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How walkable is Ladywood, Birmingham?
By Oscar Higson-Spence. Updated
Ladywood has a walkability score of 94 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 4th most walkable of the 20 neighbourhoods ranked in Birmingham, which scores 82 as a whole.
What's within walking distance
2,198 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the centre of Ladywood. The nearest grocery is about 6 minutes away on foot. It earns full or nearly full points for groceries, restaurants & bars, shopping, coffee, banks, parks, schools and culture & entertainment.
Groceries
- Visual Foods, 10 min
- SPAR Brindley Place, 10 min
Restaurants & bars
- Granny's Original Take Away, 1 min
- chicken.com Vincent Street, 1 min
Shopping
- t.e_convenience, 1 min
- Nisa Local, 1 min
Coffee
- CaffeChino情浓咖啡, 6 min
- Costa Coffee, 6 min
Banks
- Barclays Bank - Birmingham Edgbaston, 10 min
- Unity Trust Bank, 10 min
Parks
- Chamberlain Gardens, 5 min
- Osler Street Play Area, 9 min
Schools
- CTC Training & Consultancy, 5 min
- The Oratory Roman Catholic Primary School, 8 min
Books & libraries
- Central Library of Medicine in Vienna, 9 min
- Linkuk, 9 min
Culture & entertainment
- Primary Theatre Company, 4 min
- Bournville Musical Theatre Company, 7 min
Measured from the mapped centre of Ladywood, Birmingham at 52.4775, -1.9234. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route.
Street layout
Within 800 m of the centre there are about 146 street intersections per km², and blocks average 66 m long. That is a well-connected street grid, so the score is not reduced.
Walkability across Ladywood, 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 Ladywood, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Edgbaston | 750 m | 92 |
| Jewellery Quarter | 1.4 km | 98 |
| Chinese Quarter | 1.8 km | 97 |
| Winson Green | 2.4 km | 86 |
| Digbeth | 2.6 km | 95 |
| Harborne | 2.6 km | 82 |
| Newtown | 2.9 km | 90 |
| Lozells | 3 km | 88 |
See all 20 neighbourhoods of Birmingham ranked by walkability.
Questions about walking in Ladywood, Birmingham
Is Ladywood walkable?
Yes. Ladywood in Birmingham has a walkability score of 94 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 Ladywood more walkable than the rest of Birmingham?
Ladywood is more walkable than Birmingham as a whole: it scores 94, against 82 for the 5 km around Birmingham's centre. It is the 4th 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 Ladywood 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 Ladywood it is the average of 60 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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