--- title: "Cooke Town, Bengaluru walkability score: 84/100" description: "Cooke Town in Bengaluru scores 84/100 for walkability (Very Walkable). What's within a walk, its street layout, and how it compares with the rest of Bengaluru." url: https://howwalkable.com/cities/india/bengaluru/cooke-town updated: 2026-10-22 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ --- 1. [Cities](https://howwalkable.com/cities) 2. [India](https://howwalkable.com/cities/india) 3. [Bengaluru](https://howwalkable.com/cities/india/bengaluru) 4. Cooke Town # How walkable is Cooke Town, Bengaluru? By [Oscar Higson-Spence](https://howwalkable.com/about#author). Updated 22 October 2026 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. 84 out of 100: Very Walkable Most errands can be accomplished on foot. * #3 of 8 tied, in Bengaluru * 84 Bengaluru overall * 89 at the centre [Open on the map](https://howwalkable.com/?lat=13.00220&lon=77.62518&q=Cooke%20Town%2C%20Bengaluru) ## 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 2.1 of 3 points * Reliance Fresh, 10 min * Marks and Spencer, 13 min * Carry Fresh Hypermarket, 17 min ### Restaurants & bars 2.7 of 3 points * Foyer, 1 min * Sunny Side Up, 3 min * Chillies Restaurant, 5 min ### Shopping 2.0 of 2 points * Excitel Broadband, 1 min * Basha Departmental Stores, 3 min * South City Mall, Kolkata, 5 min ### Coffee 2.0 of 2 points * Café Coffee Day, 4 min * Sanctuary Cafe, 6 min * Savera Cafe, 13 min ### Banks 1.0 of 1 point * Andhra Bank, 1 min * State Bank Of India, 2 min * Axis Bank, 4 min ### Parks 1.0 of 1 point * Milton Street Park, 2 min * Cooke Town Park, 6 min * Sarvagna Park, 10 min ### Schools 1.0 of 1 point * Mariam Nivas High School, 2 min * Maria Niketan High School, 3 min * Totsland Enrichment Centre, 5 min ### Books & libraries 1.0 of 1 point * Lightroom Book Store, 6 min * Animation Souk, 7 min * Pushpa Book House, 15 min ### Culture & entertainment 0.5 of 1 point * Curious Kids by SkyJumper, 13 min * 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 ![Walkability scores across the 1 km around the centre of Cooke Town. 93% of points score 70 or more; the lowest, 61, is 1 km to the south-east.](https://howwalkable.com/maps/india/bengaluru/cooke-town.svg?v=f090d3b1dc04) 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](https://howwalkable.com/cities/india/bengaluru/halasuru) | 2.7 km | 79 | | [Austin Town](https://howwalkable.com/cities/india/bengaluru/austin-town) | 4.7 km | 76 | | [Richmond Town](https://howwalkable.com/cities/india/bengaluru/neighbourhoods#richmond-town) | 5 km | 93 | | [Ejipura](https://howwalkable.com/cities/india/bengaluru/ejipura) | 6.3 km | 80 | | [Milk Colony](https://howwalkable.com/cities/india/bengaluru/neighbourhoods#milk-colony) | 7.3 km | 92 | | [Hulimavu](https://howwalkable.com/cities/india/bengaluru/neighbourhoods#hulimavu) | 14.1 km | 84 | | [Rajarajeshwari Nagar](https://howwalkable.com/cities/india/bengaluru/rajarajeshwari-nagar) | 14.5 km | 80 | See [all 8 neighbourhoods of Bengaluru ranked by walkability](https://howwalkable.com/cities/india/bengaluru/neighbourhoods). ## 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](https://howwalkable.com/methodology). Places from Overture Maps release 2026-09-23.1. Neighbourhood position from Overture Maps, name from Wikidata. Ask about walking anywhere in ChatGPT with the [How Walkable app](https://chatgpt.com/plugins/plugin_asdk_app_6accc634bcf8819189c1bcaf0e227f0f), for example "How walkable is Cooke Town, Bengaluru?" Scores, rankings and text by How Walkable (https://howwalkable.com), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); credit How Walkable and link to this page when reusing them.