How walkable is Zollstock, Cologne?
By Oscar Higson-Spence. Updated
Zollstock has a walkability score of 86 out of 100 across the 1.3 km around its centre, which makes it very walkable: most errands can be done on foot. It is the 8th most walkable of the 18 neighbourhoods ranked in Cologne, which scores 83 as a whole.
What's within walking distance
1,270 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the centre of Zollstock. The nearest grocery is about 3 minutes away on foot. It earns full or nearly full points for groceries, restaurants & bars, shopping, coffee, banks, parks, schools and books & libraries.
Groceries
- Zollstock unverpackt, 3 min
- Kremerius Thomas Getränkehandel Getränkefachhandel, 7 min
Restaurants & bars
- Bäckerei Heinemann, 1 min
- Schmitz & Nittenwilm, 1 min
Shopping
- Bazar, 1 min
- Quick Schuh, 1 min
Coffee
- Die Crepe Bude, 1 min
- Alte Wäscherei, 2 min
Banks
- Sparkasse KölnBonn - SB-Standort, 21 min
- Volksbank Köln Bonn, 22 min
Parks
- Vorgebirgspark, 7 min
- Hundefreilauffläche Vorgebirgspark, 7 min
Schools
- Gemeinschaftsgrundschule Rosenzweigweg, 4 min
- Sankt-Nikolaus-Grundschule, 5 min
Books & libraries
- Mayersche, 21 min
- Stadtteilbibliothek Sülz, 22 min
Culture & entertainment
- Camera Department Film- Und Fernsehproduktion, 14 min
- Arturo Theater, 15 min
Measured from the mapped centre of Zollstock, Cologne at 50.9099, 6.9417. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route.
Street layout
Within 800 m of the centre there are about 75 street intersections per km², and blocks average 92 m long. Sparser streets or longer blocks reduce the score by 1%, since they make walks longer than the straight-line distance suggests.
Walkability across Zollstock, 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 Zollstock, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sülz | 1.6 km | 95 |
| Neustadt-Süd | 1.9 km | 98 |
| Bayenthal | 1.9 km | 94 |
| Belgian Quarter | 3.2 km | 98 |
| Poll | 3.3 km | 60 |
| Deutz | 3.7 km | 90 |
| Altstadt-Nord | 3.7 km | 99 |
| Buchforst | 6.4 km | 90 |
See all 18 neighbourhoods of Cologne ranked by walkability.
Questions about walking in Zollstock, Cologne
Is Zollstock walkable?
Yes. Zollstock in Cologne has a walkability score of 86 out of 100 across the 1.3 km around its centre, which makes it very walkable: most errands can be done on foot.
Is Zollstock more walkable than the rest of Cologne?
Zollstock is more walkable than Cologne as a whole: it scores 86, against 83 for the 5 km around Cologne's centre. It is the 8th 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 Zollstock 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 Zollstock it is the average of 54 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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