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Residents&rsquo, walking trips are a kind of natural motion that promotes health and wellbeing by modifying individual behavior. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the major influence of the spatial elements of a health-supportive environment on residents&rsquo, walking trips. This study analyzes residents&rsquo, walking trips&rsquo, elements based on the spatiotemporal characteristics of walking trips, as well as the spatial elements of a health-supportive environment in residential streets based on residential health needs. To obtain the spatial elements that promote residents&rsquo, walking trips and to build an ordered logistic regression model, two methods&mdash, a correlation analysis and a logistic regression analysis&mdash, were applied to analyze the elements of residents&rsquo, walking trips as well as the spatial elements of a health-supportive environment in residential streets by means of SPSS software, using on-site survey results of ten residential streets and 2738 pieces of research data. The research showed that the nine kinds of spatial elements that significantly affect residents&rsquo, walking trips are density of pedestrian access, density of bus routes, near-line rate of roadside buildings, average pedestrian access distance, square area within a 500 m walking distance, distance to the nearest garden, green shade ratio, density of street intersections, and the mixed proportion of differently aged residential buildings. In order to construct a spatial environment that promotes walking trips, it is necessary to improve the convenience of residents&rsquo, walking trips, to increase the safety of roadside buildings and pedestrian access, to expand the comfort of &ldquo, getting out to the nature&rdquo, and to enrich the diversity of different architectural styles and street density.