What's your walk score?

[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.

[sfa]

Mine's a 71, but I wonder about their scoring system. Not just the distance, but also what they consider in ranking a neighborhood. Like they don't consider the proximity of doctors and dentists. And they count odd things in categories (7-11 is a grocery store? And the university library, while very nice, doesn't allow the general public in, so why include it?) and have way, way out of date information--they have things listed for my neighborhood that have been closed for years, and a lot of stuff has opened recently (that I think makes the neighborhood even more walkable) that isn't listed. But overall a 71 seems about right for my neighborhood. If we had to, we could live without a car.

Sarah

[Crankin]

Ha! My score is a 15! I guess it's because we have no sidewalks on my street and it's 4 miles from town, on a huge hill. However, to me that's close. I don't walk to town (well, I did twice), but I do ride my hybrid there.
Funny, we have tons of cyclists and walkers here even though it is ranked so low. But if you were a "regular" person living on my street would be a detriment to riding.
It's just far enough away so I don't become fat from going to all of the restaurants in town. If I lived one mile closer, I might be tempted to walk there more often.

[Tuckervill]

We'll be the first to admit that Walk Score is just an approximation of walkability. There are a number of factors that contribute to walkability that are not part of our algorithm:

* Public transit: Good public transit is important for walkable neighborhoods.
* Street width and block length: Narrow streets slow down traffic. Short blocks provide more routes to the same destination and make it easier to take a direct route.
* Street design: Sidewalks and safe crossings are essential to walkability. Appropriate automobile speeds, trees, and other features also help.
* Safety from crime and crashes: How much crime is in the neighborhood? How many traffic accidents are there? Are streets well-lit?
* Pedestrian-friendly community design: Are buildings close to the sidewalk with parking in back? Are destinations clustered together?
* Topography: Hills can make walking difficult, especially if you're carrying groceries.
* Freeways and bodies of water: Freeways can divide neighborhoods. Swimming is harder than walking.
* Weather: In some places it's just too hot or cold to walk regularly.


My house had a score of 58.
Karen

[rij73]

98! Walker's Paradise...

[minn]

Ooh, my neighborhood got a 100!! I love living smack dab in the middle of the East Side of Milwaukee. Beer, Food, Laundry and Shopping all a step outside of my door. (oh and school is right here too).

[ny biker]

This site is not up to date - it doesn't list the grocery store that is within walking distance of my house that opened earlier this year. Also it leaves out most of the restaurants, bars and shops that are in the same area as the grocery store.

[BlueVet11]

Mine is 7/100 That is not a typo. Funny I can ride to work and to the grocery store easily. Probably wouldn't want to walk it tho - too steep.

I've got you beat! Mine is a 3/100!!! Which is true, you kinda have to drive to get anywhere and the roads are very unsafe and put together by committee for sure. The main intersection is 2 roads running parallel with each other with a little road connecting them and only 2 stop signs for 5 or 6 ways of traffic. It's scary enough in a car!

My other house is a 20/100, which is kind of a bummer because there is a big strip with 3 grocery stores, tons of fast food joints, a couple really good restaurants and misc shopping that is only a mile from my house.

ETA: the public transit bus stop is also a mile from my house.

[Paradox]

I live in an "8".

Yep, everyone's pretty dependent on their cars/SUV's out there in the 'burbs, and the drivers aren't used to seeing anyone walking or biking on the road.

There are a few paved paths running around the neighborhoods, but none of them really go anywhere except to another road...

My partner hates living out where we do... takes 45 minutes of driving to get to any decent mountain biking trails. We both probably spend 1-1.5 hours a day in the car commuting to work too. Yep, the gas prices hurt.

Now if only the real estate market would go back up we could move w/o losing a ton of money to some place more rideable!

[Midmichigangal]

I got 57/100

[TxDoc]

88/100 - better than I actually expected!

[NoNo]

Woot! 78, and they're missing plenty of restaurants and bars from their list. Compare that to the 23 of my old address One of the main things that drew me to the new place were a)sidewalks and b)plenty of things within walking distance. I'm so much happier there!

[redrhodie]

75. I'll take it, but I kinda thought it would be higher. Everything I need is within walking distance, including the beach. Well, we could use an Indian restaurant. Okay, that's worth 25 points.

[btchance]

Where I live right now is a 9. However, we have a nice running and biking trail right out side my door, and I can go out and get 100+ miles on my bike with no problem. However, none of those routes really take you anywhere. Closest convience store is 1.5mi, closest restaurant (and only 1) is 1mi. Everything else is farther away.

So I punched in some of my old addresses, and where other places I have lived were 8 (with a grocery store only 3miles away - everything else farther), 28 (bad neighborhood - would never walk even around my apartment complex), and for where I grew up, a big whopping zero. No suprise there, as it's 3mi to a convience store, and the next closest thing is is a couple of miles further. But heck, wasn't OKC rated as having the most dependence on cars in the entire nation with common 80mi round trips to work? I would believe it.