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How walkable is Arts District?

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Arts District has a walkability score of 99 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 the most walkable of 5 neighbourhoods ranked in Dallas, which scores 75 as a whole.

99 out of 100: Walker's Paradise
Daily errands do not require a car.
#1 of 5
in Dallas
75
Dallas overall
100
at the centre
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What's within walking distance

2,006 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the centre of Arts District. The nearest grocery is Royal Blue Grocery, about 2 minutes away on foot. Every category earns full or nearly full points.

Groceries
Royal Blue Grocery
2min3.0 of 3 points
  • Berkley's Market2 min
  • Lm Beverage Inc6 min
Restaurants & bars
Pizza Leila - Downtown
1min3.0 of 3 points
  • Enticed1 min
  • Uno Chicago Grill1 min
Shopping
AlphaOne Robotics
1min2.0 of 2 points
  • Hubert Crouch2 min
  • Arts District Flower Market2 min
Coffee
Starbucks
1min2.0 of 2 points
  • Nasher Cafe by Wolfgang Puck1 min
  • Zero Gradi Dallas3 min
Banks
Bank Of Tokyo-mitsubishi Ufj
1min1.0 of 1 point
  • Goldman Sachs1 min
  • PlainsCapital Bank Personal Teller Machine3 min
Parks
Betty Marcus Park
2min1.0 of 1 point
  • Unnamed park3 min
  • Klyde Warren Park4 min
Schools
Developmental Learning Center at FUMC
4min1.0 of 1 point
  • Primrose School at Klyde Warren Park6 min
  • Pegasus Charter H S7 min
Books & libraries
Truett Memorial Library
6min0.9 of 1 point
  • The Taschen Library14 min
  • The Helping Friendly Little Free Library16 min
Culture & entertainment
Crow Museum of Asian Art
1min1.0 of 1 point
  • Attpac3 min
  • Dallas Symphony Orchestra3 min

Measured from the mapped centre of Arts District at 32.7883, -96.7994. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route.

Street layout

Within 800 m of the centre there are about 136 street intersections per km², and blocks average 81 m long. That is a well-connected street grid, so the score is not reduced.

Walkability across Arts District

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  • 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 Arts District. Rings mark 200 m and 400 m from the centre. Gaps are water or land without streets.

Nearby neighbourhoods in Dallas

NeighbourhoodDistanceScore
Downtown950 m96
West End Historic District1.2 km96
Deep Ellum1.8 km93
Lakewood6.2 km44

See every neighbourhood ranked on the Dallas page.

Questions about walking in Arts District

Is Arts District walkable?

Yes. Arts District in Dallas has a walkability score of 99 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 Arts District more walkable than the rest of Dallas?

Arts District is more walkable than Dallas as a whole: it scores 99, against 75 for the 5 km around Dallas's centre. It ranks 1st of the 5 Dallas neighbourhoods on How Walkable.

What are the most walkable neighbourhoods in Dallas?

Of the 5 Dallas neighbourhoods on How Walkable, the most walkable are Arts District (99), West End Historic District (96) and Downtown (96).

How is the walkability score of Arts District 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 Arts District 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.

Scores follow a published walkability method, explained in the methodology. Neighbourhood position from Overture Maps, name from Wikidata.