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How walkable is Harborne, Birmingham?
By Oscar Higson-Spence. Updated
Harborne has a walkability score of 82 out of 100 across the 1 km around its centre, which makes it very walkable: most errands can be done on foot. It is the 16th most walkable of the 20 neighbourhoods ranked in Birmingham, which scores 82 as a whole.
What's within walking distance
420 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the centre of Harborne. The nearest grocery is about a minute away on foot. It earns full or nearly full points for groceries, restaurants & bars, shopping, coffee, banks, parks, schools and books & libraries.
Groceries
- Sainsbury's Local, 3 min
- Iceland, 4 min
Restaurants & bars
- WokChi Oriental Kitchen, 1 min
- McDonald's, 1 min
Shopping
- People's Dispensary For Sick Animals, 1 min
- Vision Express, 1 min
Coffee
- Damascena Coffee House, 1 min
- Caffè Nero, 1 min
Banks
- HSBC UK, 1 min
- West Brom Building Society, 1 min
Parks
- Grove Park, 14 min
- Ravenhurst Playing Fields, 19 min
Schools
- Harborne Primary School, 5 min
- The Blue Coat School Birmingham, 7 min
Books & libraries
- Harborne Library, 3 min
- WHSmith, 15 min
Culture & entertainment
- Lapworth Museum of Geology, 26 min
- PQA Edgbaston, 27 min
Measured from the mapped centre of Harborne, Birmingham at 52.4591, -1.9481. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route.
Street layout
Within 800 m of the centre there are about 73 street intersections per km², and blocks average 88 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 Harborne, Birmingham
- 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 Harborne, Birmingham. Rings mark 500 m and 1 km from the centre. Gaps are water or land without streets.
Nearby neighbourhoods in Birmingham
| Neighbourhood | Distance | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Bournbrook | 1.9 km | 85 |
| Edgbaston | 2.2 km | 92 |
| Bearwood | 2.4 km | 83 |
| Ladywood | 2.6 km | 94 |
| Chinese Quarter | 3.9 km | 97 |
| Jewellery Quarter | 4 km | 98 |
| Moseley | 4.2 km | 79 |
| Winson Green | 4.3 km | 86 |
See all 20 neighbourhoods of Birmingham ranked by walkability.
Questions about walking in Harborne, Birmingham
Is Harborne walkable?
Yes. Harborne in Birmingham has a walkability score of 82 out of 100 across the 1 km around its centre, which makes it very walkable: most errands can be done on foot.
Is Harborne more walkable than the rest of Birmingham?
Harborne is about as walkable as Birmingham as a whole: it scores 82, against 82 for the 5 km around Birmingham's centre. It is the 16th most walkable of the 20 neighbourhoods ranked in Birmingham on How Walkable.
What are the most walkable neighbourhoods in Birmingham?
Of the 20 Birmingham neighbourhoods on How Walkable, the most walkable are the Jewellery Quarter (98), the Chinese Quarter (97) and Digbeth (95).
How is the walkability score of Harborne 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 Harborne it is the average of 59 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. 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. Neighbourhood position from Overture Maps, name from Wikidata.
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