Walkability in England and Wales

Total length of off-road walkable routes (footpaths, bridleways etc) divided by different denominators for local authority districts. More info here. Cycling version here.

By population
By km of road
By area

Data

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District Walkable Length By Road Length By Area By Population
Adur 146.23 635 3482 2.3
Amber Valley 903.68 1146 3410 6.9
Arun 721.79 883 3266 4.2
Ashfield 453.01 841 4118 3.5
Ashford 1262.6 952 2173 9
Babergh 1173.35 993 1975 12.1
Barking and Dagenham 121.02 302 3362 0.5
Barnet 375.89 426 4321 0.9
Barnsley 1239.16 958 3766 4.9
Basildon 618.37 825 5622 3.2
Basingstoke and Deane 1407.1 901 2219 7.3
Bassetlaw 869.34 771 1363 7
Bath and North East Somerset 1194.14 1021 3451 6
Bedford 1260.75 1139 2649 6.5
Bexley 294.1 476 4821 1.1
Birmingham 1109.17 382 4139 0.9
Blaby 381.13 601 2932 3.5
Blackburn with Darwen 475.03 759 3467 2.9
Blackpool 152.19 305 4348 1.1
Blaenau Gwent 255.68 587 2346 3.8
Bolsover 501.23 914 3133 6
Bolton 575.22 532 4109 1.9
Boston 297.91 362 818 4.2
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole 640.75 473 3955 1.6
Bracknell Forest 403.62 677 3703 3.1
Bradford 1453.12 713 3970 2.6
Braintree 1441.08 1074 2355 8.8
Breckland 1664.23 789 1275 11.4
Brent 152.93 290 3557 0.4
Brentwood 422.64 826 2762 5.3
Bridgend 403.8 459 1609 2.7
Brighton and Hove 520.26 752 6268 1.8
Bristol, City of 626.08 491 5692 1.3
Broadland 898.99 643 1629 6.5
Bromley 539.06 551 3594 1.6
Bromsgrove 576.48 684 2657 5.7
Broxbourne 223.36 669 4380 2.2
Broxtowe 335.55 707 4194 2.9
Buckinghamshire 4549.21 1196 2907 7.9
Burnley 535.3 1218 4823 5.4
Bury 388.16 519 3921 2
Caerphilly 667.9 613 2411 3.8
Calderdale 1342.87 1088 3689 6.4
Cambridge 276.67 751 6748 1.9
Camden 216.78 697 9854 1
Cannock Chase 292.42 622 3702 2.8
Canterbury 1083.12 1119 3505 6.7
Cardiff 654.48 520 4642 1.7
Carmarthenshire 1260.71 347 532 6.6
Castle Point 143.89 455 3198 1.6
Central Bedfordshire 2143.4 1113 2994 6.8
Ceredigion 1085.16 493 608 14.9
Charnwood 771.24 791 2764 4.1
Chelmsford 1008.42 925 2975 5.3
Cheltenham 247.98 613 5276 2
Cherwell 1231.94 887 2092 7.2
Cheshire East 2582.07 812 2214 6.1
Cheshire West and Chester 1902.68 707 2068 5.1
Chesterfield 263.04 554 3985 2.5
Chichester 2035.79 1491 2590 15.8
Chorley 703.6 929 3466 5.8
City of London 60.64 990 20213 4
Colchester 713.16 699 2174 3.6
Conwy 1353.64 748 1202 11.8
Cornwall 5848.68 744 1650 10
Cotswold 1831.86 939 1574 20
County Durham 4024.18 1004 1808 7.5
Coventry 581.54 572 5874 1.6
Crawley 563.21 1324 12516 4.5
Croydon 444.83 526 5172 1.1
Cumberland 4492.8 1149 1492 16
Dacorum 743.77 906 3508 4.6
