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How walkable is Downtown El Paso?
By Oscar Higson-Spence. Updated
Downtown El Paso has a walkability score of 93 out of 100 across the 1 km around its center, which makes it a Walker's Paradise, where daily errands do not require a car. It is the most walkable of the 3 neighborhoods ranked in El Paso, which scores 68 as a whole.
What's within walking distance
756 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the center of Downtown El Paso. The nearest grocery is about 8 minutes away on foot. It earns full or nearly full points for restaurants & bars, shopping, coffee, banks, parks, schools, books & libraries and culture & entertainment.
Groceries
- Ruidoso Market, 13 min
- Barron's Grocery, 13 min
Restaurants & bars
- Juicery Plus, 1 min
- Los Colorines, 1 min
Shopping
- Sunland Park Mall, 2 min
- 915’s Luxury Closet, 2 min
Coffee
- Java Bean, 1 min
- Kaffa128, 2 min
Banks
- Bank of America Financial Center, 1 min
- Bank of America ATM, 1 min
Parks
- Cleveland Square Park, 3 min
- John R. Karr Park, 11 min
Schools
- Socorro High School, 10 min
- Newman Elementary School El Paso Texas, 10 min
Books & libraries
- El Paso City Government Main Library, 2 min
- El Paso County Law Library, 8 min
Culture & entertainment
- Plaza Classic, 2 min
- The Plaza Theatre, 3 min
Measured from the mapped center of Downtown El Paso at 31.7603, -106.4890. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route.
Street layout
Within 800 m of the center there are about 96 street intersections per km², and blocks average 96 m long. That is a well-connected street grid, so the score is not reduced.
Walkability across Downtown El Paso
- 90+
- 70–89
- 50–69
- 25–49
- 0–24
Each hexagon is the score at a point across the 1 km around the center of Downtown El Paso. Rings mark 500 m and 1 km from the center. Gaps are water or land without streets.
Nearby neighborhoods in El Paso
| Neighborhood | Distance | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Kern Place | 2.7 km | 68 |
| Ysleta | 17 km | 52 |
See every neighborhood ranked on the El Paso page.
Questions about walking in Downtown El Paso
Is Downtown El Paso walkable?
Yes. Downtown El Paso has a walkability score of 93 out of 100 across the 1 km around its center, which makes it a Walker's Paradise, where daily errands do not require a car.
Is Downtown El Paso more walkable than the rest of El Paso?
Downtown El Paso is more walkable than El Paso as a whole: it scores 93, against 68 for the 5 km around El Paso's center. It is the most walkable of the 3 neighborhoods ranked in El Paso on How Walkable.
What are the most walkable neighborhoods in El Paso?
Of the 3 El Paso neighborhoods on How Walkable, the most walkable are Downtown El Paso (93), Kern Place (68) and Ysleta (52).
How is the walkability score of Downtown El Paso 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 Downtown El Paso it is the average of 61 points spread evenly across the 1 km around its mapped center, 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. Neighborhood position from Overture Maps, name from Wikidata.
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