Community & participation

Statistics such as the Scottish Household Survey and Scotland’s People and Nature Survey tells us how often we walk and how close we live to local spaces and places where we can walk. This section also holds guidance for helping you grade walking routes to make it easier for users to understand what exactly an easy walk is as well as how we can make our towns better places to walk to and through.

People from an ethnic minority

are 25% more likely to be a casualty than white pedestrians

Source: Pedestrian casualties higher among BAME people and in poor areas

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of people regularly or occasionally cycled in 2022

Source: Monitoring Cycling in Scotland (Cycling Scotland)

Tags: Planning, design & safety

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20 minute neighbourhoods

20 minute neighbourhoods

are places that are designed so residents?can meet their day-to-day needs within a 20 minute walk of their home

Source: 20 minute neighbourhoods in a Scottish context

Tags: 20-Minute Neighbourhoods

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the number of healthy years of life added to the nation by the network of paths in England and Wales

Source: Ramblers

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the average increase in retail sales created by projects that improve walking, cycling or public transport access to shops.

Source: Create Streets

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the pecentage increase in pedestrian casualities in Scotland in 2022-23

Source: Scottish Transport Statistics 2023

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Equality Diversity and Inclusion

of women were dissatisfied or very dissastified about safety on walking or wheeling routes

Source: Scottish Women's Budget Group

Tags: Equalities, Diversity & Inclusion

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of active commuters met 30?min/day of activity through their commute in 2011

Source: Quantifying the health and economic benefits of active commuting in Scotland

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A quarter of adults in Scotland

state that their ability to participate in outdoor recreation is limited by a long-term illness, health problem or disability

Source: Scotland?s People and Nature Survey: underrepresented groups

Tags: Behaviour change

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Equality Diversity and Inclusion

in green space use were sustained, and possibly exacerbated, during movement restrictions

Source: Green space positively influences health and well-being

Tags: Equalities, Diversity & Inclusion

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of soot pollution in the air was reduced outside a school in London through banning parents dropping children off by car

Source: Evening Standard

Tags: Behaviour change

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trips to the outdoors involved walking which is 86% of all trips to the outdoors (SPANS 2020)

Source: Scotland's People and Nature Survey

Tags: Physical, mental and social health

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