Walk Score Press Room - Find a Walkable Place to Live

Walk Score Press Room - Find a Walkable Place to Live

Recent Press
April 19, 2011 - Mint
What's Car Ownership Really Costing You?
Our home (on Capitol Hill, Seattle) gets a Walk Score of 97: "Walker's Paradise." Only 9 percent of Seattle residents have a higher rating. Yet we know a few of those people and they still own a couple of cars. Something's wrong with this picture.
April 18, 2011 - USA Today
Just How Green Is Your City?
Chip Giller, founder and president of environmental website Grist, says, "Strong transit systems translate to the top green cities in the country." He also recommends looking up your address at walkscore.com. It will give you a score based on how easy it is to walk to places close to your home.
April 2011 - About.com
Find Your Best Walkable Neighborhood Before You Move
If you're moving to another neighborhood, city or town, it's a good idea to thoroughly research the new area to decide which community might be right for you and your family. This online tool from Walk Score helps you do just that by rating neighborhoods based on their accessibility to city infrastructure, businesses, schools and public transport.
Apr. 5, 2011 - Philadelphia Metro
Forget Driving — Philly Residents Like to Walk
On a scale of 0 to 100, Philadelphia averages a 74 for "walkability," according to WalkScore.com. Not too shabby, considering people who live in walkable areas tend to be happier and healthier, says Josh Herst, CEO of Walk Score.
Jan. 27, 2011 - Grist
Walk Score Gets Some New Street Smarts
Since it was launched nearly four years ago, Walk Score has been gaining popularity as a tool for gauging the walkability of a neighborhood. Real estate companies use it to help market homes. Home-seekers use it to help them figure out whether there are enough supermarkets/cafes/schools/parks within walking distance to make them happy.
Jan. 27, 2011 - Sightline Daily
A Better Way To Measure Walkability
If you're not familiar with Walk Score, you should be. It's become the de facto standard for measuring neighborhood walkability in the US, with both real estate marketers and serious researchers using neighborhood Walk Scores as a gauge of pedestrian friendly municipal design and zoning.
Dec. 15, 2010 - The Atlantic
America's Most Walkable Cities
Walkscore.com, the online group that rates walkable neighborhoods, provides detailed data on walkability for 2,500 cities and 6,000 neighborhoods across the United States.
Dec. 6, 2010 - Planetizen
Walkable Cities, Walkable Neighborhoods
New neighborhood-level data from the walkability rating website Walk Score has broadened the view of what it means to live in a walkable city. This comparison of neighborhood-level data across the U.S. offers a more specific look at which cities are really the most walkable.
Nov. 29, 2010 - AgentGenius
Walk Score adds 2500 more cities, affects real estate industry
Having launched already in 40 cities, major metro areas are used to referring to Walk Scores, and WalkScore.com just announced launching in 2,500 additional cities, bringing 6,000 neighborhoods live for search.
Nov. 22, 2010 - Grist
Find out where your city is most walkable with Walk Score's new heat maps
Today, Walk Score rolled out new heat maps for the 2,500 largest American cities, providing a quick way to get a sense of where cities are most walkable. That could be useful if, say, you're visiting an unfamiliar city on holiday travel and want to burn off some extra stuffing. Or if you're thinking about moving.
Nov. 22, 2010 - Good
Walk Score Ambles into 2,500 New Cities
Walk Score was initially available in 40 U.S. cities, but today it announced a huge new expansion. After getting requests from people in cities like Minneapolis and Pittsburgh who wanted to look up the walkability in neighborhoods in their cities, Walk Score has expanded to cover the 2,500 largest cities.
Nov. 22, 2010 - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Pittsburgh Scores High on Walkscore.com
Thirty-six Pittsburgh neighborhoods rank as a "walker's paradise" or "very walkable" in a national analysis at walkscore.com, a site that today unveils an expanded view of how amenable American cities are to pedestrians.
Sep. 10, 2010 - TreeHugger
Walk Score Adds Transit to its City Rankings
But a good thing just got even better, because Walk Score will now let you track access to transit too, as well as a cost calculator to figure out just how much you'll pay to get around at any particular location.
Aug. 27, 2010 - Chicago Tribune
Transit Score a Change of Pace for Chicago Homebuyers
With its 2-year-old Walk Score product already used by more than 4,000 realty Web sites, Seattle-based software company Front Seat has expanded its data options so Chicago homebuyers can see whether a potential neighborhood is public transit-friendly as well as walkable.
Aug. 22, 2010 - Boston Globe
For Future of the Longfellow, Task Force Crunching the Numbers
Last week, Front Seat launched Transit Score, a related tool that provides 0-to-100 grades measuring how well an address is served by public transportation, for sites in about 30 metropolitan areas, including Boston.
Aug. 18, 2010 - World Changing
Resource: Walkscore Gets Street Smart, Adds a Transit Score, and Calculates Your Commute
They've added a Transit Score function, with public transit data from over 100 transit agencies, that allows you to look up how well serviced your neighborhood is by transit. Now, when you visit WalkScore and type in your address you will get both a 'walk score' and 'transit score' for your location.
