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Which UC campus has the most restaurants within a 10-minute walk?
UC Berkeley has the most: 277 places to eat within half a mile of campus, about a 10-minute walk. UC Davis is second with 43, and UC Irvine is third with 37. UC Merced has none within half a mile.
All 9 UC campuses, ranked
| Rank | Campus | Places to eat within a 10-minute walk |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | UC BerkeleyBusiest food street: Shattuck Ave | |
| 2 | UC DavisBusiest food street: G St | |
| 3 | UC IrvineBusiest food street: Campus Dr | |
| 4 | UC San DiegoBusiest food street: Villa La Jolla Dr | |
| 5 | UCLABusiest food street: Gayley Ave | |
| 6 | UC RiversideBusiest food street: University Ave | |
| 7 | UC Santa BarbaraBusiest food street: Embarcadero del Mar | |
| 8 | UC Santa CruzBusiest food street: Potrero St (within 2 miles) | |
| 9 | UC MercedBusiest food street: G St (within 4 miles) |
All nine undergraduate campuses of the University of California. Each name opens that campus's page, with the places to eat closest to it.
How we counted
For each campus we counted the places to eat within half a mile, in a straight line from the campus. Half a mile is about a 10-minute walk.
- Places to eat — restaurants, fast-food places, cafés and casual eateries in the Overture Maps open places data (release 2026-09-23.1). Chains count the same as independents. Listings marked closed, and low-confidence listings, are left out.
- The campus — the location the U.S. Department of Education lists for each school, moved to the main campus where that point is an office away from it.
- Busiest food street — the street with the most of those places within a mile of campus, or within the wider distance shown for a campus with few places close by.
Map data is never complete, and a new place can take a while to appear in it, so read the counts as a fair comparison between campuses rather than an exact census. More on where our data comes from.
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