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How walkable is Soho, London?
By Oscar Higson-Spence. Updated
Soho has a walkability score of 100 out of 100 across the 400 m around its centre, which makes it a Walker's Paradise, where daily errands do not require a car. It is one of 7 neighbourhoods tied as the most walkable of the 20 ranked in London, which scores 98 as a whole.
What's within walking distance
11,687 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the centre of Soho. The nearest grocery is about a minute away on foot. Every category earns full or nearly full points.
Groceries
- Co-op Food, 2 min
- Plaster Store, 2 min
Restaurants & bars
- Miznon, 1 min
- Basement Sate, 1 min
Shopping
- A Day's March, 1 min
- Space NK, 1 min
Coffee
- Cotton Cafe, 1 min
- Matcha& Taiwan, 1 min
Banks
- OakNorth Bank, 3 min
- Lloyds Bank, 3 min
Parks
- St Anne's Churchyard, 4 min
- Golden Square, 5 min
Schools
- Soho Parish School, 4 min
- City Of London Academy, 5 min
Books & libraries
- Gosh Comics, 2 min
- Soho Original Book Shop, 3 min
Culture & entertainment
- Filmhouse, 1 min
- City Screen, 1 min
Measured from the mapped centre of Soho, London at 51.5141, -0.1351. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route.
Street layout
Within 800 m of the centre there are about 263 street intersections per km², and blocks average 59 m long. That is a well-connected street grid, so the score is not reduced.
Walkability across Soho, London
- 90+
- 70–89
- 50–69
- 25–49
- 0–24
Each hexagon is the score at a point across the 400 m around the centre of Soho, London. Rings mark 200 m and 400 m from the centre. Gaps are water or land without streets.
Nearby neighbourhoods in London
| Neighbourhood | Distance | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Bloomsbury | 900 m | 100 |
| Covent Garden | 900 m | 100 |
| Mayfair | 900 m | 99 |
| Marylebone | 1.3 km | 99 |
| Holborn | 1.6 km | 100 |
| Westminster | 1.6 km | 99 |
| South Bank | 1.7 km | 100 |
| Belgravia | 2.2 km | 99 |
See all 20 neighbourhoods of London ranked by walkability.
Questions about walking in Soho, London
Is Soho walkable?
Yes. Soho in London has a walkability score of 100 out of 100 across the 400 m around its centre, which makes it a Walker's Paradise, where daily errands do not require a car.
Is Soho more walkable than the rest of London?
Soho is about as walkable as London as a whole: it scores 100, against 98 for the 5 km around London's centre. It is one of 7 neighbourhoods tied as the most walkable of the 20 ranked in London on How Walkable.
What are the most walkable neighbourhoods in London?
Of the 20 London neighbourhoods on How Walkable, 7 tie as the most walkable, each scoring 100: Soho, Barbican Estate, Bloomsbury and 4 others.
How is the walkability score of Soho 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 Soho it is the average of 61 points spread evenly across the 400 m 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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