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How walkable is Koreatown?
By Oscar Higson-SpenceUpdated
Koreatown has a walkability score of 90 out of 100 across the 1.5 km around its centre, which makes it a Walker's Paradise, where daily errands do not require a car. It is the 4th most walkable of 5 neighbourhoods ranked in Los Angeles, which scores 82 as a whole.
What's within walking distance
1,524 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the centre of Koreatown. The nearest grocery is Calculi, about a minute away on foot. Every category earns full or nearly full points.
- Ralphs6 min
- Sixtern Kim's Mart7 min
- Simply Salad1 min
- Yasik Time1 min
- Party Characters for Kids2 min
- Kst Data Inc2 min
- Starbucks2 min
- Serrano Cafe2 min
- Fifth Third Bank1 min
- Hanmi Bank1 min
- Robert F. Kennedy Inspiration Park13 min
- Seoul International Park17 min
- Brawerman Elementary School2 min
- Wilshire Smiling Tree Preschool3 min
- Aladdin Books LA7 min
- The Korean Book Center15 min
- Feel Karaoke4 min
- Korean American National Museum5 min
Measured from the mapped centre of Koreatown at 34.0618, -118.3054. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route.
Street layout
Within 800 m of the centre there are about 57 street intersections per km², and blocks average 128 m long. Sparser streets or longer blocks reduce the score by 3%, since they make walks longer than the straight-line distance suggests.
Walkability across Koreatown
- 90+
- 70–89
- 50–69
- 25–49
- 0–24
Each hexagon is the score at a point across the 1.5 km around the centre of Koreatown. Rings mark 750 m and 1.5 km from the centre. Gaps are water or land without streets.
Nearby neighbourhoods in Los Angeles
| Neighbourhood | Distance | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Downtown Los Angeles | 5.2 km | 95 |
| Skid Row | 6 km | 93 |
| Little Tokyo | 6.2 km | 97 |
| Chinatown | 6.4 km | 87 |
See every neighbourhood ranked on the Los Angeles page.
Questions about walking in Koreatown
Is Koreatown walkable?
Yes. Koreatown in Los Angeles has a walkability score of 90 out of 100 across the 1.5 km around its centre, which makes it a Walker's Paradise, where daily errands do not require a car.
Is Koreatown more walkable than the rest of Los Angeles?
Koreatown is more walkable than Los Angeles as a whole: it scores 90, against 82 for the 5 km around Los Angeles's centre. It ranks 4th of the 5 Los Angeles neighbourhoods on How Walkable.
What are the most walkable neighbourhoods in Los Angeles?
Of the 5 Los Angeles neighbourhoods on How Walkable, the most walkable are Little Tokyo (97), Downtown Los Angeles (95) and Skid Row (93).
How is the walkability score of Koreatown 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 Koreatown it is the average of 61 points spread evenly across the 1.5 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.