Walk audits

The first step towards making our streets safer and more comfortable for walking is to document current conditions: from dangerous intersections and broken sidewalks, to positive examples that can serve as models. This is why we’ve conducted walk audits for many years, reporting our findings and recommending ways to enhance pedestrian safety, accessibility and comfort. We’ve compiled our walk audits in a searchable database, accessible below.

Building on that work, a data dashboard was created in 2026 in collaboration with a team of students in the Tufts University Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning (UEP) program: Dustin Michels, Jordan Bryant, Olivia Franklin, Victoria Lendino, Ken Wang, and Marian Yabe. It fetches live data from the Walk Massachusetts audit database spreadsheet and displays it in an interactive manner; click through for the full page.

If you’re interested in learning how to conduct your own walk audit, explore our Walk Audit Academy resources. If you’ve already conducted a walk audit, you can use this form to share your results so we can add them to the database.

Upcoming Walk Audits

Accelerating Climate Resiliency Grant Climate-Safe Walk Audits, Summer 2026

We’ll be working directly with five communities—Danvers, Melrose, Salem, Stoneham, and Wakefield—to make walking not just safer, but also more resilient and “climate-ready.” Especially if you live, work, or play in one of those five communities, make sure you are on our email list so we can reach out and loop you in as we get the ball rolling in the coming months!
- Danvers: after work on Wednesday, May 27. RSVP form coming soon.
- Melrose: coming soon!
- Salem: coming soon!
- Stoneham: coming soon!
- Wakefield: coming soon!

Boston MPO Vision Zero Region Walk Audit Academies, Spring 2026

In May 2026, we worked with Boston MPO’s Regional Vision Zero task force to teach participants and staff/residents from two municipalities (Holliston and Randolph) and other nearby communities how they can lead their own walk audit. This builds on a North Shore walk audit training program we offered last winter in Beverly in conjunction with the Beverly Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee. If you took part, thank you – and please stay in touch! Let us know how we might be able to offer you advice for leading an audit in your own neighborhood.

The Walk Audit Database

This public database compiles many of the walk audits conducted by WalkMassachusetts, offering valuable insights into challenges and solutions across the state. Our goal is to empower communities to take steps toward safer and more walkable streets. The below data can also be accessed via this interactive map.

What’s in the database? For every walk audit, the database includes:

Summary of findings: Key observations and challenges identified in each audit.
Recommendations: Long- and short-term strategies to improve walkability.
Themes: Common focuses such as traffic calming, bike or bus access, and age-friendly features.

You’ll also find details about specific streets and intersections evaluated, along with links to the full reports for further information.

View the database on Google Sheets, where you can sort and filter the different columns.

Submit your walk audit data

We know we’re not the only ones conducting walk audits! To build on this work, we’ve created a Walk Audit Submission Tool that makes it easy to share your findings. Use the Google Form embedded below to enter details from your audits, which will be reviewed by WalkMassachusetts staff and added to a separate database for community-submitted audits. This initiative allows us to pool efforts from across the state, identifying patterns and solutions while amplifying the impact of walk audits conducted by advocates like you.