What's Your Home's Walk Score?

[terpkristin]

I'd never heard of it before, but the idea is interesting to me. I've always lived in the suburbs, the concept of walking much of anywhere never crosses my mind since I live relatively far away from things.

According to walkscore.com, my address has a score of 18 making it "car dependent." My work address has a score of 37, not surprising given the strip mall relatively close by, and my parents' house has a score of 43, thanks in large part to the hospital and things that pop up around hospitals very close by.

So, what's your walk score?

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[Lathum]

46.

My old house in Seattle is a 98.

We lived there for 5 years and I put about 20K miles on our car.

[CleBrownsfan]

2 :D

[Blackadar]

6

Friggin' hate it.

[vex]

Home: 0 (Country)

Work: 72 (Downtown Tulsa)

[thesloppy]

82...and I do walk pretty much everywhere.

[terpkristin]

2 :D

Wow, I figured only lungs would get that low. ;)

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[stevew]

I get a 29 but it's questionable IMO. I dunno if it takes off for no sidewalks. However I have a nice restaurant on the corner that is near a Dollar General. across the street from that is a Sheetz. There's also a grocery store over there too. IMO it should be higher. There's also a Walmart and a big plaza but they are on the edge of walking.

[Lathum]

There's also a Walmart .

They probably assume most Walmart shoppers wouldn't walk to one if it was across the street.

[PilotMan]

I get a 3.

We are about a 10 minute drive to anything. Put about 12.5k miles on the minivan per year, and my work car gets about 3-4k.

[lighthousekeeper]

42. I would have guessed 0, but then it reminds me that yes there is a pizza shop, food store, park, and coffee shop all within short walking distance. but the problem where i live is the lack of sidewalks. so some of the nearby places are seriously difficult to get to safely.

when i'm jogging, i feel boxed in with few options because of several high traffic higways that are nearly impassable.

[Bigsmooth]

83 here. Getting better too as about 3 new "mini-breweries" have opened within blocks in that last year.

[mckerney]

I got a 0.

[B & B]

Im gonna say this thing is pretty wrong.


My house is a 6. (car dependent)

I live on a resort island and work .9 miles from home.

I rode my bike (bicycle not my Harley) to work a week ago. Spent way more time cleaning off pollen and inflating up the tires again. Also, only takes about 8-10 minutes on pedals to get to the beach. Probably half that to get to a sailboat filled marina.


6, bah.

[Alan T]

31 for me

I can't think of anyone though here that walks to any of the nearby "stores" anything within walking distance is pretty much non-chain local stuff that I am not sure how they even stay in business.

I guess you could walk to work if you worked at the nearby Mill or Plant..

[TroyF]

12.

Only reason it's a 12 is because of some parks and a golf course nearby. Closest retail anything is at least a 40 minute walk one way. I'm not lazy, but if I want something to drink at 10 PM, there is no way in hell I'm hoofing it that far.

[Jon]

94 here in downtown Seattle.

My old place in Jersey City, NJ is 100.

[lungs]

0
Yeah, I ain't walking anywhere out here.

[Marc Vaughan]

0 for my house - but actually I happily walk my dog around the neighborhood and its dead easy to run or cycle to the shops down the road (around 4 miles away).

[Flasch186]

Im a 9 in the current home, a 2 in the one that we're building. Id imagine most places in North Florida are below a 50 if thats the break even.

[ColtCrazy]

14 at my home. When I worked in the UK, it was an 86. Sad.

[BillyNYC]

83 here in lovely Queens. Previous place in Chicago was an 85. City boy am I.

[Vince, Pt. II]

37 where I am now, 82 at my old place in Willow Glen. I walk more often than a 37 would suggest here, but it is a solid 15 minute walk to get to the nearest commercial centers (there are several that are equidistant in different directions).

[Marc Vaughan]

14 at my home. When I worked in the UK, it was an 86. Sad.

Thats what my house in the UK was - couldn't understand why it wasn't 100 tbh as you could walk to every 'required' convenience without difficulty and outside of that public transport was great from there (put it this way I didn't learn to drive until I moved to the US).

[molson]

42.

I don't have to use the car too much though - I'm about 2 miles from downtown (and work), and am rarely anywhere but downtown, home, or somewhere in between.

[JediKooter]

37 here, but, that's not surprising. San Diego is pretty spread out, but, it's pretty easy to get around by car. Well, unless you live off of the 15 freeway anywhere between Mira Mesa and Temecula.

[nol]

63, and I remember looking at this briefly when picking out a place to live (or maybe it was integrated in a website like Zillow).

[tarcone]

my score is 11. But I think part of the problem is there isnt much in my town.

[FrogMan]

I got a 15 here and it fits I think. Mostly rural...

FM

[DaddyTorgo]

Shockingly I'm a 55. I think it's because I have a mall literally across the street and a grocery store like...a half mile away.

[EagleFan]

0, closest anything is a mile and a half.

Previous address is a 29.

Home prior to that a 40. (Surprising it isn't higher as there is a mall, supermarket and restaurants all across the road from that development)

Childhood home is a 48.


Looks like I am trending towards getting farther away from things.

[Izulde]

54 walk score at my current address

71 walk score at my old place

Admittedly stuff was closer at my old place overall, but it's not *that* much further to things at my current address, or I wouldn't still be living here, so I think the gap is very much unwarranted. Of course, I may move again in the fall.

58 Walkability in the shithole apartment I lived in Arkansas my last year there.

54 Walkability at my childhood home, which makes no sense. It's far less walkable than any other place I've ever lived, especially since the neighborhood Piggly Wiggly moved out years ago.

Every other place I've lived has been on campus, so not really worth checking the Walkability score for.

[DaddyTorgo]

Piggly Wiggly.

