--- title: "Madipakkam, Chennai walkability score: 72/100 · How Walkable" description: "Madipakkam in Chennai scores 72/100 for walkability (Very Walkable). What's within a walk, its street layout, and how it compares with the rest of Chennai." url: https://howwalkable.com/cities/india/chennai/madipakkam 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. [Chennai](https://howwalkable.com/cities/india/chennai) 4. Madipakkam # How walkable is Madipakkam, Chennai? By [Oscar Higson-Spence](https://howwalkable.com/about#author). Updated 22 October 2026 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. 72 out of 100: Very Walkable Most errands can be accomplished on foot. * #15 of 20 tied, in Chennai * 83 Chennai overall * 76 at the centre [Open on the map](https://howwalkable.com/?lat=12.96113&lon=80.20013&q=Madipakkam%2C%20Chennai) ## 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 3.0 of 3 points * Reliance Fresh, 4 min * VN Nila Super Market, 12 min * Shiv-Jyoti Herbals and Organics, 21 min ### Restaurants & bars 1.8 of 3 points * Al Arabian Delights, 7 min * ibaco - Madipakkam, 8 min * Topi Vappa Biryani, 10 min ### Shopping 2.0 of 2 points * Medplus, 5 min * MedPlus Vyasarpadi Erukenchery High Road Pharmacy & Lab, 5 min * Apollo Pharmacy Alandurai, 5 min ### Coffee 1.0 of 2 points * Cafe 64 Madipakkam, 13 min * Café Coffee Day, 14 min * Tea Boy, 14 min ### Banks 1.0 of 1 point * Punjab National Bank, 2 min * ICICI Bank, 4 min * Bank of Baroda, 5 min ### Parks 0.3 of 1 point * Chennai - Arul Murugan Public Park, 18 min * Pallavaram Park, 22 min * A.G.S. Colony Park, 25 min ### Schools 1.0 of 1 point * Priyam International Play School, 6 min * Little Buddies Preschool | Kuberan Nagar | Madipakkam, 8 min * Little Millennium, 9 min ### Books & libraries 0.8 of 1 point * South vision books, 8 min ### Culture & entertainment 0.5 of 1 point * Sanandaahall, 14 min * 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 ![Walkability scores across the 1 km around the centre of Madipakkam. 70% of points score 70 or more; the lowest, 50, is 900 m to the south-east.](https://howwalkable.com/maps/india/chennai/madipakkam.svg?v=83aa16c757a9) 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](https://howwalkable.com/cities/india/chennai/neighbourhoods#puzhuthivakkam) | 1.8 km | 77 | | [Adambakkam](https://howwalkable.com/cities/india/chennai/neighbourhoods#adambakkam) | 2.5 km | 75 | | [Meenambakkam](https://howwalkable.com/cities/india/chennai/meenambakkam) | 4.1 km | 51 | | [Perungudi](https://howwalkable.com/cities/india/chennai/perungudi) | 4.7 km | 70 | | [Palavakkam](https://howwalkable.com/cities/india/chennai/palavakkam) | 6.1 km | 72 | | [Nandambakkam](https://howwalkable.com/cities/india/chennai/neighbourhoods#nandambakkam) | 6.3 km | 53 | | [Saidapet](https://howwalkable.com/cities/india/chennai/neighbourhoods#saidapet) | 7.1 km | 79 | | [Thiruvanmiyur](https://howwalkable.com/cities/india/chennai/neighbourhoods#thiruvanmiyur) | 7.5 km | 84 | See [all 20 neighbourhoods of Chennai ranked by walkability](https://howwalkable.com/cities/india/chennai/neighbourhoods). ## 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](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 Madipakkam, Chennai?" 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.