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EP, Silver Lake Score High in New Walkability Survey
A national survey by Walk Score confirms what we already knew.
Four nearby neighborhoods all scored far higher than Los Angeles overall on a new walkability survey.
The website Walk Score released the survey, which awarded Los Angeles a 66 score, 13th in the nation.
Meantime, Echo Park, Silver Lake and Los Feliz were all in the high 70s.
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Los Feliz had a score of 79, Silver Lake had a 78, and Echo Park got a 75, the same as Eagle Rock.
Click here to see Los Angeles' walk score and a breakdown by neighborhood.
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Downtown was tops with a 92, while San Pedro was at the rear with an 11.
The survey was conducted by Walk Score, which ranks a city's walkability by measuring the proximity of individual addresses to various local resources, based on location and population data from the 2010 Census.
Click here to see the LAist story on the survey.
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