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How walkable is Willo?

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Willo has a walkability score of 63 out of 100 across the 550 m around its centre, which makes it somewhat walkable: some errands can be done on foot. It is the 2nd most walkable of 3 neighbourhoods ranked in Phoenix, which scores 56 as a whole.

63 out of 100: Somewhat Walkable
Some errands can be accomplished on foot.
#2 of 3
in Phoenix
56
Phoenix overall
57
at the centre
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What's within walking distance

451 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the centre of Willo. The nearest grocery is Zoyo Neighborhood Yogurt, about 17 minutes away on foot. It is weakest for groceries.

Groceries
Zoyo Neighborhood Yogurt
17min0.9 of 3 points
  • Safeway Pharmacy26 min
  • Safeway26 min
Restaurants & bars
Phoenix Auto Glass Repair & Replacement
8min2.1 of 3 points
  • Oven+Vine8 min
  • Mahon's Sandwich Shop10 min
Shopping
Walgreens Specialty Pharmacy
9min1.4 of 2 points
  • Chic Chef Marketplace9 min
  • CalPortland10 min
Coffee
Birdhaus Coffee
9min1.6 of 2 points
  • Bang Bang Coffee9 min
  • Central Cafe12 min
Banks
Mountain West Credit Union Association
10min0.7 of 1 point
  • Arizona Central Credit Union11 min
  • Arizona Business Bank - Phoenix Main12 min
Parks
Unnamed park
10min0.7 of 1 point
  • Viad Park10 min
  • Encanto Park12 min
Schools
Arizona Virtual Academy
16min0.3 of 1 point
  • Khalsa Montessori Elementary School17 min
  • Little Big Minds Spanish Immersion Preschool18 min
Books & libraries
Maricopa County Library District
14min0.5 of 1 point
  • The Reference Library16 min
  • Friends Of The Phoenix Public Library24 min
Culture & entertainment
Playhouse on the Park
12min0.6 of 1 point
  • Heard Museum13 min
  • Arizona Opera15 min

Measured from the mapped centre of Willo at 33.4730, -112.0792. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route.

Street layout

Within 800 m of the centre there are about 56 street intersections per km², and blocks average 127 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 Willo

Walkability scores across the 550 m around the centre of Willo57556547695260615546704371586940734866557243723977467869735960677335755874816653724382788266716472437737815580758034786276N
  • 90+
  • 70–89
  • 50–69
  • 25–49
  • 0–24

Each hexagon is the score at a point across the 550 m around the centre of Willo. Rings mark 300 m and 550 m from the centre. Gaps are water or land without streets.

Nearby neighbourhoods in Phoenix

NeighbourhoodDistanceScore
Downtown Phoenix2.8 km91
South Phoenix7.4 km54

See every neighbourhood ranked on the Phoenix page.

Questions about walking in Willo

Is Willo walkable?

Partly. Willo in Phoenix has a walkability score of 63 out of 100 across the 550 m around its centre, which makes it somewhat walkable: some errands can be done on foot.

Is Willo more walkable than the rest of Phoenix?

Willo is more walkable than Phoenix as a whole: it scores 63, against 56 for the 5 km around Phoenix's centre. It ranks 2nd of the 3 Phoenix neighbourhoods on How Walkable.

What are the most walkable neighbourhoods in Phoenix?

Of the 3 Phoenix neighbourhoods on How Walkable, the most walkable are Downtown Phoenix (91), Willo (63) and South Phoenix (54).

How is the walkability score of Willo 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 Willo it is the average of 61 points spread evenly across the 550 m 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.