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How walkable is Wichita, Kansas?
By Oscar Higson-Spence. Updated
Wichita, Kansas has a walkability score of 53 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 52nd most walkable of the 58 cities ranked in the United States, with 1 other.
What's within walking distance of the center
589 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of central Wichita, Kansas. The nearest grocery is about 4 minutes away on foot. It earns full or nearly full points for groceries, restaurants & bars, shopping, coffee, banks, parks, books & libraries and culture & entertainment.
Groceries
- Ze German Markt, 6 min
- Ray Sales Co, 8 min
Restaurants & bars
- Noble House Hawaiian Restaurant, 4 min
- Restaurant 155, 4 min
Shopping
- John A. Marshall Co., 3 min
- Klothes Kloset, 3 min
Coffee
- Placeholder Coffee, 4 min
- Mead's Corner, 5 min
Banks
- Emprise Bank, 3 min
- Quantum Credit Union, 3 min
Parks
- Naftzger Park, 7 min
- Finlay Ross Park, 8 min
Schools
- Child Start: 2nd Street Head Start, 23 min
- Concordia Academy Wichita, 26 min
Books & libraries
- Wizard's Alley, 7 min
- Wichita USD #259, 8 min
Culture & entertainment
- Loony Bin Comedy Club, 4 min
- Coleman Factory Outlet & Museum, 4 min
Further than usual
- The nearest school is 14 minutes from the center on foot, against 4 minutes for the median city ranked.
Measured from the center at 37.6884, -97.3347, the point near Wichita, Kansas'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 63 street intersections per km², and blocks average 121 m long. Sparser streets or longer blocks reduce the score by 2%, since they make walks longer than the straight-line distance suggests.
How far walkability reaches
Wichita, Kansas's score of 53 is the average across the 5 km around its center, the point with the most everyday places within a walk. Walkability averages 82 within 1 km of the center, 53 from 1 to 3 km out and 50 from 3 to 5 km out. 16% 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 Wichita, Kansas. Rings mark 1, 3 and 5 km from the center. Gaps are water or land without streets.
| Area | Score | Scoring 70+ |
|---|---|---|
| Center | 94 | 100% |
| Within 1 km | 82 | 86% |
| 1 to 3 km out | 53 | 10% |
| 3 to 5 km out | 50 | 10% |
Nearby cities
| City | Distance | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States | 209 km | 50 |
| Oklahoma City, United States | 248 km | 57 |
| Kansas City, Missouri, United States | 287 km | 61 |
| Omaha, Nebraska, United States | 415 km | 54 |
| Dallas, United States | 549 km | 75 |
Questions about walking in Wichita, Kansas
Is Wichita, Kansas a walkable city?
Partly. Wichita, Kansas has a walkability score of 53 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 94. 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 52nd of 58 cities in the United States and joint 553rd 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. Wichita, Kansas ranks joint 52nd with 53.
How does Wichita, Kansas compare with nearby cities?
Wichita, Kansas sits between its nearest ranked neighbours: it scores 53, against Tulsa, Oklahoma (50, 209 km away), Oklahoma City (57, 248 km away) and Kansas City, Missouri (61, 287 km away).
Which part of Wichita, Kansas is most walkable?
Wichita's most walkable area is its center, the point near the middle of the city with the most places in walking range, which scores 94. Walkability averages 82 within 1 km of it. Beyond 2.5 km, it holds up best to the east (averaging 69) and falls most to the south-west (38).
Why is Wichita, Kansas'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 Wichita, Kansas'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 Wichita, Kansas's walkability score calculated?
For Wichita, Kansas it is the average of 88 points spaced 1 km apart within 5 km of its busiest point, leaving out water and land without streets; 14 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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