Aug. 17, 2010 - USA Today
How Transit-friendly Is Your Home? New Tool Gives Scores
Want to avoid driving everywhere? A free online tool, unveiled Monday, rates U.S. homes for their proximity to public transportation. Transit Score is an expansion of Walk Score, a product by Seattle-based software company Front Seat that rates homes for their walkability.
Aug. 17, 2010 - Inman News
Walk Score Now Rates Public Transit Access
The developers of "Walk Score" -- an online tool for measuring how easy it is to get around a particular neighborhood on foot -- are offering new tools that make it easier for house hunters to analyze public transit options from a given address and estimate their monthly transportation costs.
Aug. 16, 2010 - Grist
Walk Score Team Unveils Transit Score and Two More Apps
Today the same developers release Transit Score, an app that ranks how well-served a location is by buses and rail lines. It measures how far you'd have to walk to a transit stop and how often trains and buses arrive (trains count for more) and assigns a separate 1-100 score.
July 2, 2010 - Wall Street Journal
A Walker's Guide to Home Buying
The most commonly used one is Walk Score, started in 2007 by Seattle software company Front Seat. The site saw visits in May more than double from year-earlier levels, to 938,000, according to comScore Inc., which measures online audiences. Ads on real-estate websites now include Walk Scores, and some 4,000 websites now link to the site's map, where users can input an address and get a score.
June 24, 2010 - New York Times
Watery Future for the City of Light
A 2009 study by Walkscore, a Web site that rates neighborhoods in terms of pedestrian access, evaluated the effect of "walkability" on U.S. housing prices, using 95,000 real estate transactions.
May 28, 2010 - Marketplace
How Walkable Is Your Neighborhood?
One software company is trying to to quantify how walking-friendly an area is and make it a more visible factor for people shopping for a home.
Mar. 20, 2010 - Washington Post
Web Sites Offer Lifestyle-Oriented Home Searches
"If you can't accomplish your daily errands on foot, that means you're going to be in your car a lot," said Matt Lerner, chief technical officer of Seattle-based Front Seat, Walk Score's parent company.
Mar. 9, 2010 - Wall Street Journal
Home Buyers Check Out Apps
The free Walk Score app, from Front Seat LLC in Seattle, rates neighborhoods based on the ease of walking to shops, restaurants and other public places.
Feb. 19, 2010 - New York Times
Web Sites Offer Lifestyle-Oriented Home Searches
One neighborhood feature that's perhaps a little easier to quantify is how easy it is to get around without a car, the so-called walkability factor. The Web site Walkscore.com has all but cornered the market with an algorithm of its own that promises to determine a property's walkability.
Feb. 18, 2010 - Seattle Post Intelligencer
Walk Score on Water: Seattle Waterfront Neighborhoods' Walkability
I had a chance to sit down with the folks at Walk Score last week, and if you haven't heard of Walk Score yet, you probably will soon. The Seattle-based company has developed a system for scoring the walkability of cities and neighborhoods around the country.
Feb. 16, 2010 - Treehugger.com
The End of the Cul-de-Sac is Nigh
The rise of New Urbanism, the use of Walkscore as a planning tool and the end of oil all mean the end of the cul-de-sac is nigh.
Feb. 11, 2010 - Edmonton Journal
Walking a Factor in Rating Best Neighbourhood
The idea behind the site and the company, Walk Score, which was launched in July 2007, is to promote walkable neighbourhoods as "one of the simplest and most effective solutions to halt climate change, improve our health and strengthen our communities."
Jan. 21, 2010 - 1360 WCHL - Chapel Hill
Do You Live In A 'Walkable' Area
Maybe you're looking for a new apartment complex. Perhaps you're shopping a few houses in an area you're not familiar with. Or maybe you just want to see how easy it is to access your daily errands where you live now. In any case, you can go to walkscore.com to find out about the area.
Jan. 20, 2010 - San Francisco Chronicle
There's Walkability and Then There's Deep Walkability
We have written before about the issue of walkability -- how becoming less car-dependent seems advisable and how home listings are increasingly including Walk Scores (provided by the eponymous company) to suggest how easy it is to walk to local transit and stores from the home's address.
Jan. 15, 2010 - USA Today
Green Home Award Winners Flunk Walkability Test
Finding a walkable neighborhood is one of the most important steps to building an eco-friendly home, for obvious reasons: It cuts down on how much you need to drive... Benfield looked at the Walk Score of each and found that only one of the six non-military projects got a score higher than 50.
Jan. 15, 2010 - Inman News
Wanted: Walkable Apartments
Rental listings search site MyNewPlace and Walk Score have teamed up to offer a free embeddable search widget.
Jan. 13, 2010 - Treehugger.com
LEED Home Award Winners are Walkscore FAIL
Walkscore is a terrific tool; the New York Times just wrote about how it is a good indicator of real estate value. TreeHugger has noted that walkable cities are the fittest, and that "a walkable community promotes better health, reduction in greenhouse gases, more transportation options, increased social capital and stronger local businesses."
