How walkable is Madipakkam, Chennai?
By Oscar Higson-Spence. Updated
Madipakkam has a walkability score of 72 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 15th most walkable of the 20 neighbourhoods ranked in Chennai, with 1 other, which scores 83 as a whole.
What's within walking distance
343 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the centre of Madipakkam. The nearest grocery is about 4 minutes away on foot. It earns full or nearly full points for groceries, shopping, banks and schools. It is weakest for parks.
Groceries
- VN Nila Super Market, 12 min
- Shiv-Jyoti Herbals and Organics, 21 min
Restaurants & bars
- ibaco - Madipakkam, 8 min
- Topi Vappa Biryani, 10 min
Shopping
- MedPlus Vyasarpadi Erukenchery High Road Pharmacy & Lab, 5 min
- Apollo Pharmacy Alandurai, 5 min
Coffee
- Café Coffee Day, 14 min
- Tea Boy, 14 min
Banks
- ICICI Bank, 4 min
- Bank of Baroda, 5 min
Parks
- Pallavaram Park, 22 min
- A.G.S. Colony Park, 25 min
Schools
- Little Buddies Preschool | Kuberan Nagar | Madipakkam, 8 min
- Little Millennium, 9 min
Books & libraries
Culture & entertainment
- Xuân Bách Entertainment 02, 23 min
- Kumaran theatre, 25 min
Measured from the mapped centre of Madipakkam, Chennai at 12.9611, 80.2001. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route.
Street layout
Within 800 m of the centre there are about 253 street intersections per km², and blocks average 60 m long. That is a well-connected street grid, so the score is not reduced.
Walkability across Madipakkam, Chennai
- 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 Madipakkam, Chennai. Rings mark 500 m and 1 km from the centre. Gaps are water or land without streets.
Nearby neighbourhoods in Chennai
| Neighbourhood | Distance | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Puzhuthivakkam | 1.8 km | 77 |
| Adambakkam | 2.5 km | 75 |
| Meenambakkam | 4.1 km | 51 |
| Perungudi | 4.7 km | 70 |
| Palavakkam | 6.1 km | 72 |
| Nandambakkam | 6.3 km | 53 |
| Saidapet | 7.1 km | 79 |
| Thiruvanmiyur | 7.5 km | 84 |
See all 20 neighbourhoods of Chennai ranked by walkability.
Questions about walking in Madipakkam, Chennai
Is Madipakkam walkable?
Yes. Madipakkam in Chennai has a walkability score of 72 out of 100 across the 1 km around its centre, which makes it very walkable: most errands can be done on foot.
Is Madipakkam more walkable than the rest of Chennai?
Madipakkam is less walkable than Chennai as a whole: it scores 72, against 83 for the 5 km around Chennai's centre. It is the joint 15th most walkable of the 20 neighbourhoods ranked in Chennai, with 1 other on How Walkable.
What are the most walkable neighbourhoods in Chennai?
Of the 20 Chennai neighbourhoods on How Walkable, the most walkable are Egmore (93), Kodambakkam (92) and Chetpet (90).
How is the walkability score of Madipakkam 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 Madipakkam 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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