--- title: "Dandora, Nairobi walkability score: 14/100 · How Walkable" description: "Dandora in Nairobi scores 14/100 for walkability (Car-Dependent). What's within a walk, its street layout, and how it compares with the rest of Nairobi." url: https://howwalkable.com/cities/kenya/nairobi/dandora updated: 2026-10-22 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ --- 1. [Cities](https://howwalkable.com/cities) 2. [Kenya](https://howwalkable.com/cities/kenya) 3. [Nairobi](https://howwalkable.com/cities/kenya/nairobi) 4. Dandora # How walkable is Dandora, Nairobi? By [Oscar Higson-Spence](https://howwalkable.com/about#author). Updated 22 October 2026 Dandora has a walkability score of 14 out of 100 across the 1 km around its centre, which makes it car-dependent: almost all errands require a car. It is the least walkable of the 17 neighbourhoods ranked in Nairobi, which scores 56 as a whole. 14 out of 100: Car-Dependent Almost all errands require a car. * #17 of 17 in Nairobi * 56 Nairobi overall * 11 at the centre [Open on the map](https://howwalkable.com/?lat=-1.24491&lon=36.90608&q=Dandora%2C%20Nairobi) ## What's within walking distance 17 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the centre of Dandora. The nearest grocery is about 28 minutes away on foot. It is weakest for groceries, restaurants & bars, shopping, coffee, banks, parks, books & libraries and culture & entertainment. ### Groceries 0.1 of 3 points * Naivas, 28 min ### Restaurants & bars 0.2 of 3 points * Don George Lounge, 19 min * G-Sport Bar and Grill, 23 min ### Shopping 0.5 of 2 points * Superchem Pharmacy, 8 min * Happy Baby Shop, 26 min * Elasi Interiors, 28 min ### Coffee 0.0 of 2 points * None within a 30 minute walk ### Banks 0.0 of 1 point * None within a 30 minute walk ### Parks 0.3 of 1 point * Lucky Summer Play Ground, 17 min ### Schools 0.5 of 1 point * LUCKY SHAMIR Academy, 13 min * ST LORNA Academy\_Luckysummer, 15 min * Shannex Junior School Nairobi, 28 min ### Books & libraries 0.0 of 1 point * None within a 30 minute walk ### Culture & entertainment 0.1 of 1 point * Mowlem Heights, 20 min Measured from the mapped centre of Dandora, Nairobi at -1.2449, 36.9061. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route. ## Street layout Within 800 m of the centre there are about 177 street intersections per km², and blocks average 62 m long. That is a well-connected street grid, so the score is not reduced. ## Walkability across Dandora, Nairobi ![Walkability scores across the 1 km around the centre of Dandora. 0% of points score 70 or more; the lowest, 4, is 650 m to the east.](https://howwalkable.com/maps/kenya/nairobi/dandora.svg?v=6a182932a0eb) Each hexagon is the score at a point across the 1 km around the centre of Dandora, Nairobi. Rings mark 500 m and 1 km from the centre. Gaps are water or land without streets. ## Nearby neighbourhoods in Nairobi | Neighbourhood | Distance | Score | | ------------------------------------------------------------- | -------- | ----- | | [Korogocho](https://howwalkable.com/cities/kenya/nairobi/korogocho) | 1.9 km | 26 | | [Kariobangi](https://howwalkable.com/cities/kenya/nairobi/neighbourhoods#kariobangi) | 3.1 km | 28 | | [Thome](https://howwalkable.com/cities/kenya/nairobi/neighbourhoods#thome) | 4.4 km | 37 | | [Makadara](https://howwalkable.com/cities/kenya/nairobi/neighbourhoods#makadara) | 6.8 km | 42 | | [Eastleigh](https://howwalkable.com/cities/kenya/nairobi/eastleigh) | 7.2 km | 67 | | [Ofafa](https://howwalkable.com/cities/kenya/nairobi/neighbourhoods#ofafa) | 7.3 km | 48 | | [Bahati](https://howwalkable.com/cities/kenya/nairobi/neighbourhoods#bahati) | 7.7 km | 52 | | [Pumwani](https://howwalkable.com/cities/kenya/nairobi/neighbourhoods#pumwani) | 7.9 km | 67 | See [all 17 neighbourhoods of Nairobi ranked by walkability](https://howwalkable.com/cities/kenya/nairobi/neighbourhoods). ## Questions about walking in Dandora, Nairobi ### Is Dandora walkable? Not very. Dandora in Nairobi has a walkability score of 14 out of 100 across the 1 km around its centre, which makes it car-dependent: almost all errands require a car. ### Is Dandora more walkable than the rest of Nairobi? Dandora is less walkable than Nairobi as a whole: it scores 14, against 56 for the 5 km around Nairobi's centre. It is the least walkable of the 17 neighbourhoods ranked in Nairobi on How Walkable. ### What are the most walkable neighbourhoods in Nairobi? Of the 17 Nairobi neighbourhoods on How Walkable, the most walkable are Eastleigh (67), Pumwani (67), Bahati (52) and Gigiri (52). ### How is the walkability score of Dandora 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 Dandora 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 Dandora, Nairobi?" 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.