How "walkable" is your neighborhood?

[phk]

To see your score, plug your address into this site and it will churn out walkability based on how far certain amenities are (parks, schools, hospitals, grocery stores, restaraunts, etc.)

http://www.walkscore.com/

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

80 out of 100 —  Very Walkable

[CultureKing]

At School - 78 - very walkable
At home - 0 - car dependent

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88

[Alexander Hamilton]

45/100 for my first Bakersfield residence
29/100 for my second Bakersfield residence
46/100 for my school

[nclib]

77 out of 100

[phk]

San Diego residence:
Walk Score: 85 out of 100 —  Very Walkable

Fresno residence:
Walk Score: 26 out of 100 —  Car-Dependent

Clovis residence:
Walk Score: 11 out of 100 —  Car-Dependent

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Typing in the closest match (the actual road I'm closest to is fairly long so I don't know where they'd be measuring from)... Walk Score: 73 out of 100 —  Very Walkable. There are some errors though - the Bangor Uni Arts Library (which is open to the public) isn't listed, neither is the (lovely) park-ish area in front of Main Arts, the closest place to buy food is certainly not down in the city (there are plenty of places, including a Morrisons, in Upper Bangor), etc, etc. Must admit that the description of Rascals Cafe Bar as a "Coffee Shop" is... amusing. It's actually a (pretty awful) student drinking hole. They obviously just went off the name.

Just checked where my parents live - 0 out of 100 —  Car-Dependent. It's a tiny row of (now extended in bits) terraced cottages in the middle of nowhere so that's probably not all that inaccurate... but... there is a pub (not a very nice one) much closer than they seem to think.

Where my paternal grandparents live: 69 out of 100 —  Somewhat Walkable. Hah. It's actually very "walkable" - perhaps Americans don't like walking moderate distances.

Where my maternal grandparents lived: Walk Score: 5 out of 100 —  Car-Dependent. Not entirely unfair, but it's not like you couldn't walk into Wenlock easily if you wanted to.

I can't do where my brother lives because he's moving at the moment and don't entirely know. In Nottingham, though.

Where my sister lives in Cardiff: Walk Score: 95 out of 100 —  Walkers' Paradise. More or less true, I think.

Some places where I lived (I guess) earlier in the year (not that I could walk more than a few yards for much of the time)... one gets 11 out of 100 —  Car-Dependent, the other 58 out of 100 —  Somewhat Walkable. Both are silly, especially the second. It's, um, in a big city that's actually quite easy to walk around for the most part and has a train station (on a line which connects up with New Street Station) like a stones throw away.

[Lunar]

92 - very walkable if you don't occasionally mind being mugged at gunpoint

[Хahar 🤔]

69. Not bad for a suburb.

92 - very walkable if you don't occasionally mind being mugged at gunpoint

lol berkeley

[Sbane]

92 - very walkable if you don't occasionally mind being mugged at gunpoint

Is Berkeley really that dangerous? Do you live on the west side of town or somewhere south and far from campus? I have walked around Berkeley at 2 in the morning many, many times.

[Erc]

Did this in a similar topic last year, but I've since moved....

88/100: Very Walkable.

(There's nothing within 5 minutes, but everything you could ever need within 15.  As it uses as-the-crow-flies, this may exaggerate a bit, as it includes some things on the wrong side of train tracks / a river that would take much longer to get to on foot).

My parents' place in NY:

80/100: Very Walkable (quite impressive for a suburb, though its definition of "walkable" stretches the imagination at times)


Past Residences:

Kensington: 91/100
Chislehurst: 38/100
London (Dulwich): 58/100
Singapore: 37/100
Moraga, CA: 31/100
College: 77/100

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

Home (Kiawah): 5/100
Home 2 (Charleston): 63/100
School (Winston Salem): 32/100

[Lunar]

92 - very walkable if you don't occasionally mind being mugged at gunpoint

Is Berkeley really that dangerous? Do you live on the west side of town or somewhere south and far from campus? I have walked around Berkeley at 2 in the morning many, many times.

I do as well, I work until 2 am/3am several times a week.

But yeah I've known plenty of people who get mugged and I work in a security-ish job where I get to see all of the crime bulletins. 

For a while two years ago we were having like a student die every month.

[opebo]

The family compound - 3
The farm                    - 0, car dependent

Here in Thailand doesn't compute on that thing, but I'd guess its 90+.

[Sbane]

92 - very walkable if you don't occasionally mind being mugged at gunpoint

Is Berkeley really that dangerous? Do you live on the west side of town or somewhere south and far from campus? I have walked around Berkeley at 2 in the morning many, many times.

For a while two years ago we were having like a student die every month.

Ouch. Didn't know about that. And I thought Riverside was unsafe. It probably is more unsafe if you count property crimes but murder is on another level.

[cannonia]

92 - very walkable if you don't occasionally mind being mugged at gunpoint

Is Berkeley really that dangerous? Do you live on the west side of town or somewhere south and far from campus? I have walked around Berkeley at 2 in the morning many, many times.

I visited a shul in Berkeley, and they had a warning note on the inside of the doors to warn congregants that they were entering a dangerous city environment when they left the shul.

On another note, the streets in Berkeley had better be walkable.  Most of them are useless for driving on.

[cannonia]

And my master-planned, supposedly pedestrian-friendly neighborhood in Elk Grove:
Walk Score: 23 out of 100 —  Car-Dependent

[Lunar]

92 - very walkable if you don't occasionally mind being mugged at gunpoint

Is Berkeley really that dangerous? Do you live on the west side of town or somewhere south and far from campus? I have walked around Berkeley at 2 in the morning many, many times.

I visited a shul in Berkeley, and they had a warning note on the inside of the doors to warn congregants that they were entering a dangerous city environment when they left the shul.

On another note, the streets in Berkeley had better be walkable.  Most of them are useless for driving on.

hey, it's not our fault we spent $500k in a failed attempt to save a few trees instead of having functional roads

also, they intentionally made the side roads difficult to navigate so that traffic would stay on the main thoroughfares

[k-onmmunist]

67 out of 100.. Somewhat Walkable

[Хahar 🤔]

And my master-planned, supposedly pedestrian-friendly neighborhood in Elk Grove:
Walk Score: 23 out of 100 —  Car-Dependent

Hah, none of those places in Elk Grove are remotely walkable.

[ag]

typed in my last address in the States. 97. not surprized

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Wow people are talking about Elk Grove on the forum. That's a very very important location for my job.

[Psychic Octopus]

Home-- 32/100

[Sbane]

92 - very walkable if you don't occasionally mind being mugged at gunpoint

Is Berkeley really that dangerous? Do you live on the west side of town or somewhere south and far from campus? I have walked around Berkeley at 2 in the morning many, many times.

I visited a shul in Berkeley, and they had a warning note on the inside of the doors to warn congregants that they were entering a dangerous city environment when they left the shul.

Yeah some areas in Berkeley are pretty damn ghetto. I also looked up the murder rate and it turns out there are only a few murders every year so not sure where Lunar was getting his statistic. But muggings and burglaries are a whole another issue.