Jan. 11, 2010 - Switchboard
LEED Awards Show Why ‘Green’ Criteria Need Reform
Of the six non-military winners, only one is in what the popular rating service Walk Score considers to be a walkable environment.
Jan. 9, 2010 - New York Times
Street Corners vs. Cul de Sacs
The study found that houses with above-average Walk Scores commanded a premium. It was as much as $30,000 in cities like Charlotte, N.C., Chicago, Sacramento and San Francisco, wrote Joe Cortright, the study's author and an economist at Impresa, a consulting firm in Portland, Ore.
Dec. 30, 2009 - Illinois Times
Why Did The Children Not Cross The Road?
Just for fun - well, to prove a point - I visited the Web site of Walk Score (www.walkscore.com/) which directs house hunters and renters to walkable neighborhoods by calculating their walkability on a scale of 1-100.
Dec. 17, 2009 - Switchboard
How Walkable Neighborhoods Increase Home Values, Illustrated
Examining data from 98,000 home sales in 15 metropolitan areas, and controlling for other relevant factors, each increase of one point on Walk Score’s walkability scale raises home values by $700 to $3000.
Dec. 8, 2009 - CBS 2 - Los Angeles
Clearing Up Los Angeles Traffic Myths
"At least according to WalkScore, which is an interesting web site and people should check it out, and it ranks the top cities in terms of their walk ability. And, believe it or not, L.A. ranks 9th out of the top 40 cities in terms of walk ability," according to Morris.
Nov. 25, 2009 - The Independent
House-hunting Goes Hi-tech
This is accompanied by another app, Walk Score, which is like Mapumental but based on the idea of living within walking distance of everything you need.
Nov. 10, 2009 - Mother Nature Network
Walk Score Now Showing Transit Data
The leading provider of walkability ratings is now incorporating buses, subways, and other forms of mass transit when calculating neighborhood scores.
Nov. 6, 2009 - NRDC - Switchboard
Walk Score Incorporates Transit, Real Estate Industry Takes Note
Walk Score keeps getting better, and it was already very good. With assistance from the Rockefeller Foundation, the locational rating system has now incorporated transit service data from 40 metro regions into its service, so that its maps reflect this key measure of urbanity.
Nov. 5, 2009 - Sightline Daily
Walk Score Adds Transit
Walk Score, which has become the most widely-used measure of pedestrian friendly neighborhoods in North America, has added a new trick: they're now incorporating transit data into their walkability ratings. So in addition to stores, restaurants, parks, and the like, Walk Score now treats nearby bus stops and rail stations as key ingredients of a walkable neighborhood.
Nov. 5, 2009 - San Francisco Chronicle
Walk Score Adds Public Transit Information To Its Data Mix
Walk Score, the popular online tool used by home-seekers and real-estate brokers to measure how "walkable" a specific address is, has today added public transit to its mix.
Nov. 5, 2009 - Zip Realty
Detailed Public Transit Info From Walkscore Now On ZipRealty.com
Earlier today, Walkscore, one of our favorite partners, announced that they now offer detailed public transit information to go along with their highly acclaimed Walkscore.
Oct. 29, 2009 - Post-Standard-Syracuse
Syracuse Scores High In Walkability -- So Why Don't We Walk More?
"The cities at the top of the Walk Score rankings have density, mixed use, transit, short blocks. ... Most importantly, these cities have lots of destinations near each address, which is the strongest indicator of whether people walk," says walkscore.com.
Oct. 26, 2009 - TechFlash
Zillow's Top Five Trick-Or-Treat Neighborhoods In Seattle
However, to provide a more holistic approach to Halloween trick-or-treating, the Zillow Trick-or-Treat Housing Index was calculated using four equally weighted data variables: Zillow Home Value Index, population density, Walk Score, and local crime data.
Oct. 14, 2009 - San Francisco Chronicle
Newly Listed Mega Home In Novato Sends Mixed Messages
Despite the latter (a reliance on cars not being the most eco-friendly concept), the home boasts a Marin County Green Building rating. This is for the construction and finishes, one assumes -- which do look very lovely -- not the home's uninspiring 8/100 Walk Score.
Oct. 9, 2009 - Sustainable Industries
Home Values Rise In Dense Neighborhoods
A couple of large national brokerages also use Walkscores. ZipRealty, based in Emeryville, Calif., introduced the feature to its online listings in the summer of 2008. It’s been a useful tool for customers...
Oct. 8, 2009 - Sightline Daily
Two Big Steps For Walkability
Walk Score -- which has become North America's most prevalent gauge of neighborhood walkability -- is going open source, so that anyone can see how their rankings work and (just as importantly) suggest improvements.
Oct. 6, 2009 - TechFlash
Walk Score Gets Rockefeller Grant
The team behind Walk Score, the free service that calculates neighborhood walkability, has been awarded a Rockefeller grant to add some new data to the tool, including public transit options, and transportation costs and greenhouse gas emissions.
