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How Many Businesses Are Within Walking Distance of Your Home?
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How Many Businesses Are Within Walking Distance of Your Home?
[from http://www.walkablestreets.com/urbanity.htm]

A powerful way to assess the walkability of your home location or a location you are considering moving to is to determine the number of businesses within a one-mile walk of your home. A quick and easy way comes from Alan Durning (an author who wrote the superb book, The Car & the City). With this tool, you can, within seconds, find out how many businesses you can walk to from your home.

The method:

To get a count of businesses within a mile of your home (your "walkshed"), go to the Qwest online phone directory: http://www.dexonline.com/#, select the business listings, type "all" in the category field, click "near a street address," type in your address, and choose "1 mile." The Qwest site will rapidly list how many businesses there are within a one-mile walk of your front door, as well as their name and address.

My house has 148 businesses within a one-mile walking distance. Not bad, but homes within a big city downtown are usually within a mile of several THOUSANDS of businesses. But still, the number near my home is a lot better than the suburban home I grew up in when I was a boy. That home has a score of 0.

Durning goes on to point out that more than one quarter of car trips in the United States are shorter than one mile. That is a LOT of trips that could have been walked. (In my opinion, most of these short trips are by car rather than by foot because for at least 98 percent of all car trips that Americans take, there is a free parking space at the destination, which BEGS us to arrive by car.)

Durning also indicates that "realtors provide detailed information to prospective home buyers on schools and resale values. They could as easily report the Walkshed Index--high scores translate into thousands of dollars of potential savings in fuel and car payments."

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Date:: Jul 29, 2010 05:27

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User:: watson09
Date:: Jun 6, 2010 09:36

I found 5 of them. Not sure as i do not see them??

Are they hidden or some of them are closed?? I think the less business and grocery shop you have around your area the better you find living out there..

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User:: Langwattxh
Date:: Mar 13, 2010 06:17

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There is an entire IT hub within walking distance from my house....

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User:: chrispeterson
Date:: Nov 23, 2009 03:51

They're pretty good about traffic flow after a concert, so your best bet would be to stay at the arena since the area around the place is not very good. Stay safe and have a good time.
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User:: kunio2012
Date:: Sep 16, 2009 17:18

There are some malls just a few blocks aways from my house.

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User:: Ashley123
Date:: Aug 20, 2009 12:47

An IT park is under construction there in a walking distance from my house....

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User:: jingle33
Date:: Aug 19, 2009 03:57

I have about 12 busineses near my home.I live in the market actually.

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User:: Annie0083
Date:: Aug 13, 2009 16:49

There is an entire IT hub within walking distance from my house....

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