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How walkable is Jackson Heights?
By Oscar Higson-SpenceUpdated
Jackson Heights has a walkability score of 95 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 most walkable of 5 neighbourhoods ranked in Queens, which scores 82 as a whole.
What's within walking distance
2,018 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the centre of Jackson Heights. The nearest grocery is CTown Supermarket, about a minute away on foot. It earns full or nearly full points for groceries, restaurants & bars, shopping, banks, parks, schools and culture & entertainment.
- Green Store1 min
- C-Town1 min
- Whitexicans Restaurant & Bar1 min
- Bocaito1 min
- Sam's Surprises1 min
- T-mobile1 min
- Caffe Bene11 min
- Central Cafe12 min
- Queens County Savings Bank, a division of New York Community Bank7 min
- TD Bank7 min
- Rory Staunton Field5 min
- Travers Park5 min
- I.S. 145 School of Innovation and Applied Learning4 min
- Garden School4 min
- The World's Borough Bookshop13 min
- Himalayan Library13 min
- Cotton Club7 min
- Performing Arts Conservatory of New York15 min
Measured from the mapped centre of Jackson Heights at 40.7557, -73.8858. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route.
Street layout
Within 800 m of the centre there are about 69 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 Jackson Heights
- 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 Jackson Heights. Rings mark 500 m and 1 km from the centre. Gaps are water or land without streets.
Nearby neighbourhoods in Queens
| Neighbourhood | Distance | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Rego Park | 4.2 km | 92 |
| Forest Hills | 5.2 km | 85 |
| Flushing | 5.9 km | 92 |
| East New York | 9.9 km | 88 |
See every neighbourhood ranked on the Queens page.
Questions about walking in Jackson Heights
Is Jackson Heights walkable?
Yes. Jackson Heights in Queens has a walkability score of 95 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 Jackson Heights more walkable than the rest of Queens?
Jackson Heights is more walkable than Queens as a whole: it scores 95, against 82 for the 5 km around Queens's centre. It ranks 1st 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 Jackson Heights 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 Jackson Heights 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.