D.C.’s most walkable neighborhoods.D.C. is still the seventh most walkable large city in America, according to judger of walking Walk Score.
With a score of 74.1, D.C. was bested by New York, San Francisco, Boston, Philadelphia, Miami and Chicago. But we still beat Seattle, Oakland and Baltimore. D.C.’s top walkable neighborhoods are Dupont Circle, Chinatown, the U Street Corridor and downtown, all with ratings of 97. The least walkable, with a score of 18, is the Northwest D.C. neighborhood Hawthorne.
Here’s the methodology:
The 2014 ranking of Most Walkable U.S. Cities and Neighborhoods is based on a proprietary algorithm and analysis of over 10 million addresses and over 2 billion walking routes to neighborhood amenities across 2,500 cities and more than 10,000 neighborhoods. Walk Score’s ranking is the only national, quantitative walkability rating. Cities and neighborhoods are rated on a scale of 0-100, with locations receiving a score of 90-100 deemed a “Walker’s Paradise.”
Walk Score’s sister site Bike Score ranked D.C. are the sixth most bikeable city earlier this year.