Walkability by city / Grand Rapids, MI

Walkability in Grand Rapids, MI

How easy it is to get around Grand Rapids on foot, by transit and by bike — averaged over where the metro's 1.15 million residents live, with its most walkable neighborhoods ranked.

The metro at a glance

Each score is the average of the scores across the metro's streets, weighted by how many people live along them.

Walk Score: 22

Negligible

Driving mandatory

Transit Score: 15

Negligible

Negligible or nothing

Bike Score: 27

Negligible

Negligible or none

Where residents live, by Walk band

14% of residents live where the Walk Score is Moderate or better.

Complete 0%
Substantial 4%
Moderate 9%
Minimal 17%
Negligible 69%

Most walkable neighborhoods

Ranked by Walk Score. Every area listed is home to at least 1,500 people; where a city has no mapped neighborhood boundaries, the whole city or community is ranked instead.

#	Neighborhood	Residents
1	Lake OdessaVillage · whole area · 1,520 residents	1,520
2	HollandCity · whole area · 26,580 residents	26,580
3	Grand HavenCity · whole area · 11,910 residents	11,910
4	Spring LakeVillage · whole area · 2,690 residents	2,690
5	BeechwoodCommunity · whole area · 3,790 residents	3,790
6	Grand RapidsCity · whole area · 200,210 residents	200,210
7	Cedar SpringsCity · whole area · 3,750 residents	3,750
8	HastingsCity · whole area · 8,590 residents	8,590
9	ZeelandCity · whole area · 6,740 residents	6,740
10	RockfordCity · whole area · 5,870 residents	5,870
11	Third Wardin Grand Rapids · 65,690 residents	65,690
12	GrandvilleCity · whole area · 16,140 residents	16,140
13	NorthviewCommunity · whole area · 15,350 residents	15,350
14	East Grand RapidsCity · whole area · 11,420 residents	11,420
15	MiddlevilleVillage · whole area · 4,920 residents	4,920
16	IoniaCity · whole area · 11,750 residents	11,750
17	SpartaVillage · whole area · 4,720 residents	4,720
18	HudsonvilleCity · whole area · 7,760 residents	7,760
19	Comstock ParkCommunity · whole area · 10,490 residents	10,490
20	LowellCity · whole area · 3,900 residents	3,900
21	WyomingCity · whole area · 77,320 residents	77,320
22	WalkerCity · whole area · 25,010 residents	25,010
23	CaledoniaVillage · whole area · 1,840 residents	1,840
24	PortlandCity · whole area · 3,560 residents	3,560
25	BeldingCity · whole area · 5,960 residents	5,960

Show all 36 ranked areas

#	Neighborhood	Residents
26	GreenvilleCity · whole area · 10,290 residents	10,290
27	Byron CenterCommunity · whole area · 6,460 residents	6,460
28	AllendaleCommunity · whole area · 25,900 residents	25,900
29	CutlervilleCommunity · whole area · 19,440 residents	19,440
30	JenisonCommunity · whole area · 17,740 residents	17,740
31	KentwoodCity · whole area · 54,400 residents	54,400
32	Howard CityVillage · whole area · 1,850 residents	1,850
33	FerrysburgCity · whole area · 3,070 residents	3,070
34	SaranacVillage · whole area · 1,760 residents	1,760
35	CoopersvilleCity · whole area · 4,860 residents	4,860
36	Forest HillsCommunity · whole area · 28,590 residents	28,590

These are averages: streets within a neighborhood can score well above or below its number. For the scores at one address, look it up.

Updated October 15, 2026.

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