Serving 4 Million+ Scores Daily

Here are some fun facts from a remarkable 2011:

• Launched the world’s first apartment search by commute time
• 10,000+ sites using our Neighborhood Map
• 100 million views of the Neighborhood Map
• Showing 4 million+ scores per day
• Ranked 2,500 U.S. cities on walkability
• And launched the Neighborhood Flyer, Commute Reports, mobile sites, and too many other features to count.

 

Matt Lerner Named 100 Most Influential People in Real Estate

Matt Named One of the 100 Most Influential People in Real Estate

We were honored that our co-founder and CTO Matt Lerner was named one of the 100 most influential people in real estate by Inman News.

Happy New Year From Walk Score!

Try it out! Just search for your favorite neighborhood, like French Quarter, New Orleans. Once in “neighborhood mode” you can mouse over the map and click the neighborhood outline to add or remove it to your search area.

There’s also a “Neighborhoods” menu option, so you can enable ‘hoods at any point in an apartment search and view a list of neighborhood names to choose from.

Want to see our new neighborhood search in action? Watch this video:

Search by Multiple Commute Times

Just six weeks ago we launched apartment search by commute time. Now we’ve added the ability to search by multiple commutes.

Let’s say you bike to work downtown and your spouse or roommate takes the bus to school.  Walk Score finds apartments that optimize the commute of everyone in your home.  See an example commute search.

Find Apartments Near Transit

Want to find an apartment within walking distance of the subway or the express bus that goes to your office?

No problem, with our new “Near Transit” search option you can select the transit route that you’d like to live near and how far you’re willing to walk to the stop. See transit search in action.

Search by Walk Score

Whether you want to be in the heart of it all, or just don’t want to have to drive to get a cup of coffee, Apartment Search now includes the ability to search by Walk Score.

Select the Walk Score search filter and click Walker’s Paradise to find only Walk Score 90+ apartments. See Walker’s Paradise apartments in Seattle.

Did you know:

• The longer your commute, the more likely you are to be overweight, have high cholesterol and suffer from neck/back pain (Source: Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index)
• Car ownership costs are the second largest household expense in the U.S. The average household spends more on their cars than they do on food and health care. (Source: Dept. of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics)
• People who live in walkable neighborhoods are happier, healthier and more likely to volunteer and entertain friends at home (Source: University of New Hampshire)

Whether you prefer driving, public transit, walking, or biking, Walk Score can help you find a commute that fits your lifestyle.

Commuting is expensive and time spent sitting in traffic is lost forever. Here are our favorite commuting stats:

• Over three quarters of home shoppers rate being within a 30 minute commute to work as important. (Source: National Association of Realtors)
• Commuters waste 4.2 billion hours and 2.8 billion gallons of gas in traffic per year. (Source: Texas Transportation Institute)
• The average American spends over $9,000 per year on their car. This is the equivalent of a $135,000 mortgage and the second largest expense for most households, costing more than food, clothing and health care. (Source: AAA)

To get started, visit walkscore.com/apartments and enter your work (or school) address, select your preferred mode of transportation, and tell us how long you’re willing to commute.

Apartment listings from craigslist are automatically sorted by estimated commute time and can be further filtered by Walk Score, price and size.

And if you don’t find what you’re looking for, we’ve integrated links to MyNewPlace and ForRent.com to search their national databases for nearby rental listings.

“Access to public transit and minimizing commute times are high-priority, quality of life issues for many renters. We’re very pleased to offer Walk Score users access to MyNewPlace’s extensive inventory of apartments and rental homes in virtually every neighborhood throughout the U.S.,” said Mark Moran, MyNewPlace SVP of Marketing.

Here’s a demo:

Find a better commute today!

We just added commute costs to our Commute Map so you can help your site visitors understand how much their commute will cost in terms of time and money.

Now you can display a commute map and commute cost calculator on your website.

Try it out on our Commute Demo page and then sign up to get started.

Here are the details of how we’re calculating commute costs.  Did you know transportation is the second largest expense for American households²?

Once you install the plugin, you can embed our Neighborhood Map in any post by typing a shortcode like this:

[walk-score-map address="3503 NE 45th St. Seattle WA 98105"]

 
The  shortcode above will display a map like this:

 

 
Give it a try and then rate our plugin on the WordPress site!

WordPress Trivia: Did you know WordPress powers 22 out of every 100 new websites in the United States? Wow!

Now it’s even easier to show commute times on your real estate listings with the Walk Score Amenity Map.

We’ve made the commute search box easier to find on our Amenity Map:

And you can set the default view of the Amenity Map to commute:

My bike commute to Walk Score HQ. It keeps me sane!

Designed to offer real estate professionals a low-cost way to showcase the location of a property, the Neighborhood Flyer is easy to customize, share online, and print for open houses. Ideal for:

• Homes
• Apartments
• Hotels
• Events

For just five dollars per property, you can customize an online flyer that can be downloaded as a print-quality PDF (print as many copies as you want) and get a web link that you can share with clients or post online.

The Neighborhood Flyer is also available as a co-branded service for brokerage firms and we’re pleased to announce a partnership with John L. Scott Real Estate to offer the Walk Score Neighborhood Flyer to their agents. (See official press release.)

Design options allow you to personalize the flyer and choose the amenity categories that showcase what is great about a property’s neighborhood. For example, a broker who is listing a loft in an urban center may want to list restaurants and shopping while a listing in a more bucolic neighborhood might feature schools and parks.

“No matter where the home is, brokers now have a way to showcase what’s great about the neighborhood around it.” says J. Lennox Scott, John L. Scott Chairman and CEO.

Let us know what you think.

Personally, I’ve always loved Street View and Bird’s Eye view—but I find it tedious to navigate around a neighborhood with them.  With Walk Score, you can just click on a category like “Coffee” and then click on each coffee shop to see it in Street View or Bird’s Eye view.  It’s an easy way to tour the neighborhood!

Go to our Amenity Map and then click the Street View button in the top right to see these new views in action.

Street View of Pike Place Market

Bird's Eye View of Pike Place Market

Walk Score Walkability Map

• Handsome new user interface
• Lists and maps of amenities by category
• iPad/tablet friendly controls
• Small, med, large, and super-sizes
• Commute reports

Click an image below to try the live version!

The New Amenity Map

Commute Reports

The new commute reports show commute time and distance for driving, public transit, walking, and biking from a home or apartment listing to a work address.

Commute Report on the Amenity Map

Before and After

Here’s a screenshot of the old Amenity Map so you can compare old vs. new:

The Previous Amenity Map

Join over 6,000 sites that use the Walk Score Amenity Map today!