--- title: "Merville, Parañaque walkability score: 79/100 · How Walkable" description: "Merville in Parañaque scores 79/100 for walkability (Very Walkable). What's within a walk, its street layout, and how it compares with the rest of Parañaque." url: https://howwalkable.com/cities/philippines/paranaque/merville updated: 2026-10-22 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ --- 1. [Cities](https://howwalkable.com/cities) 2. [Philippines](https://howwalkable.com/cities/philippines) 3. [Parañaque](https://howwalkable.com/cities/philippines/paranaque) 4. Merville # How walkable is Merville, Parañaque? By [Oscar Higson-Spence](https://howwalkable.com/about#author). Updated 22 October 2026 Merville has a walkability score of 79 out of 100 across the 1 km around its center, which makes it very walkable: most errands can be done on foot. It is the 10th most walkable of the 12 neighborhoods ranked in Parañaque, which scores 83 as a whole. 79 out of 100: Very Walkable Most errands can be accomplished on foot. * #10 of 12 in Parañaque * 83 Parañaque overall * 80 at the center [Open on the map](https://howwalkable.com/?lat=14.49876&lon=121.02112&q=Merville%2C%20Para%C3%B1aque) ## What's within walking distance 350 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the center of Merville. The nearest grocery is about 7 minutes away on foot. It earns full or nearly full points for groceries, coffee, parks, schools and culture & entertainment. It is weakest for books & libraries. ### Groceries 2.7 of 3 points * Carmelite Mini Mart, 7 min * Puregold - Moonwalk, 14 min * Main Avenue Drug, 15 min ### Restaurants & bars 2.1 of 3 points * Le Délice, 6 min * The Village Breadhouse Cafe, 10 min * Hot Chix, 10 min ### Shopping 1.5 of 2 points * Una Ricci, 6 min * 7-Eleven, 10 min * Moonwalk Pharmacy, 11 min ### Coffee 1.9 of 2 points * Boathouse Cafe, 4 min * AudaciTea Tea Studio, 10 min * Wake and Make Coffee, 11 min ### Banks 0.7 of 1 point * BPI Family Savings Bank, 11 min * BDO Unibank, 11 min * BDO, 11 min ### Parks 1.0 of 1 point * Merville Amphitheatre Park, 1 min * Barcelona Park, 9 min * Guadalajara Park, 13 min ### Schools 1.0 of 1 point * Merville Sacred Heart School, 1 min * International Children's House, 2 min * Maria Montessori Children's School Foundation, 3 min ### Books & libraries 0.0 of 1 point * None within a 30 minute walk ### Culture & entertainment 1.0 of 1 point * Merville Ampitheater, 1 min * Pete's Place Music Room, 14 min * Mariano South Centerpoint, 17 min Measured from the mapped center of Merville, Parañaque at 14.4988, 121.0211. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route. ## Street layout Within 800 m of the center there are about 116 street intersections per km², and blocks average 86 m long. That is a well-connected street grid, so the score is not reduced. ## Walkability across Merville, Parañaque ![Walkability scores across the 1 km around the center of Merville. 91% of points score 70 or more; the lowest, 54, is 900 m to the north.](https://howwalkable.com/maps/philippines/paranaque/merville.svg?v=33c40c3d1ea4) Each hexagon is the score at a point across the 1 km around the center of Merville, Parañaque. Rings mark 500 m and 1 km from the center. Gaps are water or land without streets. ## Nearby neighborhoods in Parañaque | Neighborhood | Distance | Score | | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------- | ----- | | [Moonwalk](https://howwalkable.com/cities/philippines/paranaque/neighbourhoods#moonwalk) | 1 km | 80 | | [Sun Valley](https://howwalkable.com/cities/philippines/paranaque/neighbourhoods#sun-valley) | 1.7 km | 86 | | [Vitalez](https://howwalkable.com/cities/philippines/paranaque/neighbourhoods#vitalez) | 1.9 km | 89 | | [San Martin de Porres](https://howwalkable.com/cities/philippines/paranaque/neighbourhoods#san-martin-de-porres) | 2.4 km | 86 | | [Don Galo](https://howwalkable.com/cities/philippines/paranaque/don-galo) | 3.3 km | 78 | | [San Antonio](https://howwalkable.com/cities/philippines/paranaque/san-antonio) | 3.3 km | 86 | | [San Isidro](https://howwalkable.com/cities/philippines/paranaque/neighbourhoods#san-isidro) | 3.4 km | 81 | | [San Dionisio](https://howwalkable.com/cities/philippines/paranaque/neighbourhoods#san-dionisio) | 3.4 km | 70 | See [all 12 neighborhoods of Parañaque ranked by walkability](https://howwalkable.com/cities/philippines/paranaque/neighbourhoods). ## Questions about walking in Merville, Parañaque ### Is Merville walkable? Yes. Merville in Parañaque has a walkability score of 79 out of 100 across the 1 km around its center, which makes it very walkable: most errands can be done on foot. ### Is Merville more walkable than the rest of Parañaque? Merville is less walkable than Parañaque as a whole: it scores 79, against 83 for the 5 km around Parañaque's center. It is the 10th most walkable of the 12 neighborhoods ranked in Parañaque on How Walkable. ### What are the most walkable neighborhoods in Parañaque? Of the 12 Parañaque neighborhoods on How Walkable, the most walkable are Baclaran (94), Vitalez (89), Sun Valley (86), San Martin de Porres (86) and San Antonio (86). ### How is the walkability score of Merville 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 Merville it is the average of 56 points spread evenly across the 1 km around its mapped center, 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. Neighborhood 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 Merville, Parañaque?" 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.