How walkable is Cooke Town, Bengaluru?
By Oscar Higson-Spence. Updated
Cooke Town has a walkability score of 84 out of 100 across the 1 km around its centre, which makes it very walkable: most errands can be done on foot. It is the joint 3rd most walkable of the 8 neighbourhoods ranked in Bengaluru, with 1 other, which scores 84 as a whole.
What's within walking distance
501 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the centre of Cooke Town. The nearest grocery is about 10 minutes away on foot. It earns full or nearly full points for restaurants & bars, shopping, coffee, banks, parks, schools and books & libraries.
Groceries
- Marks and Spencer, 13 min
- Carry Fresh Hypermarket, 17 min
Restaurants & bars
- Sunny Side Up, 3 min
- Chillies Restaurant, 5 min
Shopping
- Basha Departmental Stores, 3 min
- South City Mall, Kolkata, 5 min
Coffee
- Sanctuary Cafe, 6 min
- Savera Cafe, 13 min
Banks
- State Bank Of India, 2 min
- Axis Bank, 4 min
Parks
- Cooke Town Park, 6 min
- Sarvagna Park, 10 min
Schools
- Maria Niketan High School, 3 min
- Totsland Enrichment Centre, 5 min
Books & libraries
- Animation Souk, 7 min
- Pushpa Book House, 15 min
Culture & entertainment
- Tripti Party Hall, 17 min
- Eclipse Jam Room, 18 min
Measured from the mapped centre of Cooke Town, Bengaluru at 13.0022, 77.6252. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route.
Street layout
Within 800 m of the centre there are about 260 street intersections per km², and blocks average 58 m long. That is a well-connected street grid, so the score is not reduced.
Walkability across Cooke Town, Bengaluru
- 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 Cooke Town, Bengaluru. Rings mark 500 m and 1 km from the centre. Gaps are water or land without streets.
Nearby neighbourhoods in Bengaluru
| Neighbourhood | Distance | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Halasuru | 2.7 km | 79 |
| Austin Town | 4.7 km | 76 |
| Richmond Town | 5 km | 93 |
| Ejipura | 6.3 km | 80 |
| Milk Colony | 7.3 km | 92 |
| Hulimavu | 14.1 km | 84 |
| Rajarajeshwari Nagar | 14.5 km | 80 |
See all 8 neighbourhoods of Bengaluru ranked by walkability.
Questions about walking in Cooke Town, Bengaluru
Is Cooke Town walkable?
Yes. Cooke Town in Bengaluru has a walkability score of 84 out of 100 across the 1 km around its centre, which makes it very walkable: most errands can be done on foot.
Is Cooke Town more walkable than the rest of Bengaluru?
Cooke Town is about as walkable as Bengaluru as a whole: it scores 84, against 84 for the 5 km around Bengaluru's centre. It is the joint 3rd most walkable of the 8 neighbourhoods ranked in Bengaluru, with 1 other on How Walkable.
What are the most walkable neighbourhoods in Bengaluru?
Of the 8 Bengaluru neighbourhoods on How Walkable, the most walkable are Richmond Town (93), Milk Colony (92), Cooke Town (84) and Hulimavu (84).
How is the walkability score of Cooke Town 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 Cooke Town it is the average of 61 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. 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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