--- title: "Downtown El Paso walkability score: 93/100 · How Walkable" description: "Downtown El Paso scores 93/100 for walkability (Walker's Paradise). What's within a walk, its street layout, and how it compares with the rest of El Paso." url: https://howwalkable.com/cities/united-states/el-paso/downtown-el-paso 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. [El Paso](https://howwalkable.com/cities/united-states/el-paso) 4. Downtown El Paso # How walkable is Downtown El Paso? By [Oscar Higson-Spence](https://howwalkable.com/about#author). Updated 22 October 2026 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. 93 out of 100: Walker's Paradise Daily errands do not require a car. * #1 of 3 in El Paso * 68 El Paso overall * 96 at the center [Open on the map](https://howwalkable.com/?lat=31.76026&lon=-106.48901&q=Downtown%20El%20Paso%2C%20El%20Paso) ## 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 2.5 of 3 points * Red Line Performance, 8 min * Ruidoso Market, 13 min * Barron's Grocery, 13 min ### Restaurants & bars 3.0 of 3 points * The Green Ingredient, 1 min * Juicery Plus, 1 min * Los Colorines, 1 min ### Shopping 2.0 of 2 points * Chihuahuas Team Shop, 2 min * Sunland Park Mall, 2 min * 915’s Luxury Closet, 2 min ### Coffee 2.0 of 2 points * Coffee Box, 1 min * Java Bean, 1 min * Kaffa128, 2 min ### Banks 1.0 of 1 point * Sunflower Bank, 1 min * Bank of America Financial Center, 1 min * Bank of America ATM, 1 min ### Parks 1.0 of 1 point * San Jacinto Plaza, 1 min * Cleveland Square Park, 3 min * John R. Karr Park, 11 min ### Schools 0.9 of 1 point * Triumph Public High School, 6 min * Socorro High School, 10 min * Newman Elementary School El Paso Texas, 10 min ### Books & libraries 1.0 of 1 point * El Paso Public Library, 2 min * El Paso City Government Main Library, 2 min * El Paso County Law Library, 8 min ### Culture & entertainment 1.0 of 1 point * Broadway in El Paso, 2 min * 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 ![Walkability scores across the 1 km around the center of Downtown El Paso. 100% of points score 70 or more; the lowest, 78, is 900 m to the west.](https://howwalkable.com/maps/united-states/el-paso/downtown-el-paso.svg?v=2cfa0ead051b) 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](https://howwalkable.com/cities/united-states/el-paso/kern-place) | 2.7 km | 68 | | [Ysleta](https://howwalkable.com/cities/united-states/el-paso/ysleta) | 17 km | 52 | See every neighborhood ranked on the [El Paso page](https://howwalkable.com/cities/united-states/el-paso#neighbourhoods). ## 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](https://howwalkable.com/methodology). Places from Overture Maps release 2026-09-23.1. Neighborhood 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 Downtown El Paso?" 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.