How walkable is Busega?
By Oscar Higson-SpenceUpdated
Busega has a walkability score of 20 out of 100 across the 1 km around its centre, which makes it car-dependent: almost all errands require a car. It is the 4th most walkable of 5 neighbourhoods ranked in Kampala, which scores 45 as a whole.
What's within walking distance
31 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the centre of Busega. The nearest grocery is Busega Market, about 9 minutes away on foot. It is weakest for restaurants & bars, banks, parks, schools, books & libraries and culture & entertainment.
- Ugachick Bulenga13 min
- Mocram Interiors Furniture23 min
Measured from the mapped centre of Busega at 0.3093, 32.5190. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route.
Street layout
Within 800 m of the centre there are about 63 street intersections per km², and blocks average 93 m long. Sparser streets or longer blocks reduce the score by 1%, since they make walks longer than the straight-line distance suggests.
Walkability across Busega
- 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 Busega. Rings mark 500 m and 1 km from the centre. Gaps are water or land without streets.
Nearby neighbourhoods in Kampala
| Neighbourhood | Distance | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Katwe | 6.5 km | 46 |
| Kololo | 8.7 km | 61 |
| Ggaba | 13.6 km | 31 |
| Luzira | 15 km | 15 |
See every neighbourhood ranked on the Kampala page.
Questions about walking in Busega
Is Busega walkable?
Not very. Busega in Kampala has a walkability score of 20 out of 100 across the 1 km around its centre, which makes it car-dependent: almost all errands require a car.
Is Busega more walkable than the rest of Kampala?
Busega is less walkable than Kampala as a whole: it scores 20, against 45 for the 5 km around Kampala's centre. It ranks 4th of the 5 Kampala neighbourhoods on How Walkable.
What are the most walkable neighbourhoods in Kampala?
Of the 5 Kampala neighbourhoods on How Walkable, the most walkable are Kololo (61), Katwe (46) and Ggaba (31).
How is the walkability score of Busega 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 Busega it is the average of 53 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.
Scores follow a published walkability method, explained in the methodology. Neighbourhood position from Overture Maps, name from Wikidata.