--- title: "Arcadia, Phoenix walkability score: 32/100 · How Walkable" description: "Arcadia in Phoenix scores 32/100 for walkability (Car-Dependent). What's within a walk, its street layout, and how it compares with the rest of Phoenix." url: https://howwalkable.com/cities/united-states/phoenix/arcadia updated: 2026-10-22 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ --- 1. [Cities](https://howwalkable.com/cities) 2. [United States](https://howwalkable.com/cities/united-states) 3. [Phoenix](https://howwalkable.com/cities/united-states/phoenix) 4. Arcadia # How walkable is Arcadia, Phoenix? By [Oscar Higson-Spence](https://howwalkable.com/about#author). Updated 22 October 2026 Arcadia has a walkability score of 32 out of 100 across the 1.4 km around its center, which makes it car-dependent: most errands require a car. It is the least walkable of the 4 neighborhoods ranked in Phoenix, which scores 56 as a whole. 32 out of 100: Car-Dependent Most errands require a car. * #4 of 4 in Phoenix * 56 Phoenix overall * 34 at the center [Open on the map](https://howwalkable.com/?lat=33.49453&lon=-111.96080&q=Arcadia%2C%20Phoenix) ## What's within walking distance 47 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the center of Arcadia. The nearest grocery is about 14 minutes away on foot. It earns full or nearly full points for schools. It is weakest for shopping, coffee, banks, books & libraries and culture & entertainment. ### Groceries 1.4 of 3 points * Zoyo Neighborhood Yogurt, 14 min ### Restaurants & bars 1.4 of 3 points * Sarpino's Pizzeria, 4 min * Kitchen 56, 13 min * 56th St Deli & Market, 14 min ### Shopping 0.1 of 2 points * Backchecked, 20 min * Scottsdale Airpark, 24 min * Page Petal, 26 min ### Coffee 0.6 of 2 points * Starbucks, 14 min ### Banks 0.0 of 1 point * None within a 30 minute walk ### Parks 0.7 of 1 point * G.R. Herberger Park, 10 min * Arcadia Park, 13 min * Jokake Grounds, 28 min ### Schools 1.0 of 1 point * Early Education Cooperative Preschool, 5 min * Prince of Peace Preschool, 10 min * Ingleside Middle School, 16 min ### Books & libraries 0.0 of 1 point * None within a 30 minute walk ### Culture & entertainment 0.1 of 1 point * Detour Company Theater, 25 min Measured from the mapped center of Arcadia, Phoenix at 33.4945, -111.9608. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route. ## Street layout Within 800 m of the center there are about 40 street intersections per km², and blocks average 137 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 Arcadia, Phoenix ![Walkability scores across the 1.4 km around the center of Arcadia. 1% of points score 70 or more; the lowest, 13, is 1 km to the north.](https://howwalkable.com/maps/united-states/phoenix/arcadia.svg?v=3e89fc3ec9b7) Each hexagon is the score at a point across the 1.4 km around the center of Arcadia, Phoenix. Rings mark 700 m and 1.4 km from the center. Gaps are water or land without streets. ## Nearby neighborhoods in Phoenix | Neighborhood | Distance | Score | | ------------------------------------------------------------------ | -------- | ----- | | [Willo](https://howwalkable.com/cities/united-states/phoenix/willo) | 11.3 km | 63 | | [Downtown Phoenix](https://howwalkable.com/cities/united-states/phoenix/downtown-phoenix) | 11.8 km | 91 | | [South Phoenix](https://howwalkable.com/cities/united-states/phoenix/south-phoenix) | 14.3 km | 54 | See every neighborhood ranked on the [Phoenix page](https://howwalkable.com/cities/united-states/phoenix#neighbourhoods). ## Questions about walking in Arcadia, Phoenix ### Is Arcadia walkable? Not very. Arcadia in Phoenix has a walkability score of 32 out of 100 across the 1.4 km around its center, which makes it car-dependent: most errands require a car. ### Is Arcadia more walkable than the rest of Phoenix? Arcadia is less walkable than Phoenix as a whole: it scores 32, against 56 for the 5 km around Phoenix's center. It is the least walkable of the 4 neighborhoods ranked in Phoenix on How Walkable. ### What are the most walkable neighborhoods in Phoenix? Of the 4 Phoenix neighborhoods on How Walkable, the most walkable are Downtown Phoenix (91), Willo (63) and South Phoenix (54). ### How is the walkability score of Arcadia 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 Arcadia it is the average of 59 points spread evenly across the 1.4 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](https://howwalkable.com/methodology). Places from Overture Maps release 2026-09-23.1. Neighborhood position from Overture Maps, name from Wikidata. Ask about walking anywhere in ChatGPT with the [How Walkable app](https://chatgpt.com/plugins/plugin_asdk_app_6accc634bcf8819189c1bcaf0e227f0f), for example "How walkable is Arcadia, Phoenix?" Scores, rankings and text by How Walkable (https://howwalkable.com), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); credit How Walkable and link to this page when reusing them.