About Walk Score
“55% of prospective homebuyers want a home with a mix of single-family and other higher density housing, sidewalks, shops, schools, and public transit within walking distance.”
—2004 National Community Preference Survey
Walk Score launched in July of 2007 and over 100,000 people visited the site on launch day. Since then, almost 6 million addresses have been served and Walk Score has been featured in over 500 newspaper articles and 50 TV segments.
Our Mission
The Walk Score mission is to promote walkable neighborhoods. We believe walkable neighborhoods are one of the simplest and most effective solutions to halt climate change, improve our health, and strengthen our communities.
Our vision is for every property listing to read: Beds: 3 Baths: 2 Walk Score: 84. We want walkability and transportation costs to be a key part of choosing where to live.
Our Products
In addition to www.walkscore.com, we provide Walk Score Real Estate Services, which make it easy to integrate Walk Score into your real estate listings.
Advisory Board
“Every realtor in this room should do that [add Walk Score to their listings]. I mean, why not? What a great service they could use!”
—Brad Inman, Inman News
The Walk Score advisory board includes urban planning, environmental and technical experts from institutions such as The Sightline Institute, The Brookings Institution, and Google.
About Front Seat
Walk Score is a project of Front Seat, a civic software company.
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