--- title: "Soho, London walkability score: 100/100 · How Walkable" description: "Soho in London scores 100/100 for walkability (Walker's Paradise). What's within a walk, its street layout, and how it compares with the rest of London." url: https://howwalkable.com/cities/united-kingdom/london/soho 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. [London](https://howwalkable.com/cities/united-kingdom/london) 4. Soho # How walkable is Soho, London? By [Oscar Higson-Spence](https://howwalkable.com/about#author). Updated 22 October 2026 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. 100 out of 100: Walker's Paradise Daily errands do not require a car. * #1 of 20 tied, in London * 98 London overall * 100 at the centre [Open on the map](https://howwalkable.com/?lat=51.51407&lon=-0.13505&q=Soho%2C%20London) ## 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 3.0 of 3 points * Berwick Street Market, 1 min * Co-op Food, 2 min * Plaster Store, 2 min ### Restaurants & bars 3.0 of 3 points * Namaiki, 1 min * Miznon, 1 min * Basement Sate, 1 min ### Shopping 2.0 of 2 points * Falke UK, 1 min * A Day's March, 1 min * Space NK, 1 min ### Coffee 2.0 of 2 points * Pret A Manger, 1 min * Cotton Cafe, 1 min * Matcha& Taiwan, 1 min ### Banks 1.0 of 1 point * Koyo, 2 min * OakNorth Bank, 3 min * Lloyds Bank, 3 min ### Parks 1.0 of 1 point * Soho Square Gardens, 3 min * St Anne's Churchyard, 4 min * Golden Square, 5 min ### Schools 1.0 of 1 point * LEYF - Soho Nursery & Pre-School, 4 min * Soho Parish School, 4 min * City Of London Academy, 5 min ### Books & libraries 1.0 of 1 point * Octopus Publishing Group Library, 2 min * Gosh Comics, 2 min * Soho Original Book Shop, 3 min ### Culture & entertainment 1.0 of 1 point * St Moritz Club, 1 min * 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 ![Walkability scores across the 400 m around the centre of Soho. Every point scores 100.](https://howwalkable.com/maps/united-kingdom/london/soho.svg?v=5bab77e7fe25) 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](https://howwalkable.com/cities/united-kingdom/london/neighbourhoods#bloomsbury) | 900 m | 100 | | [Covent Garden](https://howwalkable.com/cities/united-kingdom/london/covent-garden) | 900 m | 100 | | [Mayfair](https://howwalkable.com/cities/united-kingdom/london/mayfair) | 900 m | 99 | | [Marylebone](https://howwalkable.com/cities/united-kingdom/london/neighbourhoods#marylebone) | 1.3 km | 99 | | [Holborn](https://howwalkable.com/cities/united-kingdom/london/neighbourhoods#holborn) | 1.6 km | 100 | | [Westminster](https://howwalkable.com/cities/united-kingdom/london/westminster) | 1.6 km | 99 | | [South Bank](https://howwalkable.com/cities/united-kingdom/london/neighbourhoods#south-bank) | 1.7 km | 100 | | [Belgravia](https://howwalkable.com/cities/united-kingdom/london/neighbourhoods#belgravia) | 2.2 km | 99 | See [all 20 neighbourhoods of London ranked by walkability](https://howwalkable.com/cities/united-kingdom/london/neighbourhoods). ## 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](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 Soho, London?" 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.