How Walkable Is Your Neighborhood?

[BillF]

Score 65. Suburb of large city. Buses (free for me because of age) every few minutes.

[king ubu]

also only a 40 for me; but they list the nearest grocery store at 30 km when it's in fact 50 meters; similarly the japanese bookstore 60 km from here in Düsseldorf is not the best option for books (meaning the miss all the bookstores here as well as in Cologne ?!)

Yes, similar here... nearest grocery store is some Aldi or some such... there must be at least 100 stores inside of Zurich where you can get anything any effing Aldi has to offer, but then I assume anything smaller than Aldi is beneath Googles megalomaniac radar - and I bet it's better if it remains like that!

[Tom Storer]

Actually, I was wrong, they do have my neighborhood, but they have no idea what it contains. Not surprising that they wouldn't have good data for the entire world, but even in the US they seem to be sort of random, according to comments. A great idea for a site, but dependent on having complete data.

[vajerzy]

0 out of 100.

I'm on 12 acres- my neighbors are 57 acres to the left, 8 acres to the right, 2200 across the street, 48 behind me. I'm almost homesteading. There's farms all around me.

Edited September 12, 2008 by vajerzy

[aparxa]

45 for the place I live and soon leave, 85 for the future one.

[jazzbo]

That's pretty pathetic... I guess everything over half a mile is beyond walkability in the US or what?

My place gets a 40 only, but I consider everything I need within walking distance - at least three grocery stores, farmacies, drug stores, coffeess, one of the pizza restaurants in town, fancy bars (which I don't visit), sushi and mexican places (which I don't visit, either), etc etc. The site does contain some relevant hits for my neighbourhood, but it misses at least half of them... anyway, depends how you define "walkable", really... sometimes I prefer walking home on weekends or evenings, even if that means I'm walking for 40 or 45 minutes. So with that range and the neatness of Zurich, I'm easily in walking distance from the town centre

Points well taken. My neighborhood is sadly portrayed by the site. But walk much over half a mile. . . . I average about four miles of walking a day. And there are many options not listed on this site to walk to, bakeries, restaurants, shops and parks.

[sidewinder]

0 out of 100.

And I thought I was a basket-case

[vajerzy]

0 out of 100.

And I thought I was a basket-case

We're pretty close!! What do you have that scored an 11? I love the quiet around me and the night skies are awesome. On the other hand my brother lives in Philadelphia where he can ride a bike and take public transportation.

[sidewinder]

We're pretty close!! What do you have that scored an 11?

Probably the footpath. Or the Post Office.

Edited September 12, 2008 by sidewinder

[AllenLowe]

I can walk anywhere in South Portland, Maine, with safety -

all I want to do, however, is walk away -

[ghost of miles]

85 for my near-Westside Bloomigton locale.

[J Larsen]

100 - perfect score.

[BruceH]

My neigborhood gets an 89. Frankly, I'd rate it in the 90's. Add a much-needed bookstore, some large trees, and re-open the Alexandria Theater and I'd rate it 99.

[blajay]

My neigborhood gets an 89. Frankly, I'd rate it in the 90's. Add a much-needed bookstore, some large trees, and re-open the Alexandria Theater and I'd rate it 99.

Alexandria Theater--wow, you live close to me. I'm right through the park in the Sunset. You are still walking distance to Green Apple Bookstore--one of my favorites! And for big trees, you have Golden Gate Park of course. I agree that it could rank higher...

[Chuck Nessa]

I don't get it - the longest distance for me was 2.08 miles (Movie Theaters) and the score was 12!

[paul secor]

29 for my neighborhood. But there's a great walking path in the park less than half a mile away - don't use it as much as I should. I wouldn't patronize most of the stores, etc. they list even if they were within walking distance.

[Michael Weiss]

94 here.

[BruceH]

My neigborhood gets an 89. Frankly, I'd rate it in the 90's. Add a much-needed bookstore, some large trees, and re-open the Alexandria Theater and I'd rate it 99.

Alexandria Theater--wow, you live close to me. I'm right through the park in the Sunset. You are still walking distance to Green Apple Bookstore--one of my favorites! And for big trees, you have Golden Gate Park of course. I agree that it could rank higher...

Woah.

Yeah, my wife and I walked to Green Apple last weekend, but at 18 blocks it's a bit of a hike. I'd like a decent bookstore within 5 or 6 blocks, ideally.

(I used to live in Brookline, MA, where I was really spoiled---the Brookline Booksmith (a truly terrific little bookstore) was just 3 1/2 blocks away, and the Coolidge Corner Theater was across the street from the Booksmith. There was an excellent video store too...and shady trees everywhere! Ah, New England!)