How walkable is Bocklemünd/Mengenich, Cologne?
By Oscar Higson-Spence. Updated
Bocklemünd/Mengenich has a walkability score of 46 out of 100 across the 1.3 km around its centre, which makes it car-dependent: most errands require a car. It is the 16th most walkable of the 18 neighbourhoods ranked in Cologne, which scores 83 as a whole.
What's within walking distance
131 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the centre of Bocklemünd/Mengenich. The nearest grocery is about 12 minutes away on foot. It earns full or nearly full points for parks and schools. It is weakest for coffee and culture & entertainment.
Groceries
- REWE, 13 min
- Penny Zentrallager Koln Bocklemund Venloer Strasse, 28 min
Restaurants & bars
- Imbissstube Bei Dimi, 11 min
- Altes Poststadion, 11 min
Shopping
- AMCOR Product Service, 10 min
- Clean Klimt Steinreinigung, 11 min
Coffee
- About Tea And Coffee Shop, 23 min
- Dinger's Palmencafe, 30 min
Banks
- Sparkasse KölnBonn - mobile Sparkasse, 14 min
- Sparda-Bank West eG, 14 min
Parks
- Hundefreilauffläche Nüssenberger Str., 6 min
- Hundefreilauffläche ehem. KVB Trasse, 8 min
Schools
- MyDagis, 9 min
- Kath. Kindertagesstätte des SKM-Zentrums Bocklemünd, 12 min
Books & libraries
Culture & entertainment
Measured from the mapped centre of Bocklemünd/Mengenich, Cologne at 50.9762, 6.8612. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route.
Street layout
Within 800 m of the centre there are about 35 street intersections per km², and blocks average 126 m long. Sparser streets or longer blocks reduce the score by 4%, since they make walks longer than the straight-line distance suggests.
Walkability across Bocklemünd/Mengenich, Cologne
- 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 Bocklemünd/Mengenich, Cologne. Rings mark 650 m and 1.3 km from the centre. Gaps are water or land without streets.
Nearby neighbourhoods in Cologne
| Neighbourhood | Distance | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Belgian Quarter | 6.7 km | 98 |
| Niehl | 7.3 km | 61 |
| Fühlingen | 7.5 km | 34 |
| Altstadt-Nord | 7.5 km | 99 |
| Sülz | 7.8 km | 95 |
| Neustadt-Süd | 7.8 km | 98 |
| Riehl | 8.2 km | 84 |
| Flittard | 8.6 km | 37 |
See all 18 neighbourhoods of Cologne ranked by walkability.
Questions about walking in Bocklemünd/Mengenich, Cologne
Is Bocklemünd/Mengenich walkable?
Not very. Bocklemünd/Mengenich in Cologne has a walkability score of 46 out of 100 across the 1.3 km around its centre, which makes it car-dependent: most errands require a car.
Is Bocklemünd/Mengenich more walkable than the rest of Cologne?
Bocklemünd/Mengenich is less walkable than Cologne as a whole: it scores 46, against 83 for the 5 km around Cologne's centre. It is the 16th most walkable of the 18 neighbourhoods ranked in Cologne on How Walkable.
What are the most walkable neighbourhoods in Cologne?
Of the 18 Cologne neighbourhoods on How Walkable, the most walkable are Altstadt-Nord (99), the Belgian Quarter (98) and Neustadt-Süd (98).
How is the walkability score of Bocklemünd/Mengenich 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 Bocklemünd/Mengenich it is the average of 43 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. 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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