Are walkability scores in listings reliable?

[Anonymous]

We are casually house shopping and looking for walkability. Our current house is a very easy walk to metro and lots of other things yet our score is only 48. What gives? Is this really a score of density? What about transit scores?

[Anonymous]

Check walkscore.com's methodology. Ours is in the high 60s but it takes into account things close to you (we get points for being near a "bookstore" since someone sells books out of their house and registered the address.

[Anonymous]

I'd also make sure you're not having things like "stuff on the other side of Route 50" counting towards your score, either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Check walkscore.com's methodology. Ours is in the high 60s but it takes into account things close to you (we get points for being near a "bookstore" since someone sells books out of their house and registered the address.

+1

We are in the mid-60s but live in a very walkable area. Our house is a third of a mile from the edge of the restaurants/shopping so we just miss the quarter mile cutoff for a higher walkability score. We moved from someplace .4 miles away that had a walkscore of 95+ but we still feel like we are almost as walkable as our old place - just a few blocks more than before.