How walkable is Blindern, Oslo?
By Oscar Higson-Spence. Updated
Blindern has a walkability score of 89 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 10th most walkable of the 20 neighbourhoods ranked in Oslo, which scores 75 as a whole.
What's within walking distance
909 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the centre of Blindern. The nearest grocery is about a minute away on foot. It earns full or nearly full points for groceries, restaurants & bars, coffee, parks, schools, books & libraries and culture & entertainment. It is weakest for banks.
Groceries
- KIWI Trikkesløyfa, 6 min
- Joker blindern, 8 min
Restaurants & bars
- Tacoteket, 1 min
- RF-Kjelleren, 1 min
Shopping
- Hallsystemer, 8 min
- Premie-Magasinet, 12 min
Coffee
- Lise Kaffebar, 4 min
- Parken Bakeri, 6 min
Banks
- Handelsbanken avd Majorstuen - Handelsbanken Majorstuen, 20 min
- DNB Majorstuen, 21 min
Parks
- Arvid Storsveens plass, 4 min
- Marienlystparken, 9 min
Schools
- Sognsveien barnehage, 7 min
- Marienlyst Gård Barnehage, 10 min
Books & libraries
- Vilhelm Bjerknes' Hus, 1 min
- Akademika, 1 min
Culture & entertainment
- Eilert Sundts hus, 3 min
- Barnekunstmuseet, 13 min
Measured from the mapped centre of Blindern, Oslo at 59.9402, 10.7223. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route.
Street layout
Within 800 m of the centre there are about 83 street intersections per km², and blocks average 74 m long. That is a well-connected street grid, so the score is not reduced.
Walkability across Blindern, Oslo
- 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 Blindern, Oslo. Rings mark 500 m and 1 km from the centre. Gaps are water or land without streets.
Nearby neighbourhoods in Oslo
| Neighbourhood | Distance | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Adamstuen | 950 m | 93 |
| Majorstuen | 1.3 km | 95 |
| Uranienborg | 2.2 km | 99 |
| Nordberg | 2.3 km | 65 |
| Aker Brygge | 3.4 km | 98 |
| Sentrum | 3.6 km | 98 |
| Tøyen | 3.7 km | 97 |
| Grønland | 3.8 km | 98 |
See all 20 neighbourhoods of Oslo ranked by walkability.
Questions about walking in Blindern, Oslo
Is Blindern walkable?
Yes. Blindern in Oslo has a walkability score of 89 out of 100 across the 1 km around its centre, which makes it very walkable: most errands can be done on foot.
Is Blindern more walkable than the rest of Oslo?
Blindern is more walkable than Oslo as a whole: it scores 89, against 75 for the 5 km around Oslo's centre. It is the 10th most walkable of the 20 neighbourhoods ranked in Oslo on How Walkable.
What are the most walkable neighbourhoods in Oslo?
Of the 20 Oslo neighbourhoods on How Walkable, the most walkable are Uranienborg (99), Sentrum (98), Grønland (98) and Aker Brygge (98).
How is the walkability score of Blindern 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 Blindern 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. Places from Overture Maps release 2026-09-23.1. Neighbourhood position from Overture Maps, name from Wikidata.
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