--- title: "Meenambakkam, Chennai walkability score: 51/100" description: "Meenambakkam in Chennai scores 51/100 for walkability (Somewhat Walkable): what's within a walk and how it compares with Chennai." url: https://howwalkable.com/cities/india/chennai/meenambakkam 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. Meenambakkam # How walkable is Meenambakkam, Chennai? By [Oscar Higson-Spence](https://howwalkable.com/about#author). Updated 22 October 2026 Meenambakkam has a walkability score of 51 out of 100 across the 1.6 km around its centre, which makes it somewhat walkable: some errands can be done on foot. It is the least walkable of the 20 neighbourhoods ranked in Chennai, which scores 83 as a whole. 51 out of 100: Somewhat Walkable Some errands can be accomplished on foot. * #20 of 20 in Chennai * 83 Chennai overall * 40 at the centre [Open on the map](https://howwalkable.com/?lat=12.98660&lon=80.17264&q=Meenambakkam%2C%20Chennai) ## What's within walking distance 75 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the centre of Meenambakkam. There is no grocery store within a 30 minute walk. It earns full or nearly full points for banks and books & libraries. It is weakest for groceries, parks, schools and culture & entertainment. ### Groceries 0.0 of 3 points * None within a 30 minute walk ### Restaurants & bars 1.9 of 3 points * Hotel Virudhunagar, 5 min * Subway Airport, 12 min * Travel Club Premium Travellers Lounge, 13 min ### Shopping 1.1 of 2 points * Apollo Pharmacy, 6 min * SUGAR Cosmetics - Makeup & Skin Care, 14 min * Chennai - Domestic Airport, 15 min ### Coffee 1.4 of 2 points * Chai Kings, 8 min * The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, 14 min * Cafe Coffee Day, 15 min ### Banks 1.0 of 1 point * IndusInd Bank ATM, 4 min * Bank of Baroda, 5 min * HDFC Bank, 9 min ### Parks 0.0 of 1 point * Unnamed park, 29 min ### Schools 0.0 of 1 point * None within a 30 minute walk ### Books & libraries 0.9 of 1 point * Odyssey Book Stores, 7 min ### Culture & entertainment 0.0 of 1 point * Vetrivelcinemas, 29 min Measured from the mapped centre of Meenambakkam, Chennai at 12.9866, 80.1726. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route. ## Street layout Within 800 m of the centre there are about 32 street intersections per km², and blocks average 85 m long. Sparser streets or longer blocks reduce the score by 4%, since they make walks longer than the straight-line distance suggests. ## Walkability across Meenambakkam, Chennai ![Walkability scores across the 1.6 km around the centre of Meenambakkam. 17% of points score 70 or more; the lowest, 17, is 1 km to the north-east.](https://howwalkable.com/maps/india/chennai/meenambakkam.svg?v=caa07d61e21e) Each hexagon is the score at a point across the 1.6 km around the centre of Meenambakkam, Chennai. Rings mark 800 m and 1.6 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) | 2.8 km | 77 | | [Nandambakkam](https://howwalkable.com/cities/india/chennai/neighbourhoods#nandambakkam) | 3.9 km | 53 | | [Adambakkam](https://howwalkable.com/cities/india/chennai/neighbourhoods#adambakkam) | 4 km | 75 | | [Madipakkam](https://howwalkable.com/cities/india/chennai/madipakkam) | 4.1 km | 72 | | [Ramapuram](https://howwalkable.com/cities/india/chennai/neighbourhoods#ramapuram) | 4.9 km | 80 | | [Saidapet](https://howwalkable.com/cities/india/chennai/neighbourhoods#saidapet) | 6.7 km | 79 | | [Perungudi](https://howwalkable.com/cities/india/chennai/perungudi) | 7.7 km | 70 | | [Kodambakkam](https://howwalkable.com/cities/india/chennai/neighbourhoods#kodambakkam) | 8.9 km | 92 | See [all 20 neighbourhoods of Chennai ranked by walkability](https://howwalkable.com/cities/india/chennai/neighbourhoods). ## Questions about walking in Meenambakkam, Chennai ### Is Meenambakkam walkable? Partly. Meenambakkam in Chennai has a walkability score of 51 out of 100 across the 1.6 km around its centre, which makes it somewhat walkable: some errands can be done on foot. ### Is Meenambakkam more walkable than the rest of Chennai? Meenambakkam is less walkable than Chennai as a whole: it scores 51, against 83 for the 5 km around Chennai's centre. It is the least walkable of the 20 neighbourhoods ranked in Chennai 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 Meenambakkam 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 Meenambakkam it is the average of 34 points spread evenly across the 1.6 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 Meenambakkam, 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.