SafeStreets by Streets & Commons

Walkability and pedestrian safety score for any address

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Hi Product Hunt, I'm Sarath. I built SafeStreets. SafeStreets scores any address in the world for walkability and pedestrian safety, free. Type an address, get a score from 0 to 10, and see what's behind it. I started building it after a year in Thailand. Chiang Mai, like most of the country, is built around vehicles, streets that everyone uses every day are genuinely hard and unsafe to walk, and Thailand loses around 18,000 people on its roads a year. Back home in Chennai I'd watched the same thing happen: neighbourhoods that were once easy to walk getting swallowed by traffic and parking. In both places the problem was obvious on the ground, but there was no simple way to point at one street and show, with data, what was wrong with it. That gap is what I wanted to close. How it scores. Every address gets a 0 to 10 score broken into four parts: how much of daily life is a short walk away (Daily Reach), how safe the streets are to cross (Street Safety), transit, and comfort like shade and heat. It runs on open public data, OpenStreetMap for the street network and Sentinel-2 satellite imagery for tree cover and heat, and the full method is published so you can check it. It also answers the human questions: could a child walk to school here, could you live without a car, could a parent age in place. Nearly all of it is free, and none of it needs an account. No sign-up, no credentials, nothing to create. On top of the score there's a car-free savings calculator that shows what you'd save a year by not needing a car, a where-to-move finder, a side-by-side compare for two addresses, and a school-route safety check. The only things that cost anything are a downloadable dataset for people who want the raw numbers in bulk, and an API for anyone who wants to build on it. Everything you'd actually click around in is free and open. From a score to action. The score is the satellite read. To catch what data can't see, there's a walk-the-block audit: a 25-point checklist you fill in on your phone in about 15 minutes that turns into a council-ready PDF with a drafted email. The point is to give a community something concrete to put in front of a local government In the US it goes deeper. For US addresses it pulls in richer data, EPA walkability scores, federal crash records, and neighbourhood rankings, so you can compare places, not just score a single point. That's the layer planners, researchers, and people working on housing or relocation tend to find most useful. Who it's for. Anyone deciding where to live who wants more than a listing's one-line claim. Parents checking whether a school route is actually safe. Local advocates and community groups building a case for a safer street. Planners and researchers who want an open, comparable score instead of a black box. Limits: It can't see a broken slab underfoot or motorcycles parked across a footpath, and the data is thin in parts of the world. It's a first filter and a starting point for an argument. Run your own neighbourhood, or a street you know on foot, and see how close it gets to what you actually experience. The gaps are what makes it better. safestreets.streetsandcommons.com