the site called it a walkers paradise.
I got a 98 as well. There are quite a few restaurants and bars within a five minute stroll from my place, although the closest supermarket listed is the small corner store across the street that I only go to if I am out of something and desperate.
89 is the official score. I’m surprised it’s not higher. I’ve lived in the area for over twenty years perfectly happily without a car.
My current place in a travesty-of-a-suburb is a 52, although it understates the distance to a lot of places, so the score should be lower. In three weeks I’m moving to an actual neighborhood with a score of 85. 
Apparently it’s only 37. Bit of a shock to me, considering I walk damn near everywhere. Including to the bus stop. Also, apparently this thing believes there is a convenience store/takeout shop in my apartment building, on the fourth floor, about two doors down. I’ve been to the fourth floor. If there’s a takeout place up there they’re doing a good job at hiding it.
Also it doesn’t list the actual grocery store that’s a quarter of a kilometer away. Instead, it lists the convenience store. It doesn’t list the churches and schools that are sprinkled liberally in my neighbourhood. It’s big on parks, though–I don’t know why, I practically live in a park, and I can throw a stone and hit three or four parks in my neighbourhood, not that it did me a damn bit of good when there was a transit strike on.
And why, if I needed to go to a hardware store, would I go to a flooring merchant??? The two things are not the same.
- I think that’s about right. The only things I can’t get within walking distance are normal grocery stores (there are a couple of hippie grocery stores within walking distance) and big stores where they have Stuff. You know, like Target or Meijer. I have to take the bus. Well, I suppose I could get most of the Stuff I’d get at Target or Meijer downtown, but then it’d be from some chichi boutique and be eight times more expensive. Ann Arbor is a great place to get fancy ass crap and waste time in cafes and bookshops, but basics take more effort.
It says my old address in Chicago is an 88. WTF-ever. I’d put it higher. I could get EVERYTHING in my old neighborhood. Chicago, how I miss you.
My walk score – in a suburb of San Francisco – is 51.
My parents walk score, in Los Angeles (not normally considered a very walkable city) is a very respectable 82.
One of the main reasons I need a car is the walk score of the location of my job – only 14.
Ed
Based on my extremely small sample, I’d say 89 is extremely high. I could theoretically walk anywhere I needed to go - it’d be a bit of an annoyance and a stretch, but there are jobs in my field, supermarkets, doctor and dentist offices, restaurants etc, all within walking distance of me, and I only got a 34.
Current place I reside scores a 15, mainly because I’m 1.3 miles up on the mountain, but 1/4 mile from the bottom are 2 large strip malls which have just about anything available, most importantly the home improvement store 
The last 5 addresses I’ve had all score above 75… I guess that is why I’m home so much nowadays. But I dunno, it has it’s advantages being that the area I live in is very safe (that’s what I thought the test was going to be about) – we don’t even lock our doors, ever – and there is tons of parking so that is never an issue if I host a party or something – and it’s always nice and quiet up here.
Hmmmm, I just calculated the walk scores of the last few places I’ve lived - 57, 74, and 65. I guess the most urban place I’ve ever lived is a suburb of the city I live in now. Kinda funny.
For the record I don’t consider any of those places much more or less “walkable” than my current home (a 34), and out of all four of them, I think the 57 was truly the most walkable, by a small margin. The 65 was stuck between a mountain preserve and a freeway and thus probably the least walkable.
I got a 75 and am stunned. I honestly thought I would get like a 90 something. Absolute everything is right around the corner from me.
71, which is a joke in L.A.
In the last 18 years, I’ve lived in four residences. The walk scores of each, starting with my current residence:
94
88
89
86
It’s funny, though: while I do walk to many of the places in my neighborhood, I still drive an average of 10 miles a day.
Unless waiting will allow tectonic plate movement to bring my home closer to urban/commercial centers, I don’t think there’s any point in waiting longer.
It doesn’t work for my current address in Panama. The address where I grew up in the Bronx gets a 97. From that, I would guess my Panama address would get over 90, the main things missing from the immediate neighborhood being a library and a bookstore.
- In central Phoenix. But, that is a stretch. The gay bathhouse is listed as “Gym” one half mile away! The grocery stores are all convenience stores. Still, no one expects to walk anywhere in Phoenix. I do like having a bar and the Circle K in walking distance. That did come in handy when my car kept breaking down earlier this year.
I added the local supermarket to Google maps and got my score to go from 57 to 65.
0/100. I don’t even know why I bothered. I could have figured this out on my own. Heh.
- That’s the East Village for ya.
I noticed on the website it says “currently supports USA,UK and Canada”. I guess they should update that.
Have you noticed it does different things for different countries? I looked up my old house in Scotland (got a 78) and it doesn’t have the hardware store or school categories.
My current house gets an 89, but when I do it manually via Google Maps with sensible things in the categories, it goes down to 76.