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How walkable is Payatas, Quezon City?
By Oscar Higson-Spence. Updated
Payatas has a walkability score of 71 out of 100 across the 1.1 km around its center, which makes it very walkable: most errands can be done on foot. It is the 16th most walkable of the 18 neighborhoods ranked in Quezon City, which scores 90 as a whole.
What's within walking distance
241 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the center of Payatas. The nearest grocery is about 4 minutes away on foot. It earns full or nearly full points for groceries, restaurants & bars, shopping, schools and culture & entertainment. It is weakest for parks and books & libraries.
Groceries
- Waltermart Junction Place Novaliches, 14 min
- Merly's Sari-sari Store, 16 min
Restaurants & bars
- Papa Pizza, 5 min
- Morning Star Payatas B Quezon City, 5 min
Shopping
- Fish-in-nature, 4 min
- TGP The Generics Pharmacy, 6 min
Coffee
- BigBrew Gravel Pit Payatas, 11 min
- CAFÉ dela REINA, 12 min
Banks
- BDO, 19 min
- Bank Of Commerce, 27 min
Parks
- Doña Carmen Park, 23 min
- Spring Country Clubhouse Park, 24 min
Schools
- Siloam Christian Academy, 3 min
- Inclusive Education Center, 4 min
Books & libraries
Culture & entertainment
- Dulaang Unibersidad ng Pilipinas (DUP Official Page), 18 min
- Museo de Monzon, 24 min
Measured from the mapped center of Payatas, Quezon City at 14.7070, 121.0963. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route.
Street layout
Within 800 m of the center there are about 110 street intersections per km², and blocks average 87 m long. That is a well-connected street grid, so the score is not reduced.
Walkability across Payatas, Quezon City
- 90+
- 70–89
- 50–69
- 25–49
- 0–24
Each hexagon is the score at a point across the 1.1 km around the center of Payatas, Quezon City. Rings mark 550 m and 1.1 km from the center. Gaps are water or land without streets.
Nearby neighborhoods in Quezon City
| Neighborhood | Distance | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Bagong Silangan | 1.8 km | 68 |
| Batasan Hills | 2.3 km | 82 |
| New Era | 6.2 km | 78 |
| Barangay Pansol | 6.2 km | 70 |
| U.P. Campus | 6.7 km | 83 |
| Loyola Heights | 7.7 km | 86 |
| Krus na Ligas | 7.8 km | 88 |
| Project 6 | 8 km | 91 |
See all 18 neighborhoods of Quezon City ranked by walkability.
Questions about walking in Payatas, Quezon City
Is Payatas walkable?
Yes. Payatas in Quezon City has a walkability score of 71 out of 100 across the 1.1 km around its center, which makes it very walkable: most errands can be done on foot.
Is Payatas more walkable than the rest of Quezon City?
Payatas is less walkable than Quezon City as a whole: it scores 71, against 90 for the 5 km around Quezon City's center. It is the 16th most walkable of the 18 neighborhoods ranked in Quezon City on How Walkable.
What are the most walkable neighborhoods in Quezon City?
Of the 18 Quezon City neighborhoods on How Walkable, the most walkable are Santa Cruz (96), Philam (96) and Tatalon (96).
How is the walkability score of Payatas 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 Payatas it is the average of 61 points spread evenly across the 1.1 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. Places from Overture Maps release 2026-09-23.1. Neighborhood position from Overture Maps, name from Wikidata.
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