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How walkable is Edgbaston?
By Oscar Higson-SpenceUpdated
Edgbaston has a walkability score of 92 out of 100 across the 1 km around its centre, which makes it a Walker's Paradise, where daily errands do not require a car. It is the most walkable of 5 neighbourhoods ranked in Birmingham, which scores 82 as a whole.
What's within walking distance
1,477 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the centre of Edgbaston. The nearest grocery is Morrisons Cafe, about 2 minutes away on foot. It earns full or nearly full points for groceries, restaurants & bars, shopping, coffee, banks, schools, books & libraries and culture & entertainment.
- Visual Foods3 min
- Fusion5 min
- Village Kitchen1 min
- Loki Wine Edgbaston1 min
- VoIPLine Telecom1 min
- Maison Prestige1 min
- Hudson & Mortimers1 min
- Starbucks2 min
- Barclays Bank - Birmingham Edgbaston2 min
- NatWest3 min
- Ryland Street Park8 min
- Five Ways Community Park9 min
- Hopwood Hall School3 min
- Crescent Day Nursery In Birmingham4 min
- Philadlephia University Jordan4 min
- Central Library of Medicine in Vienna4 min
- Odeon5 min
- West Midlands Circus Centre & RoguePlay Theatre8 min
Measured from the mapped centre of Edgbaston at 52.4710, -1.9226. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route.
Street layout
Within 800 m of the centre there are about 111 street intersections per km², and blocks average 71 m long. That is a well-connected street grid, so the score is not reduced.
Walkability across Edgbaston
- 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 Edgbaston. Rings mark 500 m and 1 km from the centre. Gaps are water or land without streets.
Nearby neighbourhoods in Birmingham
| Neighbourhood | Distance | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Selly Oak | 3.6 km | 87 |
| Aston | 4.9 km | 87 |
| Kings Norton | 7.1 km | 79 |
| Erdington | 8.1 km | 88 |
See every neighbourhood ranked on the Birmingham page.
Questions about walking in Edgbaston
Is Edgbaston walkable?
Yes. Edgbaston in Birmingham has a walkability score of 92 out of 100 across the 1 km around its centre, which makes it a Walker's Paradise, where daily errands do not require a car.
Is Edgbaston more walkable than the rest of Birmingham?
Edgbaston is more walkable than Birmingham as a whole: it scores 92, against 82 for the 5 km around Birmingham's centre. It ranks 1st of the 5 Birmingham neighbourhoods on How Walkable.
What are the most walkable neighbourhoods in Birmingham?
Of the 5 Birmingham neighbourhoods on How Walkable, the most walkable are Edgbaston (92), Erdington (88) and Selly Oak (87).
How is the walkability score of Edgbaston 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 Edgbaston it is the average of 56 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.