It is much easier to live without a personal vehicle in D.C.’s wealthier neighborhoods.

Four of the five occupations with the shortest commutes were in highly paid industries like medicine and law.

If you live in Georgetown or Courthouse, congratulations—you’re in one of the region’s most walkable neighborhoods, which means that property values are higher, your neighbors are probably well-educated and you pay less for transit than many residents of less-walkable suburban developments.

We’ve talked about D.C.’s walkability before a bit, but have yet to delve into the implications of the online tool at Walkscore.com, which rates the walkability of cities and neighborhoods around the country. Walkscore launched in late May, and many other local bloggers noted the site then. The online tool allows you to plug in your own address in order to receive a “walkability score” based on the closeness of amenities like grocery stores, bars…

Who doesn’t love arbitrary rankings? Cooking Light, in celebration of recycling the same healthy recipes for the past 20 years, recently aggregated a bunch of statistics to create a list of the healthiest cities in America. The District finished a respectable third overall, falling just behind the granola-totin’ cities of Seattle and Portland, OR. At least we’re the champs east of the Mississippi! The criteria are dispersed among various categories and focus on the quality…