Haverford 'Very Walkable,' Website Says

When someone asks how walkable your neighborhood is, more than likely you don't respond, "Eh ... 65? Maybe 70?"

If sites like WalkScore.com keep gaining notoriety, though, perhaps you will.

Taking into account a location's proximity to restaurants, bars, coffee shops, grocery stores, parks, schools, theaters and more, the website assigns each a score on a scale of 0 to 100.

Towns and neighborhoods in the Greater Philadelphia area got the following grades:

Walker's Paradise

• Wayne (98)
• Narberth (97)
• Bryn Mawr (95)
• Phoenixville (92)
• Media (91)
• Rosemont (91)

Very Walkable

• Haverford (88)
• Berwyn (86)
• Malvern (86)
• Ardmore (85)
• Paoli (82)
• Manayunk (81)
• West Chester (79)
• Mt. Airy (74)
• Newtown Square (72)
• Chestnut Hill (70)

Somewhat Walkable

• Middletown (66)
• Merion Station (66)
• Havertown (65)
• Frazer (63)
• Penn Wynne (63)
• Roxborough (62)
• Villanova (55)
• Belmont Hills (55)
• Penn Valley (52)

Car-Dependent

• Wynnewood (49)
• Radnor (49)
• Devon (49)
• Broomall (46)
• Bala Cynwyd (45)
• Springfield (42)
• Upper Providence (34)
• Gladwyne (18)
• Edgmont (3)

How accurate do these ratings look to you? Please tell us in the comments section below.