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How walkable is Watts, Los Angeles?
By Oscar Higson-Spence. Updated
Watts has a walkability score of 70 out of 100 across the 1.3 km around its center, which makes it very walkable: most errands can be done on foot. It is the 18th most walkable of the 20 neighborhoods ranked in Los Angeles, which scores 82 as a whole.
What's within walking distance
242 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the center of Watts. The nearest grocery is about 8 minutes away on foot. It earns full or nearly full points for restaurants & bars, parks and schools. It is weakest for coffee and culture & entertainment.
Groceries
- Food 4 Less, 8 min
- Tala's Market, 16 min
Restaurants & bars
- Tamales Naborina, 6 min
- Burger King, 6 min
Shopping
- RadioShack, 8 min
- J Collections, 8 min
Coffee
- Starbucks, 25 min
Banks
- Chase Bank, 8 min
- Bank Of America, 18 min
Parks
- Watts Towers Cultural Crescent, 1 min
- Watts Towers Arts Center, 2 min
Schools
- Markham Middle School, 4 min
- College Bridge Academy, 7 min
Books & libraries
- Los Angeles City Library Watts Br, 10 min
- warzone comics, 23 min
Culture & entertainment
- Edwards Cine Imax Sout Gate, 22 min
- El Farallon Restaurant and Event Center, 28 min
Measured from the mapped center of Watts, Los Angeles at 33.9406, -118.2429. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route.
Street layout
Within 800 m of the center there are about 67 street intersections per km², and blocks average 110 m long. Sparser streets or longer blocks reduce the score by 1%, since they make walks longer than the straight-line distance suggests.
Walkability across Watts, Los Angeles
- 90+
- 70–89
- 50–69
- 25–49
- 0–24
Each hexagon is the score at a point across the 1.3 km around the center of Watts, Los Angeles. Rings mark 650 m and 1.3 km from the center. Gaps are water or land without streets.
Nearby neighborhoods in Los Angeles
| Neighborhood | Distance | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Skid Row | 11.5 km | 93 |
| Boyle Heights | 11.9 km | 82 |
| Downtown Los Angeles | 12 km | 95 |
| Little Tokyo | 12 km | 97 |
| Chinatown | 13.7 km | 87 |
| West Adams | 14.1 km | 83 |
| Angelino Heights | 14.5 km | 87 |
| Koreatown | 14.7 km | 90 |
See all 20 neighborhoods of Los Angeles ranked by walkability.
Questions about walking in Watts, Los Angeles
Is Watts walkable?
Yes. Watts in Los Angeles has a walkability score of 70 out of 100 across the 1.3 km around its center, which makes it very walkable: most errands can be done on foot.
Is Watts more walkable than the rest of Los Angeles?
Watts is less walkable than Los Angeles as a whole: it scores 70, against 82 for the 5 km around Los Angeles's center. It is the 18th most walkable of the 20 neighborhoods ranked in Los Angeles on How Walkable.
What are the most walkable neighborhoods in Los Angeles?
Of the 20 Los Angeles neighborhoods on How Walkable, the most walkable are Little Tokyo (97), Downtown Los Angeles (95) and Skid Row (93).
How is the walkability score of Watts 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 Watts it is the average of 61 points spread evenly across the 1.3 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. Places from Overture Maps release 2026-09-23.1. Neighborhood position from Overture Maps, name from Wikidata.
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