America's Most Bikeable Neighborhoods

Top 25 Neighborhoods by Bike Score
Rank	Neighborhood	City	Bike Score	Population
1	Old North Davis	Davis, CA	100.0	424
1	Parkside Resident	Madison, WI	100.0	14
1	Old East Davis	Davis, CA	100.0	583
1	Downtown Core	Davis, CA	100.0	420
5	Goss Grove	Boulder, CO	100.0	1,689
6	South Eugene High School	Eugene, OR	100.0	660
7	West University	Eugene, OR	99.9	6,548
8	University Avenue	Davis, CA	99.8	483
9	Pie Allen	Tucson, AZ	99.8	957
10	Midtown/Winn Park Capitol Avenue	Sacramento, CA	99.8	6,268
11	University Heights	Albuquerque, NM	99.7	2,401
12	Marshall School	Sacramento, CA	99.7	2,217
13	Newton Booth	Sacramento, CA	99.7	2,750
14	Interland/University Research Park	Davis, CA	99.7	408
15	Brittingham Apartments	Madison, WI	99.6	86
16	Jefferson Westside	Eugene, OR	99.5	6,471
17	University of Oregon Campus	Eugene, OR	99.5	3,024
18	Iron Horse	Tucson, AZ	99.4	549
19	Boulevard Park	Sacramento, CA	99.4	2,893
20	New Era Park	Sacramento, CA	99.3	1,673
21	Cambridgeport	Cambridge, MA	99.3	12,101
22	Armory Park	Tucson, AZ	99.2	1,632
23	Alhambra Triangle	Sacramento, CA	99.2	387
24	Richmond Grove	Sacramento, CA	99.1	1,986
25	Bayview Foundation Inc.	Madison, WI	99.1	150

Data courtesy of Walk Score

Six neighborhoods have perfect scores: three in Davis, California, and one each in Madison, Wisconsin; Boulder, Colorado and Eugene, Oregon. Multiple cities have several neighborhoods among the top 25. Davis, California has five; neighboring Sacramento has seven; Eugene has four; and Madison has three. Aside from Madison and Cambridge, all of the top 25 are located in the Western part of the United States. Many of the top neighborhoods are located in college towns.

We can also use these neighborhood data to rank the cities with the most bikeable neighborhoods. The map below by our trusty cartographer, Zara Matheson of the Martin Prosperity Institute, plots the two highest bike score categories for 66 cities. The size of the dot shows the number of neighborhoods in that city that have a score of at least 70. The pink pie slice indicates the share of those neighborhoods that score at 90 or above, or Biker's Paradise.

The top-rated city overall is Tucson, with 89 neighborhoods that score 70 or higher, and Minneapolis and Portland tie for second with 61. Albuquerque and Chicago each have 60. Boulder, Sacramento, Davis, New York, and Denver round out the top 10. The rest of the top 20 include: Tempe, Oakland, Madison, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Seattle, Philadelphia, Arlington, Austin, and New Orleans.

When it comes to just the top-ranked category, Tucson tops the list again with 32 Biker's Paradise neighborhoods. Boulder is second with 22, and Davis is third with 17. Madison and Sacramento tie for fourth with 16 each. Minneapolis has 15, Albuquerque has 14, Denver and Portland each have 12, and Tempe rounds out the top 10 with 10. Cambridge, Eugene, and Philadelphia each have eight. San Francisco has seven, D.C. has five, and New Orleans has four. Lincoln, Nebraska, Missoula, Montana, and St. Petersburg, Florida have three each, and both Boise, Idaho and Oakland have two. Boston, Irvine, Pasadena, Salt Lake City, and Seattle each have one neighborhood that ranks in the highest category.

Still, it's abundantly clear that America still has a long way to go on bike friendliness (see the table below).