Walk Score - How walkable is your house?

[ignatius]

Yet the Plaza and Westport rank near the top of the national list of individual neighborhoods.

http://letsgokc.com/archives/79

http://walkscore.com/rankings/most-walkable-cities.php

Here's the list of other cites.  Don't know why they don't include STL.

But if you look at the top 10 hoods for each city, KC would be in top 15 of that list.

BTW, they've updated the DB as Blanc Burgers and some P&L places are now included.  Downtown needs more neighborhood amenities and retail to get above 90, which should be online by next year.

[dangerboy]

Don't know why they don't include STL.

Is is a rank of the 40 most populous cities.  St. Louis now ranks fifty-something in population.

[Midtownkid]

PStalker, why did you move?  Can you technically still wear your 'suburbia sucks' shirt...hehe

[ignatius]

Number of neighborhoods/districts with score over 85...

NYC 50
San Fran 20
Chicago 14
Seattle 14
DC 12
Philly 10
Portland 10
Milwaukee 10
KC 10
LA 10
Sacremento 9
Denver 8
Baltimore 8
Atlanta 5
San Diego 6
Boston 5?
Detroit 3
Austin 3
Houston 2
Dallas 1
Cleveland 1
San Antonio 1
San Jose 0
Vegas 0
Phoenix 0

http://walkscore.com/rankings/most-walkable-cities.php

Miami, STL and Minneapolis likely have more than 10 hoods with score over 85.  Others?

[PumpkinStalker]

PStalker, why did you move?  Can you technically still wear your 'suburbia sucks' shirt...hehe

Ha, I will still wear it proudly when I'm downtown.  Probably won't see me wearing it around Waldo! 

I have always loved the Tudor style of architecture and have been looking for a house from the 30's for a while, finally found one in good shape that I can afford.  My decision was based solely on my love for this architecture, not for location, schools, walkability, etc.  I'll post a thread with some pictures and documentary in the upcoming weeks!

[Midtownkid]

Cool, hey waldo isn't that bad...it's not Joco.  Were you unsatisfied w/ Founders or just take the opportunity?

[Tom in KC]

91 for 40th and Warwick.  Score!

[mykem]

my new score is 75 here in Grover Beach, ca. I'm six blocks from the beach.

[dangerboy]

Real estate agent Kathleen Brock has started putting walk scores in her listings.  I think this may be the first KC agent to do this... http://kathleenbrock.com

[Midtownkid]

God, housing is so cheap in KC.  I can't believe it!!  Especially that house in Roanoke, it seems to be in such great shape and it costs that!!  In DC it would be 3 or 4 times more expensive atleast!

[dangerboy]

God, housing is so cheap in KC.  I can't believe it!!  Especially that house in Roanoke, it seems to be in such great shape and it costs that!!  In DC it would be 3 or 4 times more expensive atleast!

No surprise there.  DC is one of the most expensive housing markets in the country.

[Midtownkid]

I know, but damn...sometimes I forget how cheap things are in KC 

[ignatius]

According to this site, Westport ranks 10th most walkable neighborhood in US. 

http://www.walkscore.com/rankings/walki ... city.shtml

Old Westport is the #10-ranked neighborhood out of the 2,508 neighborhoods in the Walk Score neighborhood rankings. Only New York and San Francisco have neighborhoods more walkable than Old Westport.

[KCMax]

According to this site, Westport ranks 10th most walkable neighborhood in US. 

http://www.walkscore.com/rankings/walki ... city.shtml

Schools: Akka Karate USA



Westport is pretty walkable right around Westport Road and Pennsylvania, but you go less than a mile in any direction and it becomes very auto-centric.

[dangerboy]

Schools: Akka Karate USA

Hmm.... We also have three public schools, two parochial schools, and two charter schools.

[KCMax]

Hmm.... We also have three public schools, two parochial schools, and two charter schools.

Apparently Akka Karate trumps them all. Also curious Thriftway is listed as the grocery instead of Sunfresh.

[staubio]

Hmm.... We also have three public schools, two parochial schools, and two charter schools.

This just proves how flawed the WalkScore logic is. Yes, Westport has an excellent proximity to most amenities and has better examples than the ones WalkScore uses, but if anyone is deluded enough to think the experience on the street for a pedestrian is one of the best in America, they are crazy.

[Midtownkid]

I agree.  It says only neighborhoods in San Francisco and NYC are more walkable.  Yeah right.  What about places like Washington DC

[jdubwaldo]

Waldo = Suburbia?  Awww, come on now, this isn't fair!  Ok, maybe just a LITTLE tiny bit so, but at least every house on my block doesn't look the same and we have some diversity happening and ties to the city/downtown/blah/blah/etc!. 

[shinatoo]

I live out in the ExUrbs but all summer long I walk across the street and get all of my veg and eggs. If they had fruit, milk and coffee I'd be set.