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Type of site | Walkability services |
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| Available in | English |
| Headquarters | Seattle, Washington, U.S. |
| Owner | Redfin |
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| URL | www |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | July 2007 |
| Current status | Active |
Walk Score, a subsidiary of Redfin, provides walkability analysis and apartment search tools. Its flagship product is a large-scale, public access walkability index that assigns a numerical walkability score to any address in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia. Walk Score is a type of automated efficiency model focused on location efficiency. A Walk Score, as well as a Bike Score and a Transit Score, may be assigned to a particular address or an entire region, and the company maintains a ranking of the most walkable cities in the United States. Products for computer programmers include Travel Time API. Higher walk scores have been correlated with higher property values[1] and lower mortgage default risk.[2]
The company is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.
- ^ Goldstein, Daniel (August 11, 2016). "How a high 'walk score' boosts your home's value". MarketWatch.
- ^ Pivo, Gary (June 18, 2020). "Walk Score: The Significance of 8 and 80 for Mortgage Default Risk in Multifamily Properties". Journal of Sustainable Real Estate. 6: 187–210. doi:10.1080/10835547.2014.12091859.