COOL WEBSITE: calculates how walkable your neighborhood is

[yurbud]

http://walkscore.com/

It comes up with a score based on which kinds of businesses and necessary services are nearby.

My address got 95 out of 100, but I could have guessed that since it's why I choose to live here.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

1. 88.

[SeattleGirl]

2. Mine is 51%. I would rate it higher, actually.

Maybe at 70%.

[Nikia]

14. Mine is also 51

We live in a small town, but in a pretty good location. My location lost points because we do not have a bookstore, coffee shop, or movie theater in town.

[Deja Q]

3. 62 - but considering traffic considerations and that the mile value for many sites is wrong,

I'm thinking closer to 40.

[trof]

4. I'm a 3. The same number of miles I walk every morning.

There's nothing you can walk 'to'.
But it's imminently 'walkable' in the exercise sense.

[AlCzervik]

5. bad, 35 out of 100.

i cannot wait to move.

[DS1]

6. 95

[treestar]

7. 34. Overly suburban.

Any walk is at least a good 15 minutes (except for other people's houses)

[Oeditpus Rex]

8. 9

Life in the burboonies. :eyes:

[taterguy]

9. I was 52, someone who lives a block away was 32

Interesting concept but of course the execution is flawed.

[LeftyMom]

10. 43 it says. It's really worse

All the distances are direct, and not the real walking distances over winding suburban streets that seem determined not to get anywhere, which are close to double.

[Lex]

11. 65 for me

but I think it's probably higher. Some places weren't on there.

[Madrone]

12. Dayum. Am I the only ZERO?

Walk Score: 0 out of 100

[yurbud]

15. do you live in a brand new suburb and have trouble remembering which house is yours?

[Madrone]

19. Not even close.

Try small, old, former mining town in the mountains.

[City of Mills]

21. Oh wow...

Beautiful scenery, wow I'd love to visit there! Great dog too LOL :hi:

[Madrone]

36. Lots of people love to visit here.

They filmed Northern Exposure here, years ago.

It is beautiful, and both of those pictures are but a short drive from my house. Well, short until you get to the forest service road anyway. Then you spend a great deal of time winding your way up.

[yurbud]

27. so you can't do all your banking, shopping, and nights on the town on the dog?

[wildhorses]

13. 2

:applause:

its called the boonies :bounce:

[lizziegrace]

26. Beat ya!

I got a ZERO ;)

[wildhorses]

30. haha

to be honest...i am only 5 minutes away from a major highway interchange :rofl:

small town america...

[gizmonic]

16. 20 here. Some of the places are walkable -- if I want to take the highway

:wtf:

My town is not really a walkable town. Not much going on. :(

[Gormy Cuss]

17. 18 here, but what's weird is it is walkable to services.

I think their algorithm assumes a tolerance less than a mile as walkable. Most of the services near here are more like 1.5 miles and it is walkable thanks to sidewalks, wide shoulders on local roads, and pedestrian trails.

on edit: yep. I choose an address four blocks closer to services and it has a walkability rating of 60.

[Shine]

18. 80...not too bad. We live in suburbia.

:D

[City of Mills]

20. 97/100 where i'm moving to...

...and 6/100 where I currently live :wow:

[yurbud]

33. where are you moving to?

[krispos42]

22. Jeez, a 45

And I'm in a small town north of the Cities!


My old place was a 55, and that was a fairly well-to-do suburb!

[lizziegrace]

23. Zero

Welcome to rural america. ;)

[TheFriendlyAnarchist]

29. Geez, I even scored a 9

:)

[krispos42]

24. Oh, wait, it's not a safety thing

I thought it was a rating on how safe your neighborhood is.

Duh! :smacks forehead:

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

25. thats awesome...100 out of 100

gotta love NYC :D

[huskerlaw]

28. 74

Not bad for Los Angeles! :D

[Maine-ah]

31. lol

My address can't be found :)

[yurbud]

32. looks like you're at 1 Nipple Lane in that photo

[Maine-ah]

35. bwahhaahha

:rofl: :rofl: :spray:



I am the only bistro on the street too, just finished serving up dinner.....closing up for the night! Last call!



:evilgrin:

[yurbud]

42. I don't think you serve my kind--my teeth have come in

[Maddy McCall]

34. 0.

