# What's your Walkscore? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 5, 2008, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-walkscore/432417 "2008-01-05T19:13:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2008, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-walkscore/432417/1 "2008-01-05T19:13:30Z")
An [interesting site](http://www.walkscore.com) for those in market for a new home, or just curious about how your neighborhood stacks up. My home ranks a 60/100, but that’s misleading. Most of the places they list I wouldn’t bother going to. And they left out the biggest attraction, which is being right on the greenbelt/bike trail near a lake. ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2008, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-walkscore/432417/2 "2008-01-05T19:27:55Z")
Ha ha! 5 out of 100! I think I knew that, though. People here call the police if they see you walking down the street. ---
**Author:** ![3acresandatruck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/e79b87/32.png) [@3acresandatruck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3acresandatruck)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2008, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-walkscore/432417/3 "2008-01-05T19:30:49Z")
Walk Score: 0 out of 100 gee, I don’t get it…I walk a few miles every day. ---
**Author:** ![Soul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Soul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soul)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2008, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-walkscore/432417/4 "2008-01-05T19:36:50Z")
71 out of 100, which seems a little high. This isn’t the best neighborhood I’ve ever been in, and that’s putting it mildly. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2008, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-walkscore/432417/5 "2008-01-05T19:37:59Z")
“The address you entered could not be found” I guess that gives me a 0. I would like to keep it that way. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2008, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-walkscore/432417/6 "2008-01-05T19:46:39Z")
2 out of 100 ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2008, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-walkscore/432417/7 "2008-01-05T19:57:31Z")
1. It’s not the most reliable though. It listed a seafood store as a restaurant, lists an open restaurant that’s been closed for a few years, missed a great restaurant down the block, missed the two closest bars and a few schools, etc. ---
**Author:** ![liirogue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dbc845/32.png) [@liirogue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/liirogue)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2008, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-walkscore/432417/8 "2008-01-05T20:05:08Z")
49 out of 100, which is laughable - my neighborhood is not in a good area at all. And the businesses they list aren’t really acurate. They list a comic store as a bookstore (which I guess works, but I identify them with completely different things), and a construction company as a hardware store. ---
**Author:** ![Vihaga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Vihaga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vihaga)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2008, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-walkscore/432417/9 "2008-01-05T20:05:20Z")
For the place we’re moving to in two months, 46. For the place we’re living now, 75. (Though they didn’t count the train station or the slew of other shops that don’t fit neatly into their categories. Also, their definition of grocery store is a bit odd.) Yes, we are moving to the suburbs, how did you know? ---
**Author:** ![Hanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b3f665/32.png) [@Hanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hanna)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2008, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-walkscore/432417/10 "2008-01-05T20:14:46Z")
1. But, it uses Google Maps info that places a Taco John’s and another bar/grill the next block over. That info is totally wrong. Plus, the ‘grocery store’ listed is actually one of those super supper places. ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2008, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-walkscore/432417/11 "2008-01-05T20:25:22Z")
I had 54 out of 100. The list of grocery stores were all mini marts or hole in the wall foreign food places while it skipped a Fred Meyer which is a huge full service grocery store. It also lists some place in their straight line distance, walking would be 3 or 4 times the listed distance. ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2008, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-walkscore/432417/12 "2008-01-05T20:28:49Z")
80 out of 100. I live in Waikiki so that 80 comes at a cost. ---
**Author:** ![Monstera\_deliciosa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monstera_deliciosa/32/109_2.png) [@Monstera\_deliciosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstera_deliciosa)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2008, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-walkscore/432417/13 "2008-01-05T20:40:35Z")
I’m not surprised. My current home in the far northwest Chicago suburbs got a score of 14 out of 100. Even the things that are reasonably close by require walking at least part of the distance on extremely non-pedestrian friendly roads (high speed limits, inadequate or non-existant sidewalks, few traffic lights.) My previous home, in White Plains NY, got 98 out of 100. I miss stepping out of my front door and walking to almost every convenience imaginable. ---
**Author:** ![Indygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@Indygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indygrrl)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2008, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-walkscore/432417/14 "2008-01-05T20:48:12Z")
23 out of 100 Lol, but they counted the Annex Adult Bookstore as a bookstore. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2008, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-walkscore/432417/15 "2008-01-05T20:49:34Z")
I’m glad I started this thread; it would seem that one should take the information provided with a large grain of salt. We’re planning to move in the next couple of years to the Northwest and this site is used extensively by realtors as a selling point for properties. It appears that nothing is a substitute for actually walking the 'hood. ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2008, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-walkscore/432417/16 "2008-01-05T20:53:31Z")
37, but I’d tend to find it a bit suspicious that the thing takes no note of the fact that I can throw a rock and hit a 40 mile long hike/bike path and I’m a mile from Powell Butte which is quite the magnet for hikers. The bike path also cuts straight through to a lot of business areas and makes the walk shorter than going around the blocks. It’s interesting, but not terribly accurate. ---
**Author:** ![Shecky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@Shecky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shecky)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2008, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-walkscore/432417/17 "2008-01-05T20:54:25Z")
My old apartment got a 76! Too bad you’ll get mugged down the block. Oh, and Jesus Books is not exactly the place you curl up with a good book. THE Good Book, yes, but not anything non-jesusy. ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2008, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-walkscore/432417/18 "2008-01-05T21:05:28Z")
Mine’s a 55, which is stupid. The restaurant it lists is Long John Silver’s, the bar is one step up from a titty bar (I’ve never been there, but apparently its draw is waitresses in their underwear), the library listed is the Monsanto Information library (which probably isn’t even open to the public, and no one would go there if it were), and in order to get to any of these places, one needs to walk on major streets without sidewalks. It’s a nice place to go for a walk (there are nice neighborhoods off the main thoroughfares), but not to actually go anywhere. Seems like a mostly useless site, or at least one that needs to be taken with a grain or several million of salt. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2008, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-walkscore/432417/19 "2008-01-05T21:17:44Z")
1. Residentiasl neighborhood, not mixed-zone. The unmentioned part is that that .9 mile walk to the grocery involves navigating a drop of over 400 feet on the way down, and the commensurate rise on the way up. It’s not a flatland kind of stroll with your ice cream in your backpack. On the bright side, bored teenage vandals (a) don’t come up the hill; and (b) if they live on the hill, they get off it as soon as possible. **Chefguy,** where are you thinking of moving? I’ll bet some of us know some stuff! ---
**Author:** ![Randy\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ee7513/32.png) [@Randy\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Randy_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2008, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-walkscore/432417/20 "2008-01-05T21:18:47Z")
It gives my neighborhood (Center City Philadelphia) a **98** , but upon further examination, it counts Planned Parenthood as a library, Jay’s Deli as a grocery store, and “American Family Theater” (which doesn’t exist), as a movie theater. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-walkscore/432417.md?page=2)