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How walkable is Kern Place, El Paso?
By Oscar Higson-Spence. Updated
Kern Place has a walkability score of 68 out of 100 across the 550 m around its center, which makes it somewhat walkable: some errands can be done on foot. It is the 2nd most walkable of the 3 neighborhoods ranked in El Paso, which scores 68 as a whole.
What's within walking distance
327 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the center of Kern Place. The nearest grocery is about 8 minutes away on foot. It earns full or nearly full points for parks and schools. It is weakest for books & libraries.
Groceries
- Albertsons, 8 min
Restaurants & bars
- Subway, 8 min
- Don Carbón, 9 min
Shopping
- Paper Chase, 9 min
- Crazy Cat Cyclery, 9 min
Coffee
- The Tea Spout, 10 min
- N. Mesa, 11 min
Banks
- GECU, 18 min
- Wells Fargo Bank, 21 min
Parks
- Alethea Park, 6 min
- Billy Rogers Arroyo, 8 min
Schools
- El Paso High School, 22 min
- First Presbyterian Preschool, 24 min
Books & libraries
Culture & entertainment
- Don Haskins Center, 13 min
- The Lowbrow Palace, 14 min
Measured from the mapped center of Kern Place, El Paso at 31.7829, -106.4996. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route.
Street layout
Within 800 m of the center there are about 91 street intersections per km², and blocks average 86 m long. That is a well-connected street grid, so the score is not reduced.
Walkability across Kern Place, El Paso
- 90+
- 70–89
- 50–69
- 25–49
- 0–24
Each hexagon is the score at a point across the 550 m around the center of Kern Place, El Paso. Rings mark 300 m and 550 m from the center. Gaps are water or land without streets.
Nearby neighborhoods in El Paso
| Neighborhood | Distance | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Downtown El Paso | 2.7 km | 93 |
| Ysleta | 19 km | 52 |
See every neighborhood ranked on the El Paso page.
Questions about walking in Kern Place, El Paso
Is Kern Place walkable?
Partly. Kern Place in El Paso has a walkability score of 68 out of 100 across the 550 m around its center, which makes it somewhat walkable: some errands can be done on foot.
Is Kern Place more walkable than the rest of El Paso?
Kern Place is about as walkable as El Paso as a whole: it scores 68, against 68 for the 5 km around El Paso's center. It is the 2nd 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 Kern Place 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 Kern Place it is the average of 61 points spread evenly across the 550 m 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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