Sep. 30, 2009 - Examiner.com
San Francisco's Walkscore
Walkscore is a website that measures a neighborhood's 'walkability.' It's used frequently by home shoppers who can type in a property address and immediately get a score between one and one hundred on how easy it is to get around by foot.
Sep. 25, 2009 - Washington Times
Special Feature: Urban Living, Walkable Neighborhoods Appeal To Buyers
Walk Score (www.walkscore.com) is a Web site that rates neighborhoods based on their "walkable" features. Since the site was launched in July 27, more than 6 million addresses have been searched.
Sep. 23, 2009 - The Oregonian
Portland Realtor Turns To Bike Sales
Cortright analyzed home sales in 15 major housing markets and compared neighborhood walkability levels set by Web-based service Walk Score. In 13 of those markets, higher walkability scores were directly linked to higher home values.
Sep. 21, 2009 - KOMO - Seattle
Plan: Seattle Will Soon Be Made For Walking
Seattle currently ranks sixth on Walk Score's list of most walkable cities, but perhaps not for long. The Seattle City Council has passed a new master plan in hopes of reaching the top stop in the country.
Sep. 15, 2009 - Slate
Could iPhone Apps Change The Way We Travel?
It's fun to have WalkScore tell you the walkability of the place you're in at the moment; for extra fun, you can run Zillow to confirm the link between walkability and higher real-estate prices.
Sep. 3, 2009 - Valuation Review
New Analysis Says Walking Distances Add Value To Properties
A new report has shown that homes in more walkable neighborhoods have higher values than similar homes in less-walkable neighborhoods.
Sep. 3, 2009 - Business Gazette
Residents Use Web Site To Gauge Ease Of Traveling By Foot
Mische is one of many residents who depend on Greenbelt's walkability, which according to www.walkscore.com, varies greatly between the different sections of the city.
Sep. 2, 2009 - Montgomery Advertiser
Report: Walkable Communities May Have Positive Effect On Health, Home Prices
By the Walk Score measure, walkability is a direct function of how many destinations are located within a short distance (generally between one-quarter mile and one mile of a home).
Aug. 30, 2009 - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
The Real Reasons Pittsburgh Is The Most Livable City
Walkable neighborhoods. According to Walkscore.com, Pittsburgh has a number of neighborhoods that qualify as a "Walker's Paradise," including Downtown, South Side, Squirrel Hill, Bloomfield and Aspinwall.
Aug. 29, 2009 - Lake County News-Sun
Walkability Factor Means Worth Of Up To 15% More
According to "Walking the Walk, How Walkability Raises Home Values in U.S. Cities," just one more point on a home's WalkScore (computed by walkscore.com ) adds an estimated $5,260 to the price of a Chicago area home's value.
Aug. 28, 2009 - Boston Globe
The Value Of The Footpath
As a city girl, I traded increased density for walkability. My house has a walkability score of 92 percent. I find it a perk to living here. I think it has value.
Aug. 27, 2009 - Good
How A Neighborhood's Walkability Can Increase Property Values
The report, "Walking the Walk: How Walkability Raises Housing Values in U.S. Cities" by Portland economist Joseph Cortright, analyzed data from 94,000 real estate transactions in 15 major markets and found that in 13 of the 15 markets, higher levels of walkability, as measured by Walk Score, were directly linked to higher home values.
Aug. 24, 2009 - Examiner.com
Walkable Neighborhoods Have Higher Land Values
The Walk Score index was developed by Front Seat to shed light on the urban characteristics that facilitate walkability. The Walk Score data has been integrated into several realty websites as a data point listed among real estate listings.
Aug. 22, 2009 - CNN.com
Putting A Price On Walkability
The study, conducted by a group called CEOs for Cities, looked at 90,000 homes in 15 different markets in the US, mashing up home sales data with "walkability" scores from WalkScore.com.
Aug. 22, 2009 - Realtor Magazine
Study Finds Connection Between Neighborhood Walkability And Home Values
The report scored a neighborhood's walkability by measuring the distance and variety of typical household services, products, and activities. "Walk Scores" from 0-100 were assigned to each area.
Aug. 22, 2009 - RIS Media
Homes In Walkable Neighborhoods Sell For More, Study Finds
Places with higher Walk Scores also often have better mass transit services, according to the report. "I don't know of any other study that has put a dollar value on walkability," he said.
Aug. 21, 2009 - Modesto Bee
Walkable Areas Cost More, Says Research
Matt Lerner, chief technology officer of Front Seat, the software company behind Walk Score, said his firm emphasizes how walking rather than driving can play a part in preventing global warming and how people who live in walkable areas weigh 7 pounds less, on average, than those who don't.
Aug. 21, 2009 - MSN.com
Walk Your Way To Higher Home Values
Homes located within walking distance of amenities such as schools, parks and shopping aren't only more convenient for their owners, often they're also worth more than homes in neighborhoods where driving is the rule, according to a new study.
Aug. 20, 2009 - Smart Growth America
Walkability Is Great. But Is It Valuable?
