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How walkable is Fox Chase, Philadelphia?
By Oscar Higson-Spence. Updated
Fox Chase has a walkability score of 55 out of 100 across the 1.5 km around its center, which makes it somewhat walkable: some errands can be done on foot. It is the 19th most walkable of the 20 neighborhoods ranked in Philadelphia, which scores 89 as a whole.
What's within walking distance
179 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the center of Fox Chase. The nearest grocery is about 9 minutes away on foot. It earns full or nearly full points for schools. It is weakest for culture & entertainment.
Groceries
- Holiday Shop N Bag, 22 min
- Genuardi’s, 29 min
Restaurants & bars
- Uzbekistan Restaurant, Philadelphia Pa, 6 min
- Sweeney's, 9 min
Shopping
- 7-Eleven, 9 min
- Good Neighbor Pharmacy, 9 min
Coffee
- Dunkin', 12 min
- Dunkin Donuts, 22 min
Banks
- Navy Federal Credit Union, 10 min
- American Heritage Credit Union, 10 min
Parks
- Lions Park, 12 min
- Pennypack Park, 14 min
Schools
- Fox Chase Elementary School, 7 min
- Bridge, 14 min
Books & libraries
- Talbot Research Library, 21 min
Culture & entertainment
- Ryerss Museum and Library, 24 min
Measured from the mapped center of Fox Chase, Philadelphia at 40.0772, -75.0772. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route.
Street layout
Within 800 m of the center there are about 66 street intersections per km², and blocks average 129 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 Fox Chase, 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 Fox Chase, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Frankford | 5.5 km | 79 |
| Holmesburg | 5.9 km | 63 |
| Fern Rock | 6.5 km | 87 |
| Germantown | 9.5 km | 79 |
| Port Richmond | 10.3 km | 86 |
| Chestnut Hill | 11.1 km | 47 |
| Kensington | 11.2 km | 94 |
| Fishtown | 12.4 km | 97 |
See all 20 neighborhoods of Philadelphia ranked by walkability.
Questions about walking in Fox Chase, Philadelphia
Is Fox Chase walkable?
Partly. Fox Chase in Philadelphia has a walkability score of 55 out of 100 across the 1.5 km around its center, which makes it somewhat walkable: some errands can be done on foot.
Is Fox Chase more walkable than the rest of Philadelphia?
Fox Chase is less walkable than Philadelphia as a whole: it scores 55, against 89 for the 5 km around Philadelphia's center. It is the 19th most 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 Fox Chase 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 Fox Chase it is the average of 52 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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