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Lowest walkability index by state

Walkability context index.

This measure has no better end. The order describes the states, it does not rank them — see the other direction.

MoverMath’s transparent 0–100 relative index, not Walk Score or EPA’s own National Walkability Index. It gives 55% weight to EPA pedestrian-oriented intersection density, 30% to activity density, and 15% to employment land-use mix; each component is ranked across counties before combining. It describes broad built-environment context, not sidewalk condition, crossings, hills, crime, accessibility, transit reliability, air quality, a walking route, or what is reachable from a particular home. The underlying EPA block-group data are from 2021 and state figures are population-weighted county values.

  1. 1Mississippi30.7
  2. 2Alabama33.9
  3. 3Vermont34.3
  4. 4West Virginia35.7
  5. 5Arkansas35.8
  6. 6Kentucky36.0
  7. 7Maine36.6
  8. 8Tennessee36.9
  9. 9South Carolina37.4
  10. 10South Dakota37.5
  11. 11Georgia37.9
  12. 12North Carolina38.1
  13. 13Alaska38.2
  14. 14Louisiana39.7
  15. 15Iowa41.1
  16. 16New Hampshire41.3
  17. 17Virginia41.8
  18. 18Oklahoma42.1
  19. 19Missouri42.3
  20. 20North Dakota42.3
  21. 21Wyoming42.4
  22. 22Wisconsin42.9
  23. 23Michigan43.1
  24. 24Montana43.3
  25. 25Idaho43.5
  26. 26Indiana43.8
  27. 27Minnesota43.8
  28. 28Ohio44.0
  29. 29Delaware44.3
  30. 30New Mexico44.4
  31. 31Kansas45.0
  32. 32Nebraska45.4
  33. 33Texas46.6
  34. 34Florida48.2
  35. 35Maryland48.2
  36. 36Illinois48.5
  37. 37Arizona48.9
  38. 38Hawaii49.0
  39. 39Pennsylvania49.0
  40. 40Utah49.6
  41. 41Washington49.6
  42. 42Colorado50.0
  43. 43New York50.0
  44. 44Oregon50.2
  45. 45Nevada51.0
  46. 46Massachusetts51.4
  47. 47New Jersey51.6
  48. 48California52.5
  49. 49Rhode Island52.5
  50. 50District of Columbia53.4

Not ranked, because this measure is not published for them: Connecticut.

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Source: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database v3.0. · How this is built