How walkable is Luzira?
By Oscar Higson-SpenceUpdated
Luzira has a walkability score of 15 out of 100 across the 1 km around its centre, which makes it car-dependent: almost all errands require a car. It is the 5th most walkable of 5 neighbourhoods ranked in Kampala, which scores 45 as a whole.
What's within walking distance
10 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the centre of Luzira. There is no grocery store within a 30 minute walk. It earns full or nearly full points for schools. It is weakest for groceries, restaurants & bars, shopping, banks, parks, books & libraries and culture & entertainment.
- Uganda Breweries Limited10 min
- Admatha K9 Protective Services16 min
- Bonjour16 min
Measured from the mapped centre of Luzira at 0.2975, 32.6528. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route.
Street layout
Within 800 m of the centre there are about 29 street intersections per km², and blocks average 147 m long. Sparser streets or longer blocks reduce the score by 5%, since they make walks longer than the straight-line distance suggests.
Walkability across Luzira
- 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 Luzira. Rings mark 500 m and 1 km from the centre. Gaps are water or land without streets.
Nearby neighbourhoods in Kampala
| Neighbourhood | Distance | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Ggaba | 4.6 km | 31 |
| Kololo | 7.8 km | 61 |
| Katwe | 8.6 km | 46 |
| Busega | 15 km | 20 |
See every neighbourhood ranked on the Kampala page.
Questions about walking in Luzira
Is Luzira walkable?
Not very. Luzira in Kampala has a walkability score of 15 out of 100 across the 1 km around its centre, which makes it car-dependent: almost all errands require a car.
Is Luzira more walkable than the rest of Kampala?
Luzira is less walkable than Kampala as a whole: it scores 15, against 45 for the 5 km around Kampala's centre. It ranks 5th 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 Luzira 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 Luzira it is the average of 50 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.