--- title: "Brooks City-Base, San Antonio walkability score: 44/100" description: "Brooks City-Base in San Antonio scores 44/100 for walkability (Car-Dependent): what's within a walk and how it compares with San Antonio." url: https://howwalkable.com/cities/united-states/san-antonio/brooks-city-base 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. [San Antonio](https://howwalkable.com/cities/united-states/san-antonio) 4. Brooks City-Base # How walkable is Brooks City-Base, San Antonio? By [Oscar Higson-Spence](https://howwalkable.com/about#author). Updated 22 October 2026 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](https://howwalkable.com/?lat=29.34514&lon=-98.44336&q=Brooks%20City-Base%2C%20San%20Antonio) ## 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 0.8 of 3 points * Walmart Grocery Pickup, 18 min * Walmart, 18 min * The Fix - Phone Repair, Tablet Repair and Accessories inside Walmart San…, 18 min ### Restaurants & bars 1.8 of 3 points * Southerleigh Brewing Company, 10 min * 1917 Restaurant, 10 min * Salad and Go, 12 min ### Shopping 1.4 of 2 points * Shavano Oaks Pharmacy @ Brooks, 6 min * Alamo Phys. Opt Mt, 9 min * ENT Clinics of San Antonio, 11 min ### Coffee 1.4 of 2 points * Starbucks Mission Trail Baptist, 8 min * City Base, 14 min * Dutch Bros. Coffee, 14 min ### Banks 0.5 of 1 point * IBC Bank, 14 min * Woodforest National Bank, 18 min * Broadway Bank - City Base Landing Financial Center, 19 min ### Parks 1.0 of 1 point * Sidney Brooks Memorial, 2 min * The Greenline, 9 min * Brooks Health & Wellness Center, 9 min ### Schools 0.6 of 1 point * Compass Rose Legacy, 12 min * CAST Imagine Middle School, 13 min * CAST Med High School, 13 min ### Books & libraries 0.0 of 1 point * None within a 30 minute walk ### Culture & entertainment 0.1 of 1 point * City Base Cinemas San Antonio, 22 min * 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.](https://howwalkable.com/maps/united-states/san-antonio/brooks-city-base.svg?v=18642b8f35d5) 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 | Neighborhood | Distance | Score | | ---------------------------------------------------------- | -------- | ----- | | [La Villita](https://howwalkable.com/cities/united-states/san-antonio/la-villita) | 9.6 km | 98 | See every neighborhood ranked on the [San Antonio page](https://howwalkable.com/cities/united-states/san-antonio#neighbourhoods). ## 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](https://howwalkable.com/methodology). Places from Overture Maps release 2026-09-23.1. Neighborhood position from Overture Maps, name from Wikidata. 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