What is your neighborhood's WalkScore?

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http://www.walkscore.com

My address gets an 83, my neighborhood an 85. Pretty accurate. Love the heat maps.

Their criteria is a little misleading though, if you want to be mostly or entirely car-independent Nicollet Island is most certainly NOT in the top 5 neighborhoods in Minneapolis to live in and Cedar-Riverside most certainly isn't unless you live right near the light rail, or plan on never leaving Cedar-Riverside. And Downtown West is most certainly not the most walkable neighborhood unless you can afford to do your day-to-day shopping in downtown.

Loring Park and Lowry Hill East's rankings are dead on though.

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58.  However, their methodology is largely bogus.  Distances are determined as the crow flies, which means a child-care center (classified as educational for some reason) which is .1 mile in a straight line, but well over a mile by street gave me full credit for having a school nearby.  Also, they don't seem to consider having a church within walking distance at all important, but coffee shops are so important they have a category all their own.

Take into account what type of demographic is likely to not own a car and use this site...

However yeah there are some flaws in the methodology. Nicollet Island's high score is a great example, it's full of bars and stores, but it's also quite small, and because the bridges aren't very walk-friendly, you basically have to use a car to be able to leave it and do something like go to a movie. Even the public transit in that area isn't all that great.

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Their definition of supermarket is also pretty horrible. They count the crappy bodega like a minutes walk from my building as a grocery store. The closest real grocery stores (a Whole Foods and a Fairway) aren't really in walking distance.

Yeah for me it counts a Vietnamese grocery store. There is a supermarket that's it OK to walk TO close enough to me, but if you buy any significant number of groceries walking BACK carrying them will not be pleasant.