What is the Walk Score of Your Portland Home?
Jul 24th, 2007 by Jody McLeod
If you’ve lived in Portland, Oregon for any length of time you most likely already know the “walkability” of your home in relation to nearby stores, restaurants, schools, parks and the like. But what do you do if you are considering a move to a new home and a new neighborhood - maybe even to a new city - and you want to know if walking to a nearby shop or business is possible?
That’s where Walk Score can help. With a few keystrokes it can show you how a particular address rates on a score from 1-100 for it’s walkability. Walk Score uses a patent-pending algorithm to calculate the walkability of an address based on:
- The distance to walkable locations near an address.
- Calculating a score for each of these locations.
- Combining these scores into one easy to read Walk Score.
The results are then displayed on a Google map. Nifty, eh? I will certainly be sharing this site with my out-of-town home buyers. Be patient after entering an address - it takes awhile to calculate and load the data!
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I believe that walk score is cool, but nowadays more and more people prefer to drive cars. Homes are often located in an area where some establishments are easier to get to by car than on foot. I’ve recently found a type of service on drivescore.fizber.com which is called Drive Score. It shows a map of what establishments are in your neighborhood and calculates a Drive Score based on the number of places within a convenient driving distance. It doesn’t mean that drive score is better than walk score – they are equal and both necessary in the modern world!