Me too! Do you live in Belltown?

This was posted a while back - I remember I got a 95 (U-District).

I got a 100 - I love New York.

just off 15th avenue. if belltown and cap hill aren't, like 99, what is? what are we missing?

belltown? you don't say. how do you like it?

I live in madrona and got a 57. s'oh well.

I got a 91, but I've never lived anywhere more walkable in my life. I could hardly imagine a more central location in the whole city. What's holdin' my score down?! I want to win this!!!

I guess I can't complain, it's the internet - the site's business is hits, not complete accuracy for its users. I could drive 40 miles to Silicon Valley everyday for work for all it knows. (I don't, but some people on my block do)

Bulllll-shit. I live in the middle of Oxford, one of the most walkable cities in England, and I scored a 36. If it were any more "walkable" here, those health claims they're trying to make would fly straight out the window.

88 on Lower Queen Anne. Woot!

...on second thought, maybe I just forgot to convert from metric units...

86 on the LQA. Also, how is the Space Needle a "celebrity location"?

I'm guessing the scores are calculated based on physical proximity to some services web sponsors. None of the essential businesses in my neighborhood were listed, and some that I've never heard of are.

They should really tie that tool into a better database.

what the non-metric walk score scale? is it, like 7 through 38? is a 36 good?

Yeah, my Tacoma ghetto home got a 77, but how accurate is it, really? The "grocery stores" listed closest to my house include Save-A-Lot, Stop N Mart, and Speed-E Mart. Hello, Walk Score? These are not grocery stores. How about adding a filter that excludes any establishment with hyphens in its name or that abbreviates "and" as "N" or that actually makes the word "Speedy" longer than it is when spelled correctly. To top it off, not on the list is the Safeway that's 2 blocks away.

Though, since I discovered this site, I've been thinking of living a walk-ful life for a week and getting all my needs met by the stores listed on this site. Clothing from Mr. Macs, some pizza-flavored Combos from the EZ Food Sore that's missing a "T", and some books from Lily Pad Antiques (??) - I'll be all set.

Yeah, my Tacoma ghetto home got a 77, but how accurate is it, really? The "grocery stores" listed closest to my house include Save-A-Lot, Stop N Mart, and Speed-E Mart. Hello, Walk Score? These are not grocery stores. How about adding a filter that excludes any establishment with hyphens in its name or that abbreviates "and" as "N" or that actually makes the word "Speedy" longer than it is when spelled correctly. To top it off, not on the list is the Safeway that's 2 blocks away.

Though, since I discovered this site, I've been thinking of living a walk-ful life for a week and getting all my needs met by the stores listed on this site. Clothing from Mr. Macs, some pizza-flavored Combos from the EZ Food Sore that's missing a "T", and some books from Lily Pad Antiques (??) - I'll be all set.

100 First Hill. My old address in San Francisco was a 85.

Ha ha ha, I just did my better half's parents house, THAT YOU CAN'T ACTUALLY WALK TO (it's 14 miles outside town, rural Eastern WA). It still got a 20!

Again, accuracy never makes for a good business model. Broadening your customer base does.

Yee haw, Seattlites can get perfect scores, too. I'm just off the Pike-Pine corridor (on the First Hill side) and I got 100-fraking-percent. Small-scale validation tastes so sweet.

@7: There's got to be something wrong with the "patent-pending system" used to compute walk scores in your town. You got a 36 in city center Oxford? That can't be right. I fiddled around and put in some distinctly non-walk-friendly US addresses I have known. An address in a suburban cul-de-sac over a mile from a grocery store and several miles from pedestrian-friendly shops also received a walk score in the 30s, which I'm sure is quite a different situation than what you've got going on there in Oxford.

@12: If the walk score conversion rate is anything like the currency conversion rate, 36 in British units is probably like 250 in American units (I exaggerate, but we're getting closer every day!).

@17: Maybe their system ignores any establishment whose name begins with "Ye Olde". That would narrow down the field a bit.

55.
That'll happen when you're living in Fargo.

(On the other hand, I haven't had a car here for the 4 years I've been going to school. Looks like if I move to an actual city, I can continue my carefree no car years.)

They keep updating their algorithm. My old place in Portland used to score lower than my current place in Madison Valley but the PDX apartment was much closer to just about every service imaginable. I just checked again and now the Portland score is back at 89, where it should have been all along.

In short, I miss Portland sometimes.

85. Downtown Fremont.

I guess they don't rate bars very highly.

Belltown too. I think we should get 101 for our stumbling distance to Bumbershoot.

Agree with #11. There's a TON of stuff very near me that isn't included in the score, including grocery stores, restaurants, bookstores, bars, coffee shops. I could walk to get nearly anything I want.