My home scores at 14, but I’m dubious that it’s so high. I’d score home as much closer to zero as we’re a sort of lollipop neighborhood - there’s one road in or out, and there’s really nothing along the road except for a golf course on one side and a military base on the other.
For any but the most devoted or hearty, it’s not possible to walk to anything other than your car in the driveway. Closest transit is nearly two miles away.
7-11 is the closest “grocery” at two miles away.
Coding for “restaurants” is off - they picked a catering comany as the nearby restaurant. Next-closest is the bar at the golf course. Guess they serve hamburgers there?
Closest “park” is an industrial park. Next up is a “linear park” that’s nothing more than a strip of grass planted along the commuter rail line.
Our previous apartment scores as 77, but expect to be mugged in that neighborhood. Not surprisingly, my office downtown scores a perfect 100, where everything that walkscore looks for is within two blocks.
Ahh, Brooklyn.
Although it left stuff out like BAM, The Brooklyn Academy of Music which has theatres both live and movie but it did list places further away than that.
77 for me. I really wonder about the source of their information. For instance, they show hospitals that have been closed for 20 years at least. How do they even manage that?
A Marionette Puppet Theatre was listed as a movie theatre, and a Comic Book Shop as a bookstore.
I would have given the neighborhood significantly higher than 66 if this was a couple years ago when the TWO bookstores in the strip mall 1/2 a city block from my condo were still there (now BOTH closed,) and the actual movie theatre 1 1/4 miles away were still in operation (now closed, couldn’t draw enough ppl in at $4 a pop.)
69/100 on the southwest side of Chicago. Sounds about right to me. I would have guessed slightly lower (maybe in the low 50s), but, come to think of it, there is plenty of places to walk to around here–just most of them are kinda boring.
49/100 Highly inaccurate.
They miss the walking greenbelt 2 blocks from my house.
They list the corporate offices of a movie theatre chain as a movie theater.
The distances don’t take actual walkable routes into account but seem to use strict linear distance. Sure, the closest supermarket is 0.25 miles away, but it’s at the bottom of a 200 foot cliff. You need to drive or walk at least 1 mile to get around the drop.
Cute idea, but almost worthless as implemeted.
78, which is about what I expected. I live a block away from a major busline, two blocks away from a major grocery store, and I really can’t think of something that I need that I can’t get access to by foot or by bus in ten to twenty minutes.
How do they score this? The only accuracy problem I noticed is that it shows the closest bar is Bennigan’s 1.7 miles away when there’s 5 places I can get a drink and 4 where I can buy beer and wine a block away.
The only thing more than a mile away for me is the Movie Theater (I hate movies, anyway) and the bars they inaccurately list as closest.
Seems about right. I have a very easy walk to a hardware store, pet store, grocery store, movie theater, bars, galleries, gyms & yoga, restaurants, liquor store, donut shops, video stores, dry cleaners, convenience stores. And, that’s pretty much without counting a single chain store.
The one difficult thing to find within a reasonable distance of my house is a good magazine rack. Still, that’s only about a mile away.
It should be a little bit higher IMO. This area has improved a lot in the last couple of years and my walkscore is missing a lot of new places, most notably the market and taqueria right across the street from us. And there is a bus stop right outside of our condo complex.