Darlington 228.6 360 1160 2
Dartford 335.76 669 4599 2.7
Denbighshire 1273.51 799 1522 13
Derby 394.76 457 5061 1.4
Derbyshire Dales 2172.66 1576 2743 30.3
Doncaster 923.13 502 1625 2.9
Dorset 5775.68 1337 2319 14.8
Dover 762.56 837 2421 6.4
Dudley 381.88 337 3897 1.2
Ealing 239.37 380 4274 0.6
East Cambridgeshire 974.86 984 1497 10.5
East Devon 1331.83 625 1636 8.4
East Hampshire 1482.99 1135 2885 11.4
East Hertfordshire 1484.25 1318 3118 9.5
East Lindsey 1629.62 646 922 11.2
East Riding of Yorkshire 1802.66 474 750 5.1
East Staffordshire 664.33 704 1717 5.1
East Suffolk 2531.84 947 2008 10.1
Eastbourne 225.28 709 5120 2.2
Eastleigh 398.47 657 4981 2.8
Elmbridge 353.38 579 3720 2.5
Enfield 300.36 420 3708 0.9
Epping Forest 1143.26 1266 3372 8.3
Epsom and Ewell 188.16 732 5534 2.3
Erewash 390.92 804 3554 3.4
Exeter 294.68 606 6270 2.1
Fareham 315.16 599 4259 2.7
Fenland 373.47 416 684 3.6
Flintshire 798.74 533 1815 5.1
Folkestone and Hythe 740.54 801 2074 6.6
Forest of Dean 1443.93 1191 2745 16.1
Fylde 204.6 347 1233 2.4
Gateshead 548.4 567 3862 2.7
Gedling 366.32 726 3053 3
Gloucester 269.3 573 6568 1.9
Gosport 123.3 489 4932 1.5
Gravesham 353.66 781 3572 3.2
Great Yarmouth 395.37 703 2272 3.9
Greenwich 388.24 642 8260 1.3
Guildford 1281.01 1411 4727 8.5
Gwynedd 3322.61 1194 1311 27.5
Hackney 150.01 505 7895 0.6
Halton 330.71 475 4186 2.5
Hammersmith and Fulham 111.33 464 6958 0.6
Harborough 905.67 780 1530 8.6
Haringey 171.45 447 5715 0.6
Harlow 359.23 1204 11588 3.7
Harrow 184.82 369 3696 0.7
Hart 723.25 990 3364 7
Hartlepool 227.59 494 2421 2.3
Hastings 211.21 754 7040 2.3
Havant 306.81 619 5479 2.4
Havering 356.81 465 3186 1.3
Herefordshire, County of 3164.68 884 1452 16.6
Hertsmere 393.82 801 3899 3.6
High Peak 1577.52 2090 2927 17.2
Hillingdon 651.89 736 5620 2
Hinckley and Bosworth 695.56 836 2342 6
Horsham 1481.58 1300 2795 9.8
Hounslow 331.9 588 5927 1.1
Huntingdonshire 1536.82 895 1696 8.1
Hyndburn 347.06 915 4754 4
Ipswich 185.25 434 4631 1.3
Isle of Anglesey 691.58 510 971 10
Isle of Wight 1382.21 1508 3637 9.8
Isles of Scilly 132.69 5390 8293 56.1
Islington 108.78 423 7252 0.5
Kensington and Chelsea 73.44 320 6120 0.5
King's Lynn and West Norfolk 1250.99 594 869 8
Kingston upon Hull, City of 261.58 309 3633 0.9
Kingston upon Thames 137.05 359 3704 0.8
Kirklees 1513.06 745 3699 3.4
Knowsley 210.65 287 2421 1.3
Lambeth 185.76 436 6880 0.6
Lancaster 1066.38 948 1881 7.4
Leeds 2290.62 675 4150 2.7
Leicester 389.01 432 5329 1
Lewes 900.79 1423 3085 8.8
Lewisham 178.47 364 5099 0.6
Lichfield 560.79 588 1694 5
Lincoln 195.57 602 5433 1.9
Liverpool 489.85 309 4374 1
Luton 176.31 349 4100 0.7
