--- title: "Ladywood, Birmingham walkability score: 94/100" description: "Ladywood in Birmingham scores 94/100 for walkability (Walker's Paradise): what's within a walk and how it compares with Birmingham." url: https://howwalkable.com/cities/united-kingdom/birmingham/ladywood updated: 2026-10-22 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ --- 1. [Cities](https://howwalkable.com/cities) 2. [United Kingdom](https://howwalkable.com/cities/united-kingdom) 3. [Birmingham](https://howwalkable.com/cities/united-kingdom/birmingham) 4. Ladywood # How walkable is Ladywood, Birmingham? By [Oscar Higson-Spence](https://howwalkable.com/about#author). Updated 22 October 2026 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. 94 out of 100: Walker's Paradise Daily errands do not require a car. * #4 of 20 in Birmingham * 82 Birmingham overall * 97 at the centre [Open on the map](https://howwalkable.com/?lat=52.47749&lon=-1.92337&q=Ladywood%2C%20Birmingham) ## 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 2.9 of 3 points * Costcutter, 6 min * Visual Foods, 10 min * SPAR Brindley Place, 10 min ### Restaurants & bars 2.9 of 3 points * Shaks Fish Bar & Peri Peri, 1 min * Granny's Original Take Away, 1 min * chicken.com Vincent Street, 1 min ### Shopping 2.0 of 2 points * Ladywood Shopping Centre, 1 min * t.e\_convenience, 1 min * Nisa Local, 1 min ### Coffee 2.0 of 2 points * Amir's, 1 min * CaffeChino情浓咖啡, 6 min * Costa Coffee, 6 min ### Banks 1.0 of 1 point * Inner Circle Credit Union, 1 min * Barclays Bank - Birmingham Edgbaston, 10 min * Unity Trust Bank, 10 min ### Parks 1.0 of 1 point * Ryland Street Park, 1 min * Chamberlain Gardens, 5 min * Osler Street Play Area, 9 min ### Schools 1.0 of 1 point * Little Wonders Pre-School, 2 min * CTC Training & Consultancy, 5 min * The Oratory Roman Catholic Primary School, 8 min ### Books & libraries 0.8 of 1 point * Unityuk Training, 9 min * Central Library of Medicine in Vienna, 9 min * Linkuk, 9 min ### Culture & entertainment 1.0 of 1 point * Fail Better, 3 min * 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 ![Walkability scores across the 1 km around the centre of Ladywood. 100% of points score 70 or more; the lowest, 73, is 1 km to the west.](https://howwalkable.com/maps/united-kingdom/birmingham/ladywood.svg?v=c0b838260264) 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](https://howwalkable.com/cities/united-kingdom/birmingham/edgbaston) | 750 m | 92 | | [Jewellery Quarter](https://howwalkable.com/cities/united-kingdom/birmingham/neighbourhoods#jewellery-quarter) | 1.4 km | 98 | | [Chinese Quarter](https://howwalkable.com/cities/united-kingdom/birmingham/neighbourhoods#chinese-quarter) | 1.8 km | 97 | | [Winson Green](https://howwalkable.com/cities/united-kingdom/birmingham/neighbourhoods#winson-green) | 2.4 km | 86 | | [Digbeth](https://howwalkable.com/cities/united-kingdom/birmingham/neighbourhoods#digbeth) | 2.6 km | 95 | | [Harborne](https://howwalkable.com/cities/united-kingdom/birmingham/harborne) | 2.6 km | 82 | | [Newtown](https://howwalkable.com/cities/united-kingdom/birmingham/neighbourhoods#newtown) | 2.9 km | 90 | | [Lozells](https://howwalkable.com/cities/united-kingdom/birmingham/neighbourhoods#lozells) | 3 km | 88 | See [all 20 neighbourhoods of Birmingham ranked by walkability](https://howwalkable.com/cities/united-kingdom/birmingham/neighbourhoods). ## 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](https://howwalkable.com/methodology). Places from Overture Maps release 2026-09-23.1. Neighbourhood position from Overture Maps, name from Wikidata. Ask about walking anywhere in ChatGPT with the [How Walkable app](https://chatgpt.com/plugins/plugin_asdk_app_6accc634bcf8819189c1bcaf0e227f0f), for example "How walkable is Ladywood, Birmingham?" Scores, rankings and text by How Walkable (https://howwalkable.com), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); credit How Walkable and link to this page when reusing them.