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How walkable is Brooks City-Base, San Antonio?

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Brooks City-Base has a walkability score of 44 out of 100 across the 1.3 km around its center, which makes it car-dependent: most errands require a car. It is the less walkable of the 2 neighborhoods ranked in San Antonio, which scores 68 as a whole.

44 out of 100: Car-Dependent
Most errands require a car.
#2 of 2
in San Antonio
68
San Antonio overall
49
at the center
Open on the map

What's within walking distance

297 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the center of Brooks City-Base. The nearest grocery is about 18 minutes away on foot. It earns full or nearly full points for parks. It is weakest for groceries, books & libraries and culture & entertainment.

Groceries

Walmart Grocery Pickup
, 18 min; 0.8 of 3 points
  • Walmart, 18 min
  • The Fix - Phone Repair, Tablet Repair and Accessories inside Walmart San…, 18 min

Restaurants & bars

Southerleigh Brewing Company
, 10 min; 1.8 of 3 points
  • 1917 Restaurant, 10 min
  • Salad and Go, 12 min

Shopping

Shavano Oaks Pharmacy @ Brooks
, 6 min; 1.4 of 2 points
  • Alamo Phys. Opt Mt, 9 min
  • ENT Clinics of San Antonio, 11 min

Coffee

Starbucks Mission Trail Baptist
, 8 min; 1.4 of 2 points
  • City Base, 14 min
  • Dutch Bros. Coffee, 14 min

Banks

IBC Bank
, 14 min; 0.5 of 1 point
  • Woodforest National Bank, 18 min
  • Broadway Bank - City Base Landing Financial Center, 19 min

Parks

Sidney Brooks Memorial
, 2 min; 1.0 of 1 point
  • The Greenline, 9 min
  • Brooks Health & Wellness Center, 9 min

Schools

Compass Rose Legacy
, 12 min; 0.6 of 1 point
  • CAST Imagine Middle School, 13 min
  • CAST Med High School, 13 min

Books & libraries

None within a 30 minute walk
–; 0.0 of 1 point

Culture & entertainment

City Base Cinemas San Antonio
, 22 min; 0.1 of 1 point
  • Brooks City-Base Theater!!, 22 min

Measured from the mapped center of Brooks City-Base, San Antonio at 29.3451, -98.4434. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route.

Street layout

Within 800 m of the center there are about 69 street intersections per km², and blocks average 93 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 Brooks City-Base, San Antonio

Walkability scores across the 1.3 km around the center of Brooks City-Base. 12% of points score 70 or more; the lowest, 6, is 1 km to the south-east.
  • 90+
  • 70–89
  • 50–69
  • 25–49
  • 0–24

Each hexagon is the score at a point across the 1.3 km around the center of Brooks City-Base, San Antonio. Rings mark 650 m and 1.3 km from the center. Gaps are water or land without streets.

Nearby neighborhoods in San Antonio

NeighborhoodDistanceScore
La Villita9.6 km98

See every neighborhood ranked on the San Antonio page.

Questions about walking in Brooks City-Base, San Antonio

Is Brooks City-Base walkable?

Not very. Brooks City-Base in San Antonio has a walkability score of 44 out of 100 across the 1.3 km around its center, which makes it car-dependent: most errands require a car.

Is Brooks City-Base more walkable than the rest of San Antonio?

Brooks City-Base is less walkable than San Antonio as a whole: it scores 44, against 68 for the 5 km around San Antonio's center. It is the less walkable of the 2 neighborhoods ranked in San Antonio on How Walkable.

How is the walkability score of Brooks City-Base 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 Brooks City-Base it is the average of 56 points spread evenly across the 1.3 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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