How walkable is your neighborhood?

[MichaelBates]

Here's an interesting web app that uses Google's mapping service to calculate a walkability score for a given address. The score is based on proximity of stores, services, and parks, among other factors.

http://walkscore.com/index.shtml

Some scores:

Our house (Mayo Meadow): 43
17th & Trenton (Swan Lake): 69
36th & Owasso (Brookside): 74
Tribune Lofts (Brady Village): 66
97th Pl & Hudson: 34
109th & Louisville: 2

[RecycleMichael]

My house got a 34.

I can't walk to many businesses, but my house is also right by the Mingo Creek walking trail. The trail entrance is 50 yards from my front door.

The program gave us a bad score in part because the nearest park was .83 miles away. I would take our pond filled with fish and wide jogging trails over a park any day.

[Double A]

Mine was 69.

[pmcalk]

My neighborhood got a 57.  I think it deserves a little higher.  The number was lower because the nearest grocery store is over a mile.  However, we do have a convenient store just around the corner.  Not some place I would shop regularly, but a great place when making dinner and you realize you need a loaf of bread, milk, or something small like that.  Also, I think that its important to take into account more than just the distance.  It matters whether the distance is pedestrian friendly.  Are there sidewalks on the way?  Is the store/restaurant/bookstore surrounded by a huge parking lot (someplace you are not likely to walk to)?  But it is interesting to compare the differences throughout the city.

[TheArtist]

I got a 63 but the map is waay out dated. Still has Childrens Medical Center by the highway. Lists a restaurant that doesn't exist, No mention of OU Tulsa and many of the new restaurants, bike trail right by my house, etc. Its a neat feature though, thanks for sharing.

[Ed W]

Ours scored a 60, but it's artificially high.  The map shows businesses on the west side of US169 as being within walkable distance.  Sure, they're only 1/4 mile away, but they're across that heavily traveled highway.  Realistically, they're about 1.5 to 2.5 miles away, and most people wouldn't walk that far.  It's an easy 10 minute bike ride, though.

[USRufnex]

My apt south of 41st on Garnett got a 45.

My old stomping grounds in Rogers Park, Chicago got a 69.

I'm not sure about the methodology... I'm never gonna walk much over a half mile to/from anywhere... especially if it looks like it could rain.  When my car broke down and needed to be fixed, was pleasantly surprised that the whole 41st and Garnett area was reasonably walkable... except that the snow trucks clearing the roads made those sidewalks unwalkable...

I find the Tribune Lofts score a little odd... no walkable grocery store... that's kind of a big deal, no?

[inteller]

quote:Originally posted by USRufnex

My apt south of 41st on Garnett got a 45.

My old stomping grounds in Rogers Park, Chicago got a 69.

I'm not sure about the methodology... I'm never gonna walk much over a half mile to/from anywhere... especially if it looks like it could rain.  When my car broke down and needed to be fixed, was pleasantly surprised that the whole 41st and Garnett area was reasonably walkable... except that the snow trucks clearing the roads made those sidewalks unwalkable...

I find the Tribune Lofts score a little odd... no walkable grocery store... that's kind of a big deal, no?

****ty site.  didn't see the aldi's right across the street from me and 'found' a pharmacy that is an open field.  after all that madness I still got a 58.

[booWorld]

Detached single family dwelling unit in Riverview neighborhood = 69

Former apartment (also in Riverview) = 72

Former apartment in Garden City, Kansas = 78

Former home (parents' home) in Independence, Kansas = 60

[waterboy]

That's funny. I got a 62. Mid-Continent Concrete company passes for a hardware store, and we have a new movie theatre...Via Stream Media corporation. A little suspect I think.

[Miss Solemnis]

quote:Originally posted by USRufnex

I find the Tribune Lofts score a little odd... no walkable grocery store... that's kind of a big deal, no?

Oh yeah - the fact that there are no groceries for miles is an annoyance.  I got a 78 and live at 3rd/Cincinnati.  The grocery annoyance certainly isn't big enough to keep me from living here though.  Love, love, love living downtown!

[tulsacyclist]

Oooh.. I got a 12 for our house.

[pmcalk]

quote:Originally posted by waterboy

That's funny. I got a 62. Mid-Continent Concrete company passes for a hardware store, and we have a new movie theatre...Via Stream Media corporation. A little suspect I think.

Hmmmm-I know for a fact we don't live so far apart.  Why did you get five points higher?  And I can't wait to catch the Simpsons at that new movie theater in our neighborhood.

[patric]

My neighborhood scored a 42; a figure inflated by the fact that it shows businesses where there are actually homes.

[OurTulsa]

YO!  I got a 26?!?  And I live in one of the more walkable hoods in this City, they didn't count RiverParks, Woodward Park, or Vetrans.  Didn't catch any of the bars at 18th/Boston or DoubleShot.  

We walk all over this area from Brookside to Utica Sq. to Cherry St. to 18th/Boston to the River and mostly on sidewalks and only scored a 26?  I'm calling BS on that.