--- title: "Bandar Menjalara, Petaling Jaya walkability score: 91/100" description: "Bandar Menjalara in Petaling Jaya scores 91/100 for walkability (Walker's Paradise): what's within a walk and how it compares with Petaling Jaya." url: https://howwalkable.com/cities/malaysia/petaling-jaya/bandar-menjalara updated: 2026-10-22 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ --- 1. [Cities](https://howwalkable.com/cities) 2. [Malaysia](https://howwalkable.com/cities/malaysia) 3. [Petaling Jaya](https://howwalkable.com/cities/malaysia/petaling-jaya) 4. Bandar Menjalara # How walkable is Bandar Menjalara, Petaling Jaya? By [Oscar Higson-Spence](https://howwalkable.com/about#author). Updated 22 October 2026 Bandar Menjalara has a walkability score of 91 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 most walkable of the 3 neighbourhoods ranked in Petaling Jaya, which scores 80 as a whole. 91 out of 100: Walker's Paradise Daily errands do not require a car. * #1 of 3 in Petaling Jaya * 80 Petaling Jaya overall * 98 at the centre [Open on the map](https://howwalkable.com/?lat=3.19413&lon=101.62723&q=Bandar%20Menjalara%2C%20Petaling%20Jaya) ## What's within walking distance 723 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the centre of Bandar Menjalara. The nearest grocery is about 5 minutes away on foot. It earns full or nearly full points for groceries, restaurants & bars, shopping, coffee, banks, parks, schools and books & libraries. ### Groceries 3.0 of 3 points * Pasar Ekonomi Econsave Medan Putra Business Center, 5 min * FF Mart SB, 6 min * Lotus's Kepong, 11 min ### Restaurants & bars 3.0 of 3 points * 大家城鸡窝包menjalara, 3 min * 名将美食馆 • Ming Jiong Restaurant, 3 min * Ho Ho 168 Kopitiam, 3 min ### Shopping 2.0 of 2 points * Qmac Lotus's Kepong, 2 min * Sense Capture Bridal Studio, 3 min * Bb Classic Embroidery, 3 min ### Coffee 2.0 of 2 points * Lazy Couch Cafe, 3 min * Cha Don Kopitiam, 3 min * Uncommon Coffee, 3 min ### Banks 1.0 of 1 point * Hong Leong Bank, 5 min * UOB Branch - Kepong, 7 min * Public Bank Menjalara, 8 min ### Parks 1.0 of 1 point * Taman Tasik Menjalara, 1 min * The Central Park, 12 min * The West Park, 15 min ### Schools 1.0 of 1 point * Brainy Kids Learning Centre, 4 min * MRC Kids Bandar Menjalara, 4 min * Kuala Lumpur Islamic School, 6 min ### Books & libraries 1.0 of 1 point * Minioasis Library - Kepong 小綠洲圖書舘 - 甲洞, 3 min * Popular Bookstore, 10 min * Booktique, 24 min ### Culture & entertainment 0.7 of 1 point * The Grand Palace KTV, 10 min * MBO Cinemas, 11 min * GSC, 11 min Measured from the mapped centre of Bandar Menjalara, Petaling Jaya at 3.1941, 101.6272. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route. ## Street layout Within 800 m of the centre there are about 166 street intersections per km², and blocks average 84 m long. That is a well-connected street grid, so the score is not reduced. ## Walkability across Bandar Menjalara, Petaling Jaya ![Walkability scores across the 1 km around the centre of Bandar Menjalara. 100% of points score 70 or more; the lowest, 73, is 900 m to the north.](https://howwalkable.com/maps/malaysia/petaling-jaya/bandar-menjalara.svg?v=8edac5960ab6) Each hexagon is the score at a point across the 1 km around the centre of Bandar Menjalara, Petaling Jaya. Rings mark 500 m and 1 km from the centre. Gaps are water or land without streets. ## Nearby neighbourhoods in Petaling Jaya | Neighbourhood | Distance | Score | | ----------------------------------------------------------- | -------- | ----- | | [Pantai Dalam](https://howwalkable.com/cities/malaysia/petaling-jaya/pantai-dalam) | 11.3 km | 76 | | [Taman OUG](https://howwalkable.com/cities/malaysia/petaling-jaya/taman-oug) | 14.3 km | 82 | See every neighbourhood ranked on the [Petaling Jaya page](https://howwalkable.com/cities/malaysia/petaling-jaya#neighbourhoods). ## Questions about walking in Bandar Menjalara, Petaling Jaya ### Is Bandar Menjalara walkable? Yes. Bandar Menjalara in Petaling Jaya has a walkability score of 91 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 Bandar Menjalara more walkable than the rest of Petaling Jaya? Bandar Menjalara is more walkable than Petaling Jaya as a whole: it scores 91, against 80 for the 5 km around Petaling Jaya's centre. It is the most walkable of the 3 neighbourhoods ranked in Petaling Jaya on How Walkable. ### What are the most walkable neighbourhoods in Petaling Jaya? Of the 3 Petaling Jaya neighbourhoods on How Walkable, the most walkable are Bandar Menjalara (91), Taman OUG (82) and Pantai Dalam (76). ### How is the walkability score of Bandar Menjalara 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 Bandar Menjalara 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 Bandar Menjalara, Petaling Jaya?" 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.