Choose where to live: compare neighborhoods first

The job, step by step

1. 1

   Score walkable, well-connected neighborhoods

   Score

   Weigh pedestrian streets, transit stops and the places you use, such as cafés, grocery stores or gyms. Every hex is scored 0–100, and Find Standouts outlines the top groups of hexes and names them by neighborhood.

2. 2

   Ask your country's own questions

   Question Library

   The library adds questions only some censuses can answer: where rent is lower and transit dense in Germany, where students find cheap rent in the United Kingdom, how income compares with rent in the United States.

3. 3

   Check the food and shops

   Variety

   See how mixed the restaurants are in each hex, or how evenly a set of kinds of place is spread.

4. 4

   Walk it from the flat

   Territory · catchment

   Drop a pin on the address and draw a 15-minute walking catchment. Its dashboard lists the places, residents and buildings inside.

5. 5

   Send the shortlist

   Copy link

   Copy link reopens the same city, factors and weights for a partner or flatmate, who can change them and watch the map move.

Try it on a real map

Each button opens the example in the map app, ready to change.

Real answers, with sources

Questions like these, already answered for real cities. Each answer names its source and census year, says what it cannot show, and opens on the live map.

From neighborhood to front door

The Score finds the neighborhoods; a walking catchment checks one flat. Draw it from the address and the dashboard shows what is really within reach on foot: how many places, of which kinds, and how built up the streets are.

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What this can't tell you

• No listings, asking prices or crime data.
• Rent and income appear only where the country's census publishes them, for one census year.
• Each figure is an estimate for its hex, not for a single building.