Walk Grade Widget

Walk Grade measures the reality of the walk, not just the distance: sidewalks, road noise, tree canopy, traffic speed, and every street you actually cross, traced along the real street network for every US neighborhood. The widget is free, always current, and takes one paste.

Built and maintained by the BestNeighborhood data science team.

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Search any US city, town, county, neighborhood, or ZIP code.

Embed code: interactive card

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Both include a credit link to your area’s Walk Grade page. Keep it in place; it is what keeps the widget free.

Example

Every route, walked
Grades trace the actual path to each grocery store, cafe, park, and clinic, along every sidewalk, crossing, and street.
Over 50%
of Americans live in places with Walk Grades between 0 and 10, population-weighted across all US census blocks.
Only 9%
live somewhere scoring above 70. An honest grade has to be able to say most places are car-dependent.

Why Walk Grade, not a straight-line score

It follows the real route

Most walkability scores measure straight-line distance, as if you could walk through buildings and across freeways. Walk Grade traces the walk you would actually take, one destination at a time.

It scores what the walk is like

Did the sidewalk end and leave you in a ditch? Is the route a loud arterial or a quiet tree-lined street? How many roads do you cross, how wide, how fast is traffic? Each one changes the grade.

Destinations have to cluster

Nine destinations in nine directions is not walkability. Walk Grade rewards places where errands sit near each other, so one walk covers several.

Essentials count for more

Grocery stores are paramount; pharmacies and bus stops count more than a hair salon.

Common questions

Is it really free? Yes. The only requirement is the credit link in the embed code.

Does it stay current? The widget renders live from BestNeighborhood data, so when grades refresh, every embed updates itself.

What places are covered? Every US city, town, county, ZIP, and neighborhood.

Can I use it on client or listing pages? Yes, embed it per listing with that address’s neighborhood, the same paste with a different place.