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How walkable is Tulsa, Oklahoma?
By Oscar Higson-Spence. Updated
Tulsa, Oklahoma has a walkability score of 50 out of 100 across the 5 km around its center, which makes it somewhat walkable: some errands can be done on foot. It is the joint 56th most walkable of the 58 cities ranked in the United States, with 1 other.
What's within walking distance of the center
800 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of central Tulsa, Oklahoma. The nearest grocery is about 13 minutes away on foot. It earns full or nearly full points for restaurants & bars, shopping, coffee, banks, parks, schools and culture & entertainment. It is weakest for books & libraries.
Groceries
- Pure Food & Juice, 14 min
- Shadewell Grove Foods, 24 min
Restaurants & bars
- Centennial Lounge, 3 min
- The Phoenix, 4 min
Shopping
- Clean Hands, 4 min
- Time Travelers Vintage Expo, 4 min
Coffee
- The Bend Mercantile, 10 min
- Topeca Coffee Roastery, 11 min
Banks
- Bamboo Financial Partners, 13 min
- J.P. Morgan Private Bank, 14 min
Parks
- Tracy Park, 11 min
- North Gunboat Park, 15 min
Schools
- Central High School, 17 min
- Horace Mann Junior High School, 21 min
Books & libraries
- Oklahoma Well Log Library, 20 min
- Tulsa Community College Library, 20 min
Culture & entertainment
- Nitro Lounge, 5 min
- Centennial Park, 5 min
Further than usual
- The nearest school is 16 minutes from the center on foot, against 4 minutes for the median city ranked.
Measured from the center at 36.1540, -95.9761, the point near Tulsa, Oklahoma's middle with the most places in walking range. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route.
Street layout
Within 800 m of the center there are about 75 street intersections per km², and blocks average 109 m long. Sparser streets or longer blocks reduce the score by 1%, since they make walks longer than the straight-line distance suggests.
How far walkability reaches
Tulsa, Oklahoma's score of 50 is the average across the 5 km around its center, the point with the most everyday places within a walk. Walkability averages 77 within 1 km of the center, 63 from 1 to 3 km out and 38 from 3 to 5 km out. 27% of the sampled area scores 70 or more, where most errands can be done on foot. Walkability falls off steeply away from the center, so check a specific address on the map.
- 90+
- 70–89
- 50–69
- 25–49
- 0–24
Each hexagon is the score at a point, 1 km from its neighbours, across the 5 km around central Tulsa, Oklahoma. Rings mark 1, 3 and 5 km from the center. Gaps are water or land without streets.
| Area | Score | Scoring 70+ |
|---|---|---|
| Center | 83 | 100% |
| Within 1 km | 77 | 71% |
| 1 to 3 km out | 63 | 48% |
| 3 to 5 km out | 38 | 7% |
Nearby cities
| City | Distance | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma City, United States | 157 km | 57 |
| Wichita, Kansas, United States | 209 km | 53 |
| Kansas City, Missouri, United States | 351 km | 61 |
| Dallas, United States | 383 km | 75 |
| Fort Worth, Texas, United States | 401 km | 59 |
Questions about walking in Tulsa, Oklahoma
Is Tulsa, Oklahoma a walkable city?
Partly. Tulsa, Oklahoma has a walkability score of 50 out of 100 across the 5 km around its center, which makes it somewhat walkable: some errands can be done on foot. Its center scores 83. The score covers about 80 km² around the busiest point rather than the whole city, and suburbs further out are usually less walkable, so check a specific address on the map. It ranks joint 56th of 58 cities in the United States and joint 595th of 690 worldwide on How Walkable.
What is the most walkable city in the United States?
New York City is the most walkable of the 58 cities ranked in the United States, with a score of 93. Tulsa, Oklahoma ranks joint 56th with 50.
How does Tulsa, Oklahoma compare with nearby cities?
Tulsa, Oklahoma is less walkable than its nearest ranked neighbours: it scores 50, against Oklahoma City (57, 157 km away), Wichita, Kansas (53, 209 km away) and Kansas City, Missouri (61, 351 km away).
Which part of Tulsa, Oklahoma is most walkable?
Tulsa's most walkable area is its center, the point near the middle of the city with the most places in walking range, which scores 83. Walkability averages 77 within 1 km of it. Beyond 2.5 km, it holds up best to the south-east (averaging 54) and falls most to the north-west (27).
Why is Tulsa, Oklahoma's score different from its Walk Score?
Walk Score's city scores average every neighborhood within the city limits, weighted by where people live, so they count outer suburbs that the 5 km around Tulsa, Oklahoma's center leaves out, and they are usually lower. Address by address the two agree closely: across 46 addresses in the United States and Canada, How Walkable's scores were 5.9 points from Walk Score's on average, as the accuracy study at howwalkable.com/accuracy shows.
How is Tulsa, Oklahoma's walkability score calculated?
For Tulsa, Oklahoma it is the average of 82 points spaced 1 km apart within 5 km of its busiest point, leaving out water and land without streets; 22 of them score 70 or more. Each point counts groceries, restaurants, shops, cafés, banks, parks, schools, libraries and cultural venues within a 30 minute walk, gives nearer places more weight, and loses up to 20% where streets are sparse or blocks are long, using open map data from Overture Maps (release 2026-09-23.1) 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. City position and population from GeoNames.
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