My neighborhood has a walkable score of 89, that’s one reason we like it here.
I got a 2! That’s semi-rural living for you.
I get a walkability score of 0. That’s why I like it 
Seriously though, if you want a nice walk that does not include running errands, the White River National Forest is right out my door.
I don’t drive, so only within walking distance. Supermarket, drug store, doctors office, library. I can take the bus, but rarely do. I have a friend with a car, and maybe once a month she takes me somewhere.
I often go a month without going more a 30 minute walk from my house.
Of the last five times I I was more than a half hour from my house, four of them were on airplanes across oceans. Two of th em around the world.
My neighborhood scores a 71. Most needed stuff and lots of entertainment is within 1/2 a mile. By 3/4 mile you’ve got almost everything except a mall and a major medical center. Yesterday I made separate walking trips to the beach, to lunch, and to the grocery plus adjacent CVS stores.
The downside is we have two seasons: It’s either very hot and sticky or it’s chock-full of NYC / NJ drivers that hate pedestrians.
Bicycling for transportation on the major streets is simply exercising your right to become an organ donor. To the degree one can stay on the side streets it’s quite pleasant. That adds 1/4 to 1/2 mi to your roundtrip.
This now being hot & sweaty season, after my groc run in midafternoon I was totally pitted out and needed a long cooling shower and clean dry clothes.
I’m very happy with my choice of location.
My wife and I are both about 2 miles from our workplaces. I ride a bike and she walks to work. We often walk or bike when we go out for dinner or drinks (it’s around 1.25 miles to our downtown). We also often bike to the next town over for entertainment (they have more and better choices) and that is about 10 miles each way but we have a nice trail to ride. We tend to drive for our grocery shopping but we do sometimes ride. Not often enough for me 
Our one car sits a lot.
Our town gets a walkscore of 83.
I live in NYC, so most things are in walking distance (93 walk score for my neighborhood). My daughters’ elementary school was a few blocks away, middle school was mass-transit and their high schools will be, also. I work from home now, but this will most likely end by October when my contract expires, and I’ll probably go back to commuting out to NJ at least a few days a week. I do most of my bike riding in Central Park. Even though there are more bike lanes, venturing out into traffic gives me the willies so I avoid it as much as possible.
I score an 80. I live downtown in a smallish town (30,000ish)
I can easily (10 minutes or less) bike anywhere I need to go for ordinary business. About the only time I need a drive is when I’m visiting family members, in which case I catch a ride with my mom or uncle who would also be visiting them.
Granted, I probably have a considerably longer range that I consider “biking distance” than most people (about 10 miles), but my biking range encompasses half of my local metropolis and all of about eight suburbs, including the four where I work.
My walk score is a 93. I walk or take transit everywhere. I do order grocery delivery and will order from Amazon frequently, mainly for convenience.
There are probably 100 bars, 100 restaurants, Wrigley Field, and Lake Michigan, all in an easy walk. Work is about 4 miles away, easy by train and the occasional Uber.
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Keen insights in this thread. Even keener if the exact county one listed i were in the posts for persons possibly relocating.
I’ve lived in San Francisco for over 35 years and I haven’t owned a car since 1995. If it’s less than two mile I walk. Otherwise I take public trans, a taxi/Lyft or rent a car.
Walkability is a property of neighborhoods, not of counties. To be sure, there are some counties, such as San Francisco county, or places like the Borough of Manhattan with the uniform extra density of residence, transport, & commerce that gives walkability throughout. But they’re the exception that proves the rule; by and large US counties aren’t walkable.
But that doesn’t mean neighborhoods within them aren’t walkable. E.g.
I live in a suburban town of 15 square miles and 80,000 people. It’s fully walkable for at most a couple thousand of us living in one small 1/2 mile square. Everybody else gotta drive.
The town’s within a fully built-out wall-to-wall span of suburbs comprising our county of 1200 square miles housing 2 million people. Within the whole shebang there’s only a few small enclaves of thorough walkability. Everybody else gotta drive.
Now throughout the county there are many, many examples of a generic strip center with a grocery store, a Dominoes, and a Chinese takeout plus a generic apartment complex backed up to it. That’s “walkable” for those apartment residents. But that’s a pretty cramped and crabbed definition of walkable.
We live in a rural area of sleepy Champaign County, Ohio. Lots of corn and soybean fields. There’s a small IGA grocery store in a village located 8 miles away. If we want to go to a dry cleaner, restaurant, major bank, etc. we go to the nearest city which is about 18 miles away.
I don’t walk or bike on these roads. The roads are narrow, windy, and people drive 70 MPH on them. No thanks!
My neighborhood gets a 92, which seems low. We’re on the outer part of downtown Tokyo, in a neighborhood which, due to a quirk of geography, has no direct through traffic and therefore no busy streets.
Parks, schools, restaurants, hospital/clinics and all our daily shopping/errands are within a 5-minute walk, with major department stores and culture/entertainment centers 10 minutes by bike.
In addition, there’s a neighborhood shuttle bus that the elderly use, a city bus network, and 3 train stations within a 10-minute walk that connect us everywhere else. There’s almost no reason to own a car here, so I don’t.
If I had a bike, I would use it. I work and do probably 90% of my transactions with other businesses that are within a two mile radius of my house.
We’re less than two miles from groceries and restaurants, but the vertical is about a thousand feet. Up and down and up and down on large hills. Down is fine, but…!!! It’s about four miles going by the highway and still with some smaller hills. We’re just south of Seattle, right above the water.
I lived in Wheaton, IL for a few years and while I missed the water and mountains here, there was something to be said for the flatness. I liked walking to the stores and Caribou Coffee a mile and a half away.
ETA: Well, crap. My Caribou Coffee closed. 
It was in Danada Square.
I don’t live very local at either of my locations, but I applaud those who have the opportunity to do so and take advantage of it!
At our place on the Big Island, we have to drive about 15 minutes to get gas or groceries. (There is a little mom-n-pop store within walking distance, but it doesn’t sell any produce, meat, or dairy, so it’s fine if you run out of sugar or want a soda, but not much else).
In Jakarta, no one walks anywhere - it’s too hot and the roads are too dangerous, since sidewalks are unusual and usually broken down when they exist. Technically speaking, however, I can walk to a good nearby grocery store in about 10 minutes. While I rarely do so, I appreciate knowing that if I absolutely need something and my husband is out with the car, I can get it with a little effort. The traffic is pretty dangerous, though.
You can always PM the person and ask. Some of us who are in the Witness Protection Program don’t like to noise it around where we’re hiding out.
My neighborhood gets only a 28 on the Walk Score, but it doesn’t give a bike score, for some reason.
Doesn’t matter, I bicycle everywhere, since I don’t own a car. Two trips for groceries every week for a combined 9-10 miles. Bank and barber are closer; dentist is about 10 miles one way. That last one was a bit a bit of a bother recently, because I had to go there in the morning and then return in the afternoon. So 40 miles total for that and I counted that as my workout for the day. Otherwise, my usual workout ride is about 30 miles/day with steep hills (it’s not much of a workout without the steep hills). So running erands around town is not a workout.
ETA: on the rare occasions we get snow that sticks, I will walk to the grocery stores. That happened this last winter. The total distance was a bit less than the 9-10 miles, but not by much. That’s because when walking I could go along an arterial that I avoid bicycling on.
I’m going to bicycle down to Salem to see the eclipse in a couple months. Not sure how far, exactly, maybe 60 miles one way. But that’s a different thread.