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How walkable is Chinatown?
By Oscar Higson-SpenceUpdated
Chinatown has a walkability score of 92 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 3rd most walkable of 5 neighbourhoods ranked in Chicago, which scores 85 as a whole.
What's within walking distance
933 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the centre of Chinatown. The nearest grocery is Liang Corp Dba Starlight Market, about a minute away on foot. Every category earns full or nearly full points.
- Grace Grocery Store Inc1 min
- Mayflower Food2 min
- Gao's Kabob Chicago1 min
- Qi Lin Inc1 min
- Yamato Beauty2 min
- Heritage Arts And Frames, LLC2 min
- Bark Lee Tong2 min
- Starbucks3 min
- U.S. Bank ATM2 min
- U.S. Bank2 min
- The Park at NTA6 min
- Sun Yat-Sen Park7 min
- Haines Elementary School3 min
- National Teacher's Academy7 min
- Chinatown Branch4 min
- Chicago Public Library4 min
- Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Museum2 min
- Sakura Karaoke Bar3 min
Measured from the mapped centre of Chinatown at 41.8517, -87.6331. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route.
Street layout
Within 800 m of the centre there are about 68 street intersections per km², and blocks average 107 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 Chinatown
- 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 Chinatown. Rings mark 500 m and 1 km from the centre. Gaps are water or land without streets.
Nearby neighbourhoods in Chicago
| Neighbourhood | Distance | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Chicago Loop | 3.3 km | 98 |
| Magnificent Mile | 4.8 km | 98 |
| Hyde Park | 7.2 km | 85 |
| Lincoln Park | 7.9 km | 90 |
See every neighbourhood ranked on the Chicago page.
Questions about walking in Chinatown
Is Chinatown walkable?
Yes. Chinatown in Chicago has a walkability score of 92 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 Chinatown more walkable than the rest of Chicago?
Chinatown is more walkable than Chicago as a whole: it scores 92, against 85 for the 5 km around Chicago's centre. It ranks 3rd of the 5 Chicago neighbourhoods on How Walkable.
What are the most walkable neighbourhoods in Chicago?
Of the 5 Chicago neighbourhoods on How Walkable, the most walkable are Magnificent Mile (98), Chicago Loop (98) and Chinatown (92).
How is the walkability score of Chinatown 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 Chinatown it is the average of 61 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.
Scores follow a published walkability method, explained in the methodology. Neighbourhood position from Overture Maps, name from Wikidata.