A food desert is a neighborhood without access to healthy food.  Why does this matter? Living in a food desert can lead to higher levels of obesity and other diet-related illnesses such as diabetes and heart disease1. Walk Score helps you make more informed decisions about where to live, like finding an apartment within walking […]

It’s great to see more cities adopting plans with goals around access to neighborhood amenities.  For example, Washington DC’s new sustainability plan has a goal of having 75% of residents within a 5 minute walk of healthy food.  But access is only part of the story, depth of choice matters too. In the travel industry,

We’ve been hard at work creating a preview of Street Smart Walk Score—an enhanced version of Walk Score that uses walking distances rather than crow-flies distances to calculate your score. Street Smart Walk Score also looks at the underlying road network to compute the number of intersections per square mile and average block length. These

We’re transparent about how Walk Score works and how it doesn’t work — and you’re vocal about the things you’d like to see us improve! So we’re excited to share a sneak peek at the work we’re doing to address one of our top customer requests: using walking distances rather than crow-flies distances when calculating