robhh

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That's exactly what I'm also looking for. I've been looking for a house in both Canada and the U.S. and for Canada there are some house search websites that show demographic census data for each neighborhood. For the U.S. I haven't seen anything comparable. I don't even know if this type of demographic data at the necessary granularity would be available publicly?

Comment · 1 year ago

There is another website that I've been using that provides similar functionality in terms of the heatmap: http://close.city

What I like about this one is that it can show travel times from a specific address. What would be even more useful is if it could show mixed-mode transportation times.

Comment · 4 years ago

Thanks for the link. This goes in the right direction, but so far I have not been able to identify truly walkable neighborhoods through websites. The main problem is that the metrics usually being used, do not reflect the type of walkability that would be beneficial for raising children.

As an example, I randomly picked a particular address on walkscore.com (https://walk.sc/37yZciv) which gets a walk score of 91 (walker's paradise), but that particular address is on a large 7-lane street with not a lot of walking infrastructure around. I'm guessing the score might mostly be driven by proximity to stores, which doesn't necessarily matter in this case. Better metrics may be such things as amount of car traffic, noise levels, size of sidewalks (in comparison with size of streets), amount of small streets and distance to larger roads, etc..

I wonder if a website exists that puts more emphasis on how nice it is to walk in a neighborhood vs. mere practicality?

Comment · 4 years ago

As a new dad, who also moved to the Bay Area from Europe, I would be interested what parts of the Bay Area would provide such a walkable environment?