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Malvern 'Very Walkable,' Website Says

WalkScore.com rates neighborhoods, in the Greater Philadelphia area and elsewhere, using a variety of factors.

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.

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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:

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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)

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