--- title: "Kern Place, El Paso walkability score: 68/100 · How Walkable" description: "Kern Place in El Paso scores 68/100 for walkability (Somewhat Walkable). 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/kern-place 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. Kern Place # How walkable is Kern Place, El Paso? By [Oscar Higson-Spence](https://howwalkable.com/about#author). Updated 22 October 2026 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. 68 out of 100: Somewhat Walkable Some errands can be accomplished on foot. * #2 of 3 in El Paso * 68 El Paso overall * 74 at the center [Open on the map](https://howwalkable.com/?lat=31.78294&lon=-106.49964&q=Kern%20Place%2C%20El%20Paso) ## 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 2.5 of 3 points * Albertsons Pharmacy, 8 min * Albertsons, 8 min ### Restaurants & bars 2.4 of 3 points * ZENSHI Handcrafted Sushi, 8 min * Subway, 8 min * Don Carbón, 9 min ### Shopping 1.6 of 2 points * Your Personal Look, 7 min * Paper Chase, 9 min * Crazy Cat Cyclery, 9 min ### Coffee 1.6 of 2 points * Starbucks, 8 min * The Tea Spout, 10 min * N. Mesa, 11 min ### Banks 0.5 of 1 point * Citizens Bank, 13 min * GECU, 18 min * Wells Fargo Bank, 21 min ### Parks 1.0 of 1 point * Madeline Park, 2 min * Alethea Park, 6 min * Billy Rogers Arroyo, 8 min ### Schools 0.9 of 1 point * Mesita Elementary School, 7 min * El Paso High School, 22 min * First Presbyterian Preschool, 24 min ### Books & libraries 0.0 of 1 point * UTEP Bookstore, 28 min ### Culture & entertainment 0.5 of 1 point * Low Brow El Paso, 13 min * 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 ![Walkability scores across the 550 m around the center of Kern Place. 55% of points score 70 or more; the lowest, 29, is 500 m to the north-east.](https://howwalkable.com/maps/united-states/el-paso/kern-place.svg?v=72d0d1d68fda) 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](https://howwalkable.com/cities/united-states/el-paso/downtown-el-paso) | 2.7 km | 93 | | [Ysleta](https://howwalkable.com/cities/united-states/el-paso/ysleta) | 19 km | 52 | See every neighborhood ranked on the [El Paso page](https://howwalkable.com/cities/united-states/el-paso#neighbourhoods). ## 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](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 Kern Place, 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.