My walk score is zero. Nothing for miles around, which is why I love where I live. I don't walk to stores, but I walk to the creek, through the woods, around the pasture. I guess walkscore.com doesn't like rural settings.

:)

[jmm]

37. I would like to thank the liquor stores and bars

in my neighborhood for helping me score 100 :woohoo:!

[Ediacara]

38. I got an 86

And I think that's fairly accurate, although I do have to drive to get to a decent movie theater or book store, most everything is less than a mile.

[Alexander]

39. Only 58/100? Apparently this doesn't quite work right.

I live right near campus. I walk there every school day.

Under "libraries" it lists our town library, even though a larger one is right on campus.

Under "fitness" it neglects to list the rec center, again on campus.

It also doesn't list the campus bookstore, music store, or any campus restaurants or grocers. Yet the map displays all of these locations.

Ironically, under "parks" it lists a tiny spot of grass on campus that no one uses, while neglecting to mention the large park right down the street.

Under "coffee shops", it doesn't list the coffee shop two blocks down the street, nor the one in the dorms on campus, instead listing one half a mile away.

I'd say my neighborhood's real walk score is at least in the 70s or 80s.

[yellowdogintexas]

40. 57 but its info is wrong. The Winn Dixie that shows up at .2 mile

is no longer there. It is now a school, and no grocery closer than 2 miles.

[yurbud]

44. you could go steal the kids lunches

[MysticalChicken]

41. I got 25.

There's a shopping center and a few fast-food restaurants about half a mile from my house, but that's pretty much it unless I want to walk three miles to places which is Not Going To Happen.

[KitchenWitch]

43. 54

certainly could be much better.

[billyskank]

45. I am amazed

It actually knew where I lived. I was expecting a US-only site.

My area got 53, but in real life it's alright for me.

[soleft]

46. I'm 100 out of 100

And I was thinking of moving.

[seemunkee]

47. Uses crappy data

The hardware store that it lists as being less than a mile away is some contractors home address. One nearby grocery store is acually an investement company, one bar is actually the Bar-T ranch childrens day camp.
So the crappy 25 that I get is padded and should probably be lower.

[regnaD kciN]

48. Wowsers...9 out of 100...

...and it only scored that high (?) because of the alleged presence of a brewery nearby -- which, based on the map, either was listed under the wrong address or is located in the basement of someone's home.

Nearest theatre is 8.1 miles away. And don't bother walking, because it's a drive-in. :eyes:

The irony is that, when we were looking for houses, we checked to make sure that we could avoid unnecessary driving by picking a place with a bus stop (with regular runs to Seattle) within walking distance. Then, a couple of years after we moved in, Metro announced a series of "service improvements" that, while increasing bus routes to the eco-yuppified suburbs of the east side, simply closed down service to our stop altogether. Now, the nearest bus stop with connections to Seattle is almost two miles away, and only features a handful of buses per day. Anything more than that is a five mile walk along a state highway with 50 M.P.H. traffic and no sidewalks.

[1gobluedem]

49. Mine is 52%; I would've thought it would have been higher

Interestingly, though, they left out a ton of businesses that I know are nearby so how do they calculate it? By the businesses that pay to be part of the site?

[ThomCat]

50. There's a bug.

I live on Staten Island. It's counting businesses in NJ as part of my neighborhood. It's an hour drive down the island, over a bridge and back up to get to those places. They're definitely not in my neighborhood and not walking distance. :P

[terrya]

51. 94 out of 100

[cynatnite]

52. 18...

About right, I think. They are building a Lowe's not far so the score will probably go up a little.

[BarenakedLady]

53. Zero

Boonies.

[billyskank]

57. What

does "boonies" mean?

:D

[LynneSin]

54. I'm moving from a 55 to a 78

:woohoo:

[mainegreen]

55. 95! Only 1 item more than .25 mi away.

:P

[KamaAina]

56. 91

we get killed on the park, hardware and the movie theatre. And the grocery/pharmacy sells a fair amount of hardware items.

Then again, the bookstore listed sells only titles in Japanese (well, maybe Korean, but none in English, at any rate). They could have counted one of the stalls in front of the grocery as a "coffee shop". And the "school"? It's one of those exam prep centers! :eyes:

[Kutjara]

58. 83, which is unbelievably good for the OC.

I picked my apartment because there were many ameneties nearby. Everywhere else I saw practically required a drive to the mailbox.

[greatauntoftriplets]

59. 92.

:)