How walkable is Drumcondra?
By Oscar Higson-SpenceUpdated
Drumcondra has a walkability score of 90 out of 100 across the 1 km around its centre, which makes it a Walker's Paradise, where daily errands do not require a car. It is the 2nd most walkable of 5 neighbourhoods ranked in Dublin, which scores 82 as a whole.
What's within walking distance
764 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the centre of Drumcondra. The nearest grocery is Tesco Superstore, about 3 minutes away on foot. It earns full or nearly full points for groceries, restaurants & bars, shopping, coffee, banks, parks and books & libraries.
- Extramart Convenience Store6 min
- Lidl9 min
- Diamond Pizza1 min
- Mintleaf1 min
- Pinto wines1 min
- Jim Markey1 min
- The Lovely Food Company6 min
- Starbucks7 min
- Permanent TSB2 min
- EBS Drumcondra2 min
- Griffith Park4 min
- Unnamed park9 min
- St. Columba's School9 min
- Little Learners9 min
- Cregan Library8 min
- Cregan Library, St. Patrick's College.8 min
- GAA Museum15 min
- Titanic Museum Belfast18 min
Measured from the mapped centre of Drumcondra at 53.3681, -6.2555. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route.
Street layout
Within 800 m of the centre there are about 72 street intersections per km², and blocks average 91 m long. Sparser streets or longer blocks reduce the score by 1%, since they make walks longer than the straight-line distance suggests.
Walkability across Drumcondra
- 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 Drumcondra. Rings mark 500 m and 1 km from the centre. Gaps are water or land without streets.
Nearby neighbourhoods in Dublin
| Neighbourhood | Distance | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Temple Bar | 2.6 km | 100 |
| Ballymun | 3 km | 85 |
| Clontarf | 4 km | 57 |
| Clonskeagh | 7.1 km | 76 |
See every neighbourhood ranked on the Dublin page.
Questions about walking in Drumcondra
Is Drumcondra walkable?
Yes. Drumcondra in Dublin has a walkability score of 90 out of 100 across the 1 km around its centre, which makes it a Walker's Paradise, where daily errands do not require a car.
Is Drumcondra more walkable than the rest of Dublin?
Drumcondra is more walkable than Dublin as a whole: it scores 90, against 82 for the 5 km around Dublin's centre. It ranks 2nd of the 5 Dublin neighbourhoods on How Walkable.
What are the most walkable neighbourhoods in Dublin?
Of the 5 Dublin neighbourhoods on How Walkable, the most walkable are Temple Bar (100), Drumcondra (90) and Ballymun (85).
How is the walkability score of Drumcondra 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 Drumcondra 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.
Scores follow a published walkability method, explained in the methodology. Neighbourhood position from Overture Maps, name from Wikidata.