Join Atlanta’s civilian infantry
If you haven’t visited Walk Score yet, maybe you should. The site ranks over 2000 neighborhoods in the 40 largest U.S. cities based on their walkability. Atlanta as a whole placed #22 with 52 (out of 100) points, but individual neighborhoods in the city have higher and lower scores – 51% of Atlantans apparently live in car-dependent neighborhoods.
Walk Score determined that our most walkable neighborhoods are Five Points (which isn’t really residential), Poncey-Highland, and Sweet Auburn. The score is based on proximity of various crucial urban amenities – grocery stores, restaurants, coffee shops, schools, etc. You can type in your address to see your neighborhood’s score and a map of all the useful things you can walk to within a mile.
While the algorithm Walk Score uses isn’t perfect, and they don’t take issues like safety, quality/quantity of sidewalks, or access to public transit into account when indexing locations, it’s still a good starting point if you’re looking to move somewhere intown where a car isn’t necessary.
Previously: We’re so walkable we don’t even know it