Maidstone 751.08 604 1911 4
Maldon 626.59 1065 1750 9.1
Malvern Hills 1739.33 1482 3014 20.9
Manchester 638.56 425 5505 1.1
Mansfield 356.22 773 4626 3.1
Medway 626.05 665 3227 2.1
Melton 838 1117 1742 15.5
Merthyr Tydfil 209.74 531 1890 3.6
Merton 251.17 614 6610 1.1
Mid Devon 957.77 487 1049 11.3
Mid Suffolk 1844.25 1094 2117 16.6
Mid Sussex 1040.88 1078 3116 6.4
Middlesbrough 189.16 316 3503 1.2
Milton Keynes 1279.52 807 4141 4.2
Mole Valley 1170.64 1760 4537 13.2
Monmouthshire 1292.89 718 1523 13.6
Neath Port Talbot 462.34 479 1048 3.2
New Forest 2948.53 1930 3921 16.7
Newark and Sherwood 1271.44 1047 1953 9.9
Newcastle upon Tyne 484.77 446 4290 1.5
Newcastle-under-Lyme 552.47 698 2618 4.3
Newham 262.41 538 7289 0.7
Newport 481.95 546 2537 2.9
North Devon 1208.15 587 1112 11.9
North East Derbyshire 934.13 1175 3385 8.8
North East Lincolnshire 370.95 484 1922 2.3
North Hertfordshire 937.02 980 2499 6.8
North Kesteven 1007.87 698 1093 8.2
North Lincolnshire 704.63 433 832 4.1
North Norfolk 1286.25 687 1332 12.5
North Northamptonshire 1672.35 729 1694 4.5
North Somerset 1162.15 859 3107 5.2
North Tyneside 414.42 477 5054 1.9
North Warwickshire 486.67 577 1714 7.3
North West Leicestershire 837.21 932 3001 7.5
North Yorkshire 10996.85 1177 1368 17.3
Northumberland 4372.7 807 871 13.2
Norwich 360.18 832 9235 2.4
Nottingham 632.31 693 8431 1.9
Nuneaton and Bedworth 231.74 465 2933 1.6
Oadby and Wigston 91.79 441 3825 1.5
Oldham 640.04 720 4507 2.5
Oxford 310.81 805 6757 1.9
Pembrokeshire 1593.33 597 985 12.7
Pendle 776.64 1586 4596 7.8
Peterborough 589.03 514 1717 2.6
Plymouth 546.63 599 6833 2
Portsmouth 225.17 442 5629 1.1
Powys 5535.4 1021 1068 41
Preston 447.41 586 3151 2.7
Reading 218.58 480 5465 1.2
Redbridge 257.91 433 4606 0.8
Redcar and Cleveland 436.89 585 1783 3.1
Redditch 338.28 826 6264 3.9
Reigate and Banstead 584.09 861 4528 3.7
Rhondda Cynon Taf 676.57 520 1596 2.8
Ribble Valley 1440 1871 2470 21.9
Richmond upon Thames 559.26 1238 9812 2.8
Rochdale 537.38 605 3401 2.3
Rochford 303.87 682 1820 3.4
Rossendale 798.01 1948 5783 10.9
Rother 1021.41 1134 2007 10.6
Rotherham 910.76 693 3173 3.3
Rugby 686.09 718 1955 5.6
Runnymede 308.11 724 3950 3.3
Rushcliffe 893.99 943 2186 7.1
Rushmoor 199.27 558 5109 1.9
Rutland 436.41 699 1142 10.5
Salford 367.51 393 3789 1.2
Sandwell 381.78 357 4439 1.1
Sefton 382.39 351 2436 1.3
Sevenoaks 1066.03 991 2889 8.7
Sheffield 1932.34 942 5251 3.3
Shropshire 3821.48 674 1195 11.5
Slough 100.63 252 3049 0.6
Solihull 579.56 556 3256 2.6
Somerset 7462.54 1024 2163 12.7
South Cambridgeshire 1798.87 1083 1994 10.4
South Derbyshire 790.51 911 2339 6.7
South Gloucestershire 1658.65 872 3337 5.4
