How walkable is Poll, Cologne?
By Oscar Higson-Spence. Updated
Poll has a walkability score of 60 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 joint 14th most walkable of the 18 neighbourhoods ranked in Cologne, with 1 other, which scores 83 as a whole.
What's within walking distance
211 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the centre of Poll. The nearest grocery is about 10 minutes away on foot. It earns full or nearly full points for shopping, banks, parks, books & libraries and culture & entertainment.
Groceries
- Aldi Sud, 14 min
- Barilla, 25 min
Restaurants & bars
- La Malizia Pizzeria, 2 min
- Flo Salento, 4 min
Shopping
- Furryfit, 5 min
- Töpferstudio Köln - Huber Keramik, 5 min
Coffee
- Eiscafe Rialto, 10 min
- Cem Cafe, 19 min
Banks
- Volksbank Koln Bonn, 10 min
- Sparkasse KölnBonn - mobile Sparkasse, 14 min
Parks
- Äußerer Grüngürtel, 27 min
- Friedenspark, 29 min
Schools
- Bildungsinstitut der Rheinischen Wirtschaft, 11 min
- DGBB - Deutsche Gesellschaft für berufliche Bildung, 11 min
Books & libraries
- Theodor Wonja Michael Bibliothek Köln, 23 min
- Buchhandlung Goltsteinstraße, 28 min
Culture & entertainment
- Dt. Zentrum Für Schauspiel & Film, 5 min
- Südbrücke Open Air, 18 min
Measured from the mapped centre of Poll, Cologne at 50.9121, 6.9889. 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 98 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 Poll, 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 Poll, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bayenthal | 1.4 km | 94 |
| Deutz | 3 km | 90 |
| Zollstock | 3.3 km | 86 |
| Neustadt-Süd | 3.8 km | 98 |
| Altstadt-Nord | 4.2 km | 99 |
| Buchforst | 4.4 km | 90 |
| Ostheim | 4.5 km | 63 |
| Sülz | 4.6 km | 95 |
See all 18 neighbourhoods of Cologne ranked by walkability.
Questions about walking in Poll, Cologne
Is Poll walkable?
Partly. Poll in Cologne has a walkability score of 60 out of 100 across the 1.3 km around its centre, which makes it somewhat walkable: some errands can be done on foot.
Is Poll more walkable than the rest of Cologne?
Poll is less walkable than Cologne as a whole: it scores 60, against 83 for the 5 km around Cologne's centre. It is the joint 14th most walkable of the 18 neighbourhoods ranked in Cologne, with 1 other 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 Poll 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 Poll it is the average of 41 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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