It earns full or nearly full points for parks. It is weakest for groceries.
- Loblaws Rideau Street24 min
- Walmart25 min
- Saveur Créole et Holistic Resto8 min
- Tavern on the Falls13 min
- Jennifer Kelly Arts12 min
- LCBO15 min
- Starbucks15 min
- Second Cup16 min
- RBC Royal Bank16 min
- Money Mart24 min
- Stanley Park Dog Park4 min
- New Edinburgh Park4 min
- Fern Hill School13 min
- École secondaire publique De La Salle14 min
- Ottawa Korean Library18 min
- City of Ottawa23 min
- Wheelhouse Maritime Museum19 min
- Canadian Improv Games21 min
Measured from the mapped centre of New Edinburgh at 45.4412, -75.6870. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route.
Street layout
Within 800 m of the centre there are about 56 street intersections per km², and blocks average 99 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 New Edinburgh
- 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 New Edinburgh. Rings mark 500 m and 1 km from the centre. Gaps are water or land without streets.
Nearby neighbourhoods in Ottawa
| Neighbourhood | Distance | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Rockcliffe | 1.3 km | 36 |
| Vanier | 2 km | 86 |
| Centretown | 2.8 km | 98 |
| LeBreton Flats | 3.5 km | 62 |
See every neighbourhood ranked on the Ottawa page.
Questions about walking in New Edinburgh
Is New Edinburgh walkable?
Partly. New Edinburgh in Ottawa has a walkability score of 63 out of 100 across the 1 km around its centre, which makes it somewhat walkable: some errands can be done on foot.
Is New Edinburgh more walkable than the rest of Ottawa?
New Edinburgh is less walkable than Ottawa as a whole: it scores 63, against 70 for the 5 km around Ottawa's centre. It ranks 3rd of the 5 Ottawa neighbourhoods on How Walkable.
What are the most walkable neighbourhoods in Ottawa?
Of the 5 Ottawa neighbourhoods on How Walkable, the most walkable are Centretown (98), Vanier (86) and New Edinburgh (63).
How is the walkability score of New Edinburgh 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 New Edinburgh it is the average of 55 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.
Scores follow a published walkability method, explained in the methodology. Neighbourhood position from Overture Maps, name from Wikidata.