The massive popularity of Walk Score - the site that measures and quantifies a home or business' walkability - has shown that walkability is a useful selling point in real estate. But until now, we never knew how quite how much people value walkability.
Aug. 18, 2009 - World Changing
Walkable Neighborhoods Are Worth More
Now, the good folks at CEOs for Cities have taken it on themselves to ask -- does Walk Score mean anything for real estate values? Are people really willing to pay more to live in a place where they can do daily errands on foot, rather than in a car?
Aug. 18, 2009 - Los Angeles Times
When It Comes To Real Estate, Walkability Pays
A new survey parsed the results of the sales of 90,000 homes in 15 markets nationwide and found that almost everywhere, people value walkable neighborhoods -- to the tune of $4,000 to $34,000. That's how much more people paid for houses within neighborhoods with high Walk Scores than they did for comparable homes in less walkable neighborhoods.
Aug. 18, 2009 - Market Watch
Walk Appeal?
It calculated walkability of the homes using the Walk Score algorithm, which grades addresses based on amenities that are nearby, from restaurants and coffee shops to parks and libraries.
Aug. 18, 2009 - Grist
Would You Pay More For Walkability? Should You?
Using data from Walk Score, the study found that houses in hoods with above average walkability commanded $4,000 to $34,000 more than those in hoods with average walkability.
Aug. 18, 2009 - Sightline Daily
Walkable Neighborhoods Are Worth More
You may have already heard of Walk Score -- an endlessly entertaining internet tool that lets people discover how pedestrian-friendly their neighborhood is. Walk Score ranks neighborhood "walkability" based on the mix of stores and services that are within walking distance of any home in North America.
Aug. 18, 2009 - Inman News
Walkable Neighborhoods Also Bankable
Homes in neighborhoods where goods, services and fun things to do are located within walking distance can command a price premium of $4,000 to $34,000 over otherwise similar homes in less walkable areas, according to an analysis of recent home sales.
Aug. 12, 2009 - Huffington Post
Want To See Neighborhoods That Beat The Bust? Take A Walk
Christopher Leinberger, a fellow at the Brookings Institution and a director of Walkscore's board, noted that long-term trends favor these neighborhoods because "Millenials," or the children of baby boomers, prefer them over suburbs.
Aug. 9, 2009 - Examiner.com
Downtown Portland Scores High On Walkability
If you've ever wondered what the most walkable neighborhoods of a city are, check out Walkscore.com, a website that maps out cities, neighborhoods and even specific addresses and rates them on 'walkability' out of 100 points.
Aug. 7, 2009 - Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Texas & Pacific Lofts
With T&P downtown and next to the commuter train station, it means less driving and more walking. (Downtown is considered a very walkable part of Fort Worth per www.walkscore.com; scoring 83 out of 100).
Aug. 4, 2009 - Switchboard
Walk Score Is Helping Homebuyers Find Convenient Locations!
The people at Walk Score provide helpful tools to real estate firms, including an "API" and a "tile" that, I think, incorporate the Walk Score database into maps that prospective buyers (or renters) can manipulate to see both the locations of neighborhood amenities and the precise locations of the firms' houses for sale.
Aug. 3, 2009 - Green Energy News
Buy Or Build Your Dream Green Home Now
The real estate search website Zillow includes a Walk Score (tm) rating for many of the listed properties. According to that service, "Walk Score helps people find walkable places to live."
July 30, 2009 - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Web Site Rates Neighborhoods According To 'Walkability'
Matt Lerner, chief technology officer for Front Seat Software, based in Seattle, thinks so. His web site, WalkScore.com, calculates the exact walkability from any specified place.
July 24, 2009 - San Francisco Chronicle
As Gas Prices Soar, Market For Some Suburban Homes Will Disappear
The good news is San Francisco scores well in this regard: the city boasts 34 walkable neighborhoods according to Walk Score.
July 20, 2009 - The Faster Times
Slow Shuffle To A Less Flabby America
I know walking can power economic activity, because an outfit called WalkScore scored nationwide press this month by ranking how easy neighborhoods around the USA seem to pedestrians and walking is basic to our healthcare and energy messes.
July 20, 2009 - Smart Growth America
Real Estate Service Finds Walkable, Transit-accessible Homes
Walk Score, featured here regularly, was added as a data point to Zillow's services, and in February, was added to a new service called Estately.com.
July 17, 2009 - Florida Times-Union
Car Free In The Least Walkable City In USA
Walkscore.com is a fantastic way to find what shops and businesses you can comfortably walk to from your home.
July 17, 2009 - ABC - 7 - San Francisco
Americans Shifting From Suburbs To Cities
Walkscore lists multiple advantages from losing weight, because you walk more, to spending less money on gas or a car, because you may not need to own one.
July 15, 2009 - Denver Daily News
New Zoning Code Should OK Granny Flats In Berkeley
According to WalkScore.com, my little Berkeley shack has a "walk score" of 92 ... making it a "walkers' paradise."
