What's your walk score?

[ClockworkOrange]

Really not sure how they work their statistics out?

From where I live in Poole, Dorset, whichever direction I go, I can ride, mainly off road too.
44.

Bang in the shopping centre of Poole, Dorset it only gave it 31!

Chelsea in London, which is pure hell for cycling because of the volume of traffic and not much better for walkers with all the pollution it was given 75.

OMG...........OK, the parks are nice to walk in but Hyde Park in central London was given 91.

Sandbanks, Poole, Dorset is said to be the fourth most expensive place to live in the world and it was given 40!

I think the guys who do all the statistics have never considered cycling anywhere!

It was a bit of fun to do AND I did not think it would include the UK, thanks Trek.

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[smurfalicious]

Yeah I think this thing is on crack. I live across the main drag from university housing and everyone walks or bikes. That and it doesn't list half the places that are close. I have a bar within staggering distance! The Denny's is missing, McDonald's is missing... sheesh.

[Duck on Wheels]

Hey there, Trek Didja try our mutual Mom's address? They gave it an 80. She was looking for a place where she wouldn't have to drive everywhere. Looks like she chose well. My place scored a 23, but they didn't locate the neighborhood schools, libraries, the pub and restaurant at the end of our street, the dozen or so shopping centers (not to mention the entire downtown area) within a mile or three in various directions, the parks, my gym, the LBS ... They just don't have enough info about the place. And then too, you have to know what a person's trying to achieve by walking. Are you looking for convenience, or trying to stay in shape? Sonoma is flat, flat, flat (well, there are hills all around the town, but not in the town itself). Here I can get my Saturday workout just walking downtown and back to do my shopping, carrying the groceries back up a couple miles of 10-20% hills. And then I can stop at the pub around the corner (it's even called Kvilhaugen, which means "Rest Stop Hill") to enjoy the view and a beer. But yeah, if by 80 they mean that an 80-year-old LOL can manage without a car, then they definitely got Mom's address right.

[Mr. Bloom]

Hmmm...

Home #1, with no sidewalks outside the neighborhood, no bike routes, and no bus service, got a 38.

Home #2, with bike routes and sidewalks throughout the entire town and bus service everywhere - in a BikeLeague Bronze rated community...got an 18.

[7rider]

Really not sure how they work their statistics out?

Maybe they determine based on what you can walk TO - i.e. destinations.
My house got a 17!
Our neighborhood has TONS of walkers - including dog walkers - and joggers. No sidewalks, but fairly quiet, although rolling, streets. But there isn't much in terms of destinations. The grocery store is over a mile away (bikeable, but not sure I'd want to walk there - especially on a code red air quality day like today.).

[SouthernBelle]

Mine got an 11. It also assumed places were open to the public, which aren't. Like assuming a coffee distributor was a coffee shop.

[VeloVT]

I got a 62. I actually think Burlington, VT is a lot more walkable than that... The following are all less than two miles from my house:
--a nice, large natural foods co-op
--a pedestrian (closed to traffic) street with shopping, restaurants and bars
--a university
--two bike shops
--two bike paths
--several parks, a "beach" (on Lake Champlain), a sailing center
--a movie theatre, a performing arts venue, a post office and a public library
--Starbucks...

[Skierchickie]

Goose Egg! However, it is the most walkable/runnable/ bikeable (just not a road bike - 2.5 miles from pavement) area I've seen in my life. It's just that we're 5 miles from anything. Can just let the dog run loose, once we get onto old logging roads. I don't like city/town living (nearly lost my mind the one time we actually did it).

However, I agree the thing is on crack - the distances it shows are all even closer than they really are. 2 miles to things that HAVE to be 10, 13 to something I know is 20. It also misplaced my house by about 2 miles, from the looks of it.

I drive to work (12 miles one way) most days (try to ride once or twice a week in the summer), groceries are on the way home, hardware store is on the way home, bank, ski trails, lbs.... all on the way home, and about 5 miles from home (although this thing says they're 2-3). I go to "town" (20 miles from home) once every week or three.

[hermitclub]

My address got a 26. Not surprising since sidewalks just suddenly end, and we have no shoulder to ride bikes on. Still, I love Cape Cod and manage to walk and bike for both exercise and errands as much as possible, and bike commute 2 - 3 days a week. But the Cape is very car-centric and has poor public transportation.