LOL

[Sun Tzu]

Walk Score at my house: 92

Walk Score at my office: 98

San Francisco is a walkers dream.

[digamma]

In the city probably most known for driving in the US, my walk score is an 85. I try not to get in the car on weekends.

[CU Tiger]

0 if there was a negative score Im sure Id have that.

Nearest gas station is 5 miles. There is a dollar general just opened about 7 miles away.

Want a grocery store? Well there is a super wal mart that sell groceries that is 23 miles away.

[Desnudo]

15 by intent. Get off my lawn.

[Scarecrow]

12

However, my 'grocery store' that is .6 miles away is a juice bar; the nearest true grocery store is 3.5 miles away.

[mckerney]

12

However, my 'grocery store' that is .6 miles away is a juice bar; the nearest true grocery store is 3.5 miles away.

I did notice some strange entries for certain categories. My closest shopping was a plumber.

Also checked my old house I lived in during college and they're was a lot of places missing. It showed the closest bar as being about half a mile away ignoring the one that was a block away.

[nilodor]

35 at home, 87 at work. Pretty good considering the city itself gets a 45, which is not surprising considering its footprint is larger than new york.

[cuervo72]

32 home, 38 for work. I'm a little surprised about work, because there isn't much of anything I'd want to go to other than a Subway within a mile. But I guess all the tourist shops in Gettysburg are about 1.3 miles away which is what they are counting.

[OldGiants]

Apparently this chooses mileage 'as the crow flies' because the only way I'm a mile from shopping is if I fly across Swift Creek Reservoir. My odometer tells me its 1.5 miles to the pizza place or Five Guys. And some of the obviously home businesses are pointless to include.

[Buccaneer]

40 for home - I don't think it considers topography and like others said, it's probably crow flies

89 for work - which doesn't consider that downtown has very little residential areas.

[Butter]

26.

[21C]

I got 100.

[Ryan S]

I got 100.

My sister has a friend who was brought up on a remote Queensland cattle station. I am pretty sure that would be somewhere around -1000 :)

[Autumn]

72, and I'm not surprised, that's largely why we moved here.

[Breeze]

14 Home
68 Work

[Mike Lowe]

My condo downtown Chicago: 98
House I'm renting in the burbs: 14

Quite the contrast!

[Honolulu_Blue]

I got an 85, which, for living in Michigan, is pretty good.

When we moved back here, eight years ago now, we wanted to live someplace walkable. The options are pretty limited, but we ended up finding a great house right where we wanted to live.

[JonInMiddleGA]

I get a car-dependent 29, which actually surprised me being so low since it's not especially daunting to consider walking to an entire Walmart/Lowe's shopping area (you know, with the usual food & outparcel retail crammed alongside).

Of course afaic it's 0, 'cause the only way I'm walking there is if I'm completely out of smokes.

[General Mike]

Home is 25.

[cartman]

Big fat 0. The exit of the neighborhood is more than a 20 minute walk according to their map. :)

[Godzilla Blitz]

Cool, thanks for sharing.

57 for our house. Sounds about right.

[Terps]

71

[fantom1979]

29 here and that is partly bullcrap. Most of the walkable locations near my house are work from home websites. I just spent the last 15 minutes editing those places out of their listings.

[Ben E Lou]

Our household continues to trend toward complete car dependency. The home we moved from in the Lowcountry is a 9. The house we're renting in Greensboro is a 7. And a few hours ago we put an offer in on a home in GSO that's a 1. I suppose this can't be our last home then. ZERO OR BUST, BABY!

[Blackadar]

0 Walk Score
0 Transit Score

Yet most everything I need is within a 10 minute car drive - 3 supermarkets, a mall, restaurants, Home Depot, etc.

[timmae]

Hey fellas.... lets walk over to Ben's place to say hello!! Errr... umm... email will work.

[Fidatelo]

72 for my house, but I don't think that site takes weather into account. It should read:

May-Oct: 72
Nov-Apr: good luck, fool.

[BYU 14]

Mine is a 2, we live in a fairly populated suburb of Phoenix, but on the fringes where there is still a lot of farmland.

[Brian Swartz]

17, which is nonsense. The 'corner store', a gas station/inconvenience store a half-mile away, is the only thing you can get to without a car.

[Easy Mac]

Walk score of 3. In theory I could walk to the Target 1 mile away or the grocery store 1.5 miles away... but I could also be hit by one of the thousand cars that drive down the road with no sidewalk.

I can walk to the fire station safely, so I should get more points for that.

[BishopMVP]

93.

I'm shocked my parents vacation home on an island didn't get a 0, but I guess there is a city park on it that raises it to a 2. Although my dad's spent entire summers without touching a car after taking the ferry in to Portland when necessary, so it's all in the eye of the beholder.

[terpkristin]

I'd never heard of it before, but the idea is interesting to me. I've always lived in the suburbs, the concept of walking much of anywhere never crosses my mind since I live relatively far away from things.

According to walkscore.com, my address has a score of 18 making it "car dependent." My work address has a score of 37, not surprising given the strip mall relatively close by, and my parents' house has a score of 43, thanks in large part to the hospital and things that pop up around hospitals very close by.

So, what's your walk score?

/tk

So I originally posted this almost a year ago. My score is now a 7. Nothing really changed where I live. Work is now a 26 which also hasn't changed much but now everybody knows it's Warp Drive (yes, I work on Warp Drive). My parents' house is a 20.

Interesting that they must have re-scaled this or something. Interestingly, 3-5 miles from my house, a neighborhood "center" has popped up since last year. I would think it would make it borderline walkable. The new "center" has a Nando's, Alamo, Uncle Julio's, Bar Louie, some other restaurants, a Fresh Market, and soon, a Volt Family Meal. :D

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