South Hams 1394.41 748 1572 15.1
South Holland 400.45 289 534 4
South Kesteven 1240.01 802 1315 8.4
South Norfolk 1564.63 765 1723 10.5
South Oxfordshire 1639.63 1213 2415 10.5
South Ribble 299.62 471 2652 2.6
South Staffordshire 666.36 579 1637 5.8
South Tyneside 346.42 563 5413 2.3
Southampton 359.74 566 7195 1.4
Southend-on-Sea 147.51 296 3512 0.8
Southwark 230.6 529 7952 0.7
Spelthorne 154.89 431 3442 1.4
St Albans 566.57 740 3519 3.8
St. Helens 339.36 394 2495 1.8
Stafford 1106.97 570 1851 7.8
Staffordshire Moorlands 1493.34 1294 2593 15.5
Stevenage 275.73 873 10605 3
Stockport 522 480 4143 1.7
Stockton-on-Tees 462.86 437 2258 2.2
Stoke-on-Trent 371.08 381 3990 1.4
Stratford-on-Avon 1669.2 908 1707 11.4
Stroud 1636.32 1325 3550 13
Sunderland 558.87 432 4079 1.9
Surrey Heath 420.97 828 4431 4.5
Sutton 143.65 312 3265 0.7
Swale 774.51 719 2076 4.9
Swansea 756.12 622 2000 3
Swindon 818.16 755 3557 3.4
Tameside 382.19 457 3711 1.6
Tamworth 221.44 417 7143 2.7
Tandridge 731.81 1028 2951 8.1
Teignbridge 1118.6 600 1660 8.1
Telford and Wrekin 585.4 472 2019 3
Tendring 616.54 675 1835 3.9
Test Valley 1241.13 890 1976 9.2
Tewkesbury 1117.3 1119 2699 11
Thanet 265.71 463 2555 1.9
Three Rivers 298.9 646 3358 3.1
Thurrock 304.58 421 1857 1.7
Tonbridge and Malling 680.5 747 2835 5
Torbay 264.44 467 4197 1.9
Torfaen 280.04 527 2223 3
Torridge 512.86 291 521 7.3
Tower Hamlets 265.85 780 13293 0.8
Trafford 390.24 441 3682 1.6
Tunbridge Wells 539.9 656 1631 4.5
Uttlesford 1862.34 1510 2905 19.6
Vale of Glamorgan 797.35 806 2409 5.9
Vale of White Horse 1280.27 1145 2215 8.6
Wakefield 1021.8 592 3014 2.8
Walsall 282.3 298 2714 1
Waltham Forest 229.58 502 5887 0.8
Wandsworth 269.63 559 7930 0.8
Warrington 560.94 487 3099 2.6
Warwick 801.04 323 2831 5.2
Watford 96.26 387 4584 0.9
Waverley 1346.11 1425 3902 10
Wealden 1878.29 1165 2255 11.3
Welwyn Hatfield 490.43 851 3773 4
West Berkshire 1455.66 898 2068 8.8
West Devon 1536.76 957 1325 26.1
West Lancashire 667.3 716 1923 5.5
West Lindsey 897.23 557 776 9
West Northamptonshire 2655.54 836 1928 6
West Oxfordshire 1200.04 943 1681 9.9
West Suffolk 1695.88 935 1639 9
Westminster 234.16 608 11150 1.1
Westmorland and Furness 6735.05 1474 1793 29.3
Wigan 643.56 491 3423 1.9
Wiltshire 6509.86 1226 2000 12.4
Winchester 1428.89 945 2162 10.5
Windsor and Maidenhead 585.38 751 2987 3.7
Wirral 450.66 344 2799 1.4
Woking 372.52 962 5821 3.5
Wokingham 530.59 537 2964 2.8
Wolverhampton 232.96 277 3376 0.8
Worcester 162.06 462 4911 1.5
Worthing 129.79 396 3933 1.1
Wrexham 690.21 523 1369 5
Wychavon 1643.51 1098 2479 11.9
Wyre 546.15 656 1937 4.6
Wyre Forest 503.84 797 2584 4.8
York 608.32 685 2236 2.9