It’s probably no surprise that Tennessee’s cities didn’t fare well on a national walkability index released last week. What might be less expected is which community got the state’s highest score.
The website walkscore.com looked at how close residential areas are to amenities like stores or libraries and assigned a point value. Cookeville scored a 40 on a 100-point scale. While that’s far less than highly walkable cities like New York or San Francisco, it’s right at the national average. It’s also higher than the scores for Memphis, Nashville and every other place in Tennessee but Knoxville.
The site deemed that 10 percent of the Cookevillie-the area around downtown and the Tennessee Tech campus-is “somewhat walkable,” meaning a person who lives there can perform some errands on foot.
Brentwood, Spring Hill, and LaVergne drew the fewest points. All of their scores were in the teens.
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