July 13, 2009 - NBC - Los Angeles
Inside West LA's TLofts Wrapping Up Construction
WalkScore.com, a website that rates addresses on their distance from an assortment of amenities, gave TLofts a 95, so the story holds up.
July 10, 2009 - How We Drive
The Mile And A Half Plume
But this led me to wonder: Has anyone done a "PollutionScore" application, similar to WalkScore? ... within my general neighborhood, which is close to 100 on the WalkScore, the number drops as one heads towards the elevated section of the BQE and the large traffic artery of Hamilton Avenue.
July 8, 2009 - Puget Sound Business Journal
Seattle Still America's Sixth-best City For Walking
The website ranked more than 2,500 U.S. neighborhoods on a scale of 0 to 100. Areas were ranked based on their closeness to grocery stores, restaurants, parks, schools, libraries, bars and other services.
July 8, 2009 - Denver Business Journal
Denver Ranked America's 10th Most Walkable City
WalkScore.com, a website devoted to promoting walkable neighborhoods, said it evaluated 2,508 neighborhoods to rank the 40 largest U.S. cities.
July 8, 2009 - Examiner.com
Thinking Of Walking To Work In Atlanta? Think Again!
The first-of-its-kind "walkabilty" rankings, put together by Walkscore.com, grade the 40 largest cities in the country and determine how "walkable" they are.
July 8, 2009 - Portland Business Journal
Study: Portland A Very Walkable City
Portland is among the top 10 walkable cities in the nation, according to a Web site that measures walkability.
June 3, 2009 - Wall Street Journal
"The Gift Of Travel Time:" When A Commute Is Actually Enjoyable
On top of that, my downtown Jersey City neighborhood has a 94 "walk score" on the online real estate information provider Zillow - making it a solid walker's paradise.
May 26, 2009 - NBC - Bay Area
Your New Condo Buddy Is Here
Start by studying CD's Gmap of on-the-market properties, which upon mouse-hovering'll pop up exterior snap shot/price range/# of units; click "view full details" for a Google Street View, a Walk Score, and a physical/historical building description.
May 10, 2009 - Wall Street Journal
Deals on Travel Abroad
Walkscore.com can tell you how centrally located a hotel or house is to businesses and attractions in cities in the U.S. and Europe. It also ranks America's most walkable cities.
May 2, 2009 - Vancouver Sun
'Walk score' is a new way to rate a neighbourhood
According to a recent article in the Boston Globe, walkability has become the new buzzword in the American real estate industry. U.S.-focused sites such as Zillow.com, ZipRealty.com and Postlets.com are now providing prospective buyers with a "walk score" for each listed property.
Apr. 18, 2009 - GOOD Magazine
Walk On
Walking is arguably the most efficient mode of transportation, and you don t need petroleum to power it; some French fries will do. But disturbingly few of us take advantage of our built-in bipedal locomotion function. Are we to blame, or is it our environment? A website called Walk Score aims to answer that question
Apr. 14, 2009 - View from the Bay - ABC 7, San Francisco
Traveling with kids made easy
Tips for travel with kids: #8 Pick a hotel that is central to everything - you can check this out on walkscore.com.
Apr. 10, 2009 - The Wall Street Journal
'Walkable' Communities Regain Favor
Agents say it's easier these days to get buyers for homes that are located in neighborhoods close to shops and services. Their pitch: Owners can save money by walking to mass transit, and using less gas when running errands.
Apr. 5, 2009 - Boston Globe - Boston, MA
Walk this Way
Walkability has become a buzzword in real estate, as environmentalists and "green" planners advocate compact residential neighborhoods near businesses and public transportation. And some realtors say in this difficult market, houses with high walkability scores are easier to sell.
Mar. 30, 2009 - NBC Los Angeles
LA Makes "Walking Cities" List (But Prepare for Surprise)
As it turns out, people do walk in LA, or at least parts of it, as well as Long Beach... think of Sunset Junction, Ventura around Laurel Canyon, Spring Street downtown, Fairfax's Little Ethiopia... you just can't argue that there are about 300 or so great areas to get out and stride about.
Mar. 23, 2009 - Examiner.com
Denver ranks #11 in Walkability
According to Walkscore.com, 43% of Denver residents have a Walk Score of 70 or above. 81% have a Walk Score of at least 50 and only 19% live in car-dependent neighborhoods.
Mar. 20, 2009 - Freakonomics Blog - New York Times
What's Your Walk Score?
In all, the walk scores are pretty much what you'd intuitively expect, providing a degree of confidence the site is getting it right.
Mar. 17, 2009 - WTHR - Indianapolis
Indy Ranks Low In 'Walkability' Among Major Cities
Walkscore.com ranks Indy 37th, just above Charlotte, Nashville and Jacksonville.
Feb. 27, 2009 - Seattle Post Intelligencer
Washington Century: Biker Place
Walk Score already ranks Seattle sixth best in walkability. An upcoming pedestrian master plan should help on everything from safety to transit connections.
