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How walkable is Houston Heights?
By Oscar Higson-SpenceUpdated
Houston Heights has a walkability score of 81 out of 100 across the 2 km around its centre, which makes it very walkable: most errands can be done on foot. It is the 4th most walkable of 5 neighbourhoods ranked in Houston, which scores 79 as a whole.
What's within walking distance
626 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the centre of Houston Heights. The nearest grocery is Sunny Food Store, about 3 minutes away on foot. It earns full or nearly full points for groceries, restaurants & bars, shopping, schools and books & libraries.
- Solomon's Portico House Of Prayer12 min
- City Treasure's Marketplace13 min
- Pizza Hut2 min
- Savoir3 min
- The Wilde Collection1 min
- Incanto1 min
- Bluestone Lane Houston Heights11 min
- Boomtown Coffee11 min
- PNC Bank10 min
- Comerica Bank14 min
- Milroy Park9 min
- Heights Boulevard Park13 min
- The Journey School of Houston7 min
- Grace Weekday School8 min
- Once Upon A Comic World9 min
- Good on Paper11 min
- Historic Lambert Hall7 min
- The Houston Saengerbund8 min
Measured from the mapped centre of Houston Heights at 29.7977, -95.3984. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route.
Street layout
Within 800 m of the centre there are about 64 street intersections per km², and blocks average 123 m long. Sparser streets or longer blocks reduce the score by 2%, since they make walks longer than the straight-line distance suggests.
Walkability across Houston Heights
- 90+
- 70–89
- 50–69
- 25–49
- 0–24
Each hexagon is the score at a point across the 2 km around the centre of Houston Heights. Rings mark 1 km and 2 km from the centre. Gaps are water or land without streets.
Nearby neighbourhoods in Houston
| Neighbourhood | Distance | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Midtown | 6.6 km | 90 |
| Houston Museum District | 8.2 km | 92 |
| Uptown Houston | 8.4 km | 89 |
| Texas Medical Center | 9.8 km | 74 |
See every neighbourhood ranked on the Houston page.
Questions about walking in Houston Heights
Is Houston Heights walkable?
Yes. Houston Heights in Houston has a walkability score of 81 out of 100 across the 2 km around its centre, which makes it very walkable: most errands can be done on foot.
Is Houston Heights more walkable than the rest of Houston?
Houston Heights is about as walkable as Houston as a whole: it scores 81, against 79 for the 5 km around Houston's centre. It ranks 4th of the 5 Houston neighbourhoods on How Walkable.
What are the most walkable neighbourhoods in Houston?
Of the 5 Houston neighbourhoods on How Walkable, the most walkable are Houston Museum District (92), Midtown (90) and Uptown Houston (89).
How is the walkability score of Houston Heights 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 Houston Heights it is the average of 61 points spread evenly across the 2 km around its mapped centre, leaving out water and land without streets, using open map data from Overture Maps and OpenStreetMap.
Scores follow a published walkability method, explained in the methodology. Neighbourhood position from Overture Maps, name from Wikidata.