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How walkable is Flushing?
By Oscar Higson-SpenceUpdated
Flushing has a walkability score of 92 out of 100 across the 1 km around its centre, which makes it a Walker's Paradise, where daily errands do not require a car. It is the 3rd most walkable of 5 neighbourhoods ranked in Queens, which scores 82 as a whole.
What's within walking distance
1,702 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the centre of Flushing. The nearest grocery is Hansol Food, about a minute away on foot. It earns full or nearly full points for groceries, restaurants & bars, shopping, coffee, banks, schools, books & libraries and culture & entertainment.
- Nature Garden Ny, Inc4 min
- H Mart5 min
- Tang Huo Kung Fu1 min
- Domino's Pizza1 min
- Seoul Pharmacy 서울약국1 min
- Wedding Boutique1 min
- Plug and Play Gaming Cafe4 min
- Coffee Factory6 min
- Newbank4 min
- Bank of Hope4 min
- Murray Hill Playground10 min
- Flushing Fields11 min
- Preschool R' Us7 min
- Kiddie Academy of Flushing10 min
- 알라딘 플러싱점(Ny)2 min
- Queens Public Library at McGoldrick11 min
- new open karaokeinc6 min
- MusicBox Karaoke6 min
Measured from the mapped centre of Flushing at 40.7654, -73.8174. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route.
Street layout
Within 800 m of the centre there are about 76 street intersections per km², and blocks average 114 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 Flushing
- 90+
- 70–89
- 50–69
- 25–49
- 0–24
Each hexagon is the score at a point across the 1 km around the centre of Flushing. Rings mark 500 m and 1 km from the centre. Gaps are water or land without streets.
Nearby neighbourhoods in Queens
| Neighbourhood | Distance | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Forest Hills | 5.4 km | 85 |
| Jackson Heights | 5.9 km | 95 |
| Rego Park | 6.1 km | 92 |
| East New York | 12.3 km | 88 |
See every neighbourhood ranked on the Queens page.
Questions about walking in Flushing
Is Flushing walkable?
Yes. Flushing in Queens has a walkability score of 92 out of 100 across the 1 km around its centre, which makes it a Walker's Paradise, where daily errands do not require a car.
Is Flushing more walkable than the rest of Queens?
Flushing is more walkable than Queens as a whole: it scores 92, against 82 for the 5 km around Queens's centre. It ranks 3rd of the 5 Queens neighbourhoods on How Walkable.
What are the most walkable neighbourhoods in Queens?
Of the 5 Queens neighbourhoods on How Walkable, the most walkable are Jackson Heights (95), Rego Park (92) and Flushing (92).
How is the walkability score of Flushing 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 Flushing it is the average of 61 points spread evenly across the 1 km 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.