Highland Park Boasts Average 'Walkability' Score

How walkable is Highland Park? A bit more than the rest of Los Angeles, but only average compared with the rest of the country.

That's according to a "walkability" survey released recently by the website Walk Score.

LAist reported on Thursday that Los Angeles dropped in the rankings of a national "walkability" survey of cities and towns.

Click here to see the LAist story.

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.

Los Angeles' score of 66 dropped it from 12th in the rankings down to 13th, compared Walk Score's 2008 national study.

Click here to see Los Angeles' walk score.

The survey also broke down Los Angeles' walk scores by neighborhood.

Highland Park scored slightly higher than the city average with a score of 69, good for 36th in the city. Mount Washington scored slightly below the city average with a score of 64. Downtown earned the highest walk score in Los Angeles with a 92. The low score went to the San Pedro adjacent neighborhood of Terminal Island, which earned a lowly 11.

You can check out Highland Park's walk score here.

The survey also allows users to test the walk score of their own home address.

Not surprisingly, New York City ranked first among major cities, with a perfect score of 100.