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How walkable is Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia?
By Oscar Higson-Spence. Updated
Chestnut Hill has a walkability score of 47 out of 100 across the 1.5 km around its center, which makes it car-dependent: most errands require a car. It is the least walkable of the 20 neighborhoods ranked in Philadelphia, which scores 89 as a whole.
What's within walking distance
254 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the center of Chestnut Hill. The nearest grocery is about 2 minutes away on foot. It earns full or nearly full points for groceries, restaurants & bars, shopping, coffee, banks, schools and books & libraries.
Groceries
- Weavers Way Co-op, 5 min
- Chestnut Hill Farmers Market, 10 min
Restaurants & bars
- Cuba! Restaurant, 1 min
- Sagami Phila, 1 min
Shopping
- Bijoux Fine Jewelry, 1 min
- The Paperia, 2 min
Coffee
- Starbucks, 2 min
- Matines Café, 3 min
Banks
- Bank Of America, 1 min
- Citizens Chestnut Hill, 1 min
Parks
- Water Tower Recreation Center, 9 min
- Pastorius Park, 11 min
Schools
- Children Of America Chestnut Hill, 2 min
- Our Mother of Consolation School, 7 min
Books & libraries
- 50 Watts Books, 3 min
- Chestnut Hill Library, 4 min
Culture & entertainment
- Venue_8030, 17 min
- Scene-N-Action Productions Company, 19 min
Measured from the mapped center of Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia at 40.0771, -75.2074. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route.
Street layout
Within 800 m of the center there are about 42 street intersections per km², and blocks average 149 m long. Sparser streets or longer blocks reduce the score by 4%, since they make walks longer than the straight-line distance suggests.
Walkability across Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia
- 90+
- 70–89
- 50–69
- 25–49
- 0–24
Each hexagon is the score at a point across the 1.5 km around the center of Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia. Rings mark 750 m and 1.5 km from the center. Gaps are water or land without streets.
Nearby neighborhoods in Philadelphia
| Neighborhood | Distance | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Germantown | 5.4 km | 79 |
| Manayunk | 5.5 km | 85 |
| Wissahickon | 6.5 km | 78 |
| Fern Rock | 6.9 km | 87 |
| Fox Chase | 11.1 km | 55 |
| Overbrook | 11.4 km | 63 |
| Frankford | 11.8 km | 79 |
| Fairmount | 11.9 km | 92 |
See all 20 neighborhoods of Philadelphia ranked by walkability.
Questions about walking in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia
Is Chestnut Hill walkable?
Not very. Chestnut Hill in Philadelphia has a walkability score of 47 out of 100 across the 1.5 km around its center, which makes it car-dependent: most errands require a car.
Is Chestnut Hill more walkable than the rest of Philadelphia?
Chestnut Hill is less walkable than Philadelphia as a whole: it scores 47, against 89 for the 5 km around Philadelphia's center. It is the least walkable of the 20 neighborhoods ranked in Philadelphia on How Walkable.
What are the most walkable neighborhoods in Philadelphia?
Of the 20 Philadelphia neighborhoods on How Walkable, the most walkable are Chinatown (99), Center City (99), Society Hill (98) and the Old City (98).
How is the walkability score of Chestnut Hill 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 Chestnut Hill it is the average of 57 points spread evenly across the 1.5 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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