Feb. 14, 2009 - Times - Picayune
New Orleans Neighborhoods Improve On The Walkability Index
Billed as the planet's first "large-scale, public-access walkability index," www.walkscore.com rates addresses across the country for their proximity to services.
Feb. 4, 2009 - AmericanProgress.org
Discover Walkable Homes
And the list changes again when we look through a walkability lens, as WalkScore.com does. The location of nearby stores, restaurants, schools, parks, workplaces, and transit hubs makes some cities better than others for not having a car.
Feb. 1, 2009 - Examiner.com
Discover Walkable Homes
REColorado, Metrolist's consumer access website, has teamed with Walk Score, a project of Seattle based Front Seat, to provide walkable ratings for every home listed.
Jan. 8, 2009 - Inman News
Listings To Get Walkability Ratings
Real estate Web sites with more than 80 million online listings - including Zillow.com, ZipRealty.com and Postlets.com - will provide a "Walk Score" with each property using an application that automatically scores the walkability of each home's surrounding neighborhood.
Jan. 7, 2009 - Press Release
Walk Score Announces Real Estate Partners At Inman Real Estate Connect
Front Seat, the civic software company that operates walkability site www.walkscore.com, today announced partnerships with real estate websites that will add Walk Score to millions of property listings. Zillow.com, ZipRealty.com, Postlets.com, REcolorado.com, ColoProperty.com, and others will show Walk Scores on all of their listings, a combined total of over 85 million properties.
December, 2008 - Planning
Brave New Nonmotorized World
One sign of walking's popularity is the success of walkscore.com, a new website that calculates the walkability of any address you type in. Some real estate firms now trumpet the high walk scores of their properties for sale.
Nov. 16th, 2008 - Columbus Dispatch
Home Is Where The Businesses Are
Columbus ranks 27th for walkability among the country's 40 largest cities, according to Walk Score. That's a Web site, www.walkscore.com, where you can plug in your address and gauge how car-dependent your neighborhood is...
Nov. 12th, 2008 - World Changing
Walk Score To Obama: Here's What You Should Do About Cities
The team at WalkScore just launched this new site, where people can suggest - and vote on - policy priorities for Obama's proposed Office of Urban Policy.
Oct. 15th, 2008 - Chicago Tribune
Chicago's Most Walkable Neighborhoods
Magazines like to call Chicago a fat and stressed out city. But there's hope for us. We're also one of the most walkable cities in the country, according to the creators of the Walk Score...
Oct. 1st, 2008 - East Valley Tribune
Web Site Rates E.V. Cities For Ease Of Strolling
If walking is a cause, Matt Lerner is a convert. "I live in a very walkable neighborhood, and quality of life is just better when you can do some errands on foot," the Seattle software designer said.
Sep. 18th, 2008 - New York Observer
You're Very Walkable, New York. So What?
According to Christopher Leinberger, a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution and a member of Walk Score's advisory board, square footage in walkable urban neighborhoods goes for between 40 and 200 percent more than in comparable drivable suburban areas.
Sep. 16th, 2008 - Examiner.com
How Walkable Is Your Neighborhood?
A tool for realtors and prospective home buyers or renters, the Walk Score website provides a rating scale of neighborhood walkability, based on the proximity, plentitude and variety of amenities.
Sep. 14th, 2008 - Chicago Daily Herald
How Walkable Is Your Neighborhood?
How walkable is my community? I'm so glad you asked. Thanks to a tip from the Metropolitan Planning Council, I've been clicking away on a Web site called "Walk Score."
Sep. 11th, 2008 - The Calgary Herald
Calgary May Not Be Canada's Culture Capital, But It's Getting There
Finding out how walkable -- or pedestrian unfriendly -- Calgary is, doesn't even require lacing up your hiking boots. It's as easy as letting one's fingers do the walking at walkscore.com...
Sep. 5th, 2008 - L.A. Times
Walkable Neighborhoods Of L.A. And Long Beach
So many promising-sounding websites fail to deliver useful information, but you can take the recommendation of Inman News that this is a "cool tool" to the bank.
Sep. 5th, 2008 - Inman News
Cool Real Estate Web Tools
At Real Estate Connect, Brian Boero, Dustin Luther and Kelly Roark outlined 90 different ways you can use technology to improve your business. Today's column hits the highlights.
Aug. 27th, 2008 - CNN (Video)
Neighborhood 'Walk-ability'
Saving energy and cutting pollution by walking gets easier with a Web site that rates neighborhoods for pedestrians.
Aug. 27th, 2008 - Chicago Journal
What's Your Neighborhood's Walk Score?
"With people being more interested in living in place where they can replace their car trips, [the Walk Score] is definitely a selling point for people trying to promote the neighborhood," Burrell-Booth said.
Aug. 8th, 2008 - N.Y. Times
How Walkable Is Your Neighborhood?
Looking for a place to live in an unfamiliar neighborhood is one thing. But knowing what those neighborhoods have to offer - or what they are lacking - could make the process much easier.
