--- title: "Is Denver walkable? Walkability score 76/100 · How Walkable" description: "Denver scores 76/100 for walkability (Very Walkable) across its central 5 km: how far it reaches and what's near the center." url: https://howwalkable.com/cities/united-states/denver updated: 2026-10-22 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ --- 1. [Cities](https://howwalkable.com/cities) 2. [United States](https://howwalkable.com/cities/united-states) 3. Denver # How walkable is Denver? By [Oscar Higson-Spence](https://howwalkable.com/about#author). Updated 22 October 2026 Denver has a walkability score of 76 out of 100 across the 5 km around its center, which makes it very walkable: most errands can be done on foot. It is the joint 11th most walkable of the 58 cities ranked in the United States, with 1 other. 76 out of 100: Very Walkable Most errands can be accomplished on foot. * #11 of 58 tied, in the United States * #181 of 690 tied, worldwide * 100 at the center [Open on the map](https://howwalkable.com/?lat=39.74304&lon=-104.98762&q=Denver%2C%20United%20States) ## What's within walking distance of the center 2,336 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of central Denver. The nearest grocery is about 4 minutes away on foot. Every category earns full or nearly full points. ### Groceries 3.0 of 3 points * Cook's Fresh Market, 4 min * IT'SUGAR Denver Pavilions, 5 min * Zak Market, 10 min ### Restaurants & bars 3.0 of 3 points * Pizzeria Colore Express, 1 min * The Delectable Egg-Court, 1 min * Sweetgreen, 1 min ### Shopping 2.0 of 2 points * Apartment Snapshot, 1 min * The Oscar Wallpaper, 1 min * Sprint Store By Verity Wireless, 2 min ### Coffee 2.0 of 2 points * Starbucks, 1 min * Javai Coffee, 2 min * Peets Coffee (16th/Court), 2 min ### Banks 1.0 of 1 point * Key Private Bank - Denver, 1 min * KeyBank, 1 min * Denver Downtown - Market & Region Office, 1 min ### Parks 1.0 of 1 point * Civic Center Park, 5 min * Lincoln Memorial Park, 6 min * Benedict Fountain Park, 10 min ### Schools 1.0 of 1 point * co justice, 3 min * Denver Public Schools, 5 min * Emily Griffith High School, 6 min ### Books & libraries 1.0 of 1 point * Superior Court Library, 4 min * Colorado State Library, 7 min * Capitol Hill Books, 8 min ### Culture & entertainment 1.0 of 1 point * American Museum of Western Art - The Anschutz Collection, 3 min * The Navarre, 3 min * Live At Jack's, 4 min Measured from the center at 39.7430, -104.9876, the point near Denver's middle with the most places in walking range. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route. ## Street layout Within 800 m of the center there are about 99 street intersections per km², and blocks average 94 m long. That is a well-connected street grid, so the score is not reduced. ## How far walkability reaches Denver's score of 76 is the average across the 5 km around its center, the point with the most everyday places within a walk. Walkability averages 96 within 1 km of the center, 80 from 1 to 3 km out and 71 from 3 to 5 km out. 66% of the sampled area scores 70 or more, where most errands can be done on foot. Walkability falls off steeply away from the center, so check a specific address on the map. ![Walkability scores across the 5 km around central Denver, one hexagon per square kilometer. 65% of points score 70 or more; the lowest, 33, is 5 km to the west.](https://howwalkable.com/maps/united-states/denver.svg?v=28a87df53221) Each hexagon is the score at a point, 1 km from its neighbours, across the 5 km around central Denver. Rings mark 1, 3 and 5 km from the center. Gaps are water or land without streets. | Area | Score | Scoring 70+ | Points sampled | | ------------- | ----- | ----------- | -------------- | | Center | 100 | 100% | 1 | | Within 1 km | 96 | 100% | 7 | | 1 to 3 km out | 80 | 79% | 29 | | 3 to 5 km out | 71 | 54% | 52 | ## Nearby cities | City | Distance | Score | | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------- | ----- | | [Colorado Springs, Colorado](https://howwalkable.com/cities/united-states/colorado-springs), United States | 102 km | 52 | | [Albuquerque, New Mexico](https://howwalkable.com/cities/united-states/albuquerque), United States | 539 km | 55 | | [Wichita, Kansas](https://howwalkable.com/cities/united-states/wichita), United States | 702 km | 53 | | [Omaha, Nebraska](https://howwalkable.com/cities/united-states/omaha), United States | 784 km | 54 | ## Questions about walking in Denver ### Is Denver a walkable city? Around its center, yes. Denver has a walkability score of 76 out of 100 across the 5 km around its center, which makes it very walkable: most errands can be done on foot. Its center scores 100. The score covers about 80 km² around the busiest point rather than the whole city, and suburbs further out are usually less walkable, so check a specific address on the map. It ranks joint 11th of 58 cities in the United States and joint 181st of 690 worldwide on How Walkable. ### What is the most walkable city in the United States? New York City is the most walkable of the 58 cities ranked in the United States, with a score of 93. Denver ranks joint 11th with 76. ### How does Denver compare with nearby cities? Denver is more walkable than its nearest ranked neighbours: it scores 76, against Colorado Springs, Colorado (52, 102 km away), Albuquerque, New Mexico (55, 539 km away) and Wichita, Kansas (53, 702 km away). ### Which part of Denver is most walkable? Denver's most walkable area is its center, the point near the middle of the city with the most places in walking range, which scores 100. Walkability averages 96 within 1 km of it. Beyond 2.5 km, it holds up best to the north-west (averaging 82) and falls most to the south-west (65). ### Why is Denver's score different from its Walk Score? Walk Score's city scores average every neighborhood within the city limits, weighted by where people live, so they count outer suburbs that the 5 km around Denver's center leaves out, and they are usually lower. Address by address the two agree closely: across 46 addresses in the United States and Canada, How Walkable's scores were 5.9 points from Walk Score's on average, as the accuracy study at [howwalkable.com/accuracy](https://howwalkable.com/accuracy) shows. ### How is Denver's walkability score calculated? For Denver it is the average of 88 points spaced 1 km apart within 5 km of its busiest point, leaving out water and land without streets; 58 of them score 70 or more. Each point counts groceries, restaurants, shops, cafés, banks, parks, schools, libraries and cultural venues within a 30 minute walk, gives nearer places more weight, and loses up to 20% where streets are sparse or blocks are long, using open map data from Overture Maps (release 2026-09-23.1) 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. City position and population from GeoNames. 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