Aug. 1st, 2008 - Florida Times Union
City's Not Made For Walkin'
Grab a bike helmet on the way out the door to work. Lace up a pair of sneakers to run errands. Put away a set of car keys - and don't touch them for a week. Believe it or not, it can happen in Jacksonville.
July 23rd, 2008 - U.S. News and World Report
Google Maps Adds Walking Directions
The most walkable? San Francisco, considered a "walker's paradise." New York, Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, Seattle...
July 22nd, 2008 - ABC-7 Chicago
Chicago: One Of The Most Walkable US Cities
Walkscore.com rates locations based on proximity to amenities such as schools, workplaces, supermarkets, parks and public spaces.
July 21st, 2008 - U.S.A. Today
Site Makes Strides To Score Walkable Cities
Chang, her husband and two children found a house closer to many services they need by using Walk Score.
July 20th, 2008 - Boston Globe
Feet Give The Best, Cheapest Mileage
Boston is a remarkably good walking city. It ranked third this week in yet another national walkability poll, this one based on the proximity of its neighborhoods to stores and other amenities.
July 18th, 2008 - Treehugger.com
Walk Score Ranks The Top 10 Most Walkable Cities In The U.S.
Walk Score, devoted to helping you find more walkable places to live based on a patented algorithm that enables them to compute a walkability score based on the distance to a wide range of shops, necessities and attractions has...
July 18th, 2008 - The Oregonian
Walkable Portland Is No. 10
Portland soars in new rankings from Walk Score, an online tool designed to help house and apartment hunters find walkable neighborhoods.
July 18th, 2008 - The Daily Texan
Walk Score Includes Austin In Nation's 40 Most 'Walkable' Cities
Walk Score developed a computer algorithm to measure walkability, which incorporates information from Google AJAX Search API, the 2000 U.S. Census and Zillow, an online real estate service that lists neighborhood boundaries.
July 17th, 2008 - Wall Street Journal
How Walkable Is Your Neighborhood?
Walk Score's admirably detailed methodology statements explain how the scores work and how they don't. Each address gets points for amenities...
July 17th, 2008 - Cleveland Plain Dealer
How Walk Score Works
On the Internet, go to walkscore.com. Type in your address, and the Web site maps schools, libraries, stores, restaurants, parks and services within a 1-mile radius, otherwise known as your "walkshed."
July 17th, 2008 - San Francisco Chronicle
S.F. A Step Ahead As Most 'Walkable' U.S. City
The city by the bay is the most "walkable" in the nation, according to rankings set for release today by WalkScore.com, a service designed to help those seeking a less automobile-dependent life. The distinction encompasses a host of environmental, health and economic advantages.
July 17th, 2008 - MSN.com
America's Most Walkable Big Cities
The survey was the brainchild of Seattle software company Front Seat through its year-old site Walk Score, which helps users locate homes or apartments in walkable neighborhoods.
July 17th, 2008 - Market Watch
Top 10 'Walkable' Cities Have A Leg Up With Gas At $4 A Gallon
The desire of Americans to be less car-dependent is leading real estate agents and developers to point their clients to sites such as Walk Score...
July 17th, 2008 - Inman News
L.A. Among Most Walkable Major Cities?
Walk Score seeks to promote walkable communities by helping guide the decisions of house and apartment hunters. Thanks to higher gas prices and word of mouth, the site has seen a threefold increase in traffic this year.
July 17th, 2008 - ABC News
Top 10 Walkable Cities
Of 40 major cities, neighbors in San Francisco -- especially those in Chinatown, the Financial District and Downtown -- are most able to get to bars, grocery stores, shops and restaurants without getting in the car, according to ratings released June 17, 2008 by Walkscore.com.
June 25th, 2008 - Inman News
Gas Prices Pique Interest In Walk Score
Front Seat is making a Walk Score tile available to real estate professionals -- or anybody else who wants to embed the tool in their Web sites...
June 13th, 2008 - Zillow.com
How Walkable Is Your Neighborhood?
Seattle gets a 72 (out of 100) in walkability and my home gets a 78 out of 100, which sounds about right since one of my criteria in buying a home was to make sure it was near my daughter's school, park, and stores.
June 12th, 2008 - Seattle P.I.
Site Ranks Walkability Of Seattle Neighborhoods
Arbeit found his ideal home after typing in the address of a Ballard townhouse for rent. The computer spat out a perfect Walk Score of 100.
June 12th, 2008 - KING 5 (Video)
Web Site Scores 'Walkability' Of Seattle Neighborhoods
Seattle for sale signs may read 3 bedroom, 2 bath, walkability rating of 80. A new website ranks Seattle's most walkable neighborhoods and hopes to make walkability a new real estate buzz word.
June 6th, 2008 - CBS 5
Website Determines Walkable Bay Area Neighborhoods
The website walkscore.com will help you determine just what your lifestyle will be in your new home, before you buy it.
April 20th, 2008 - N.Y. Times
The Green Issue: Act
Last summer, a trio of Seattle software developers started walkscore.com, which calculates the number of potential destinations within walking distance of any given address and then produces a rating.