Tortus Score
The neighborhood score that walked the block.
Every home on Tortus carries a Tortus Score — one number, 0 to 100, for how a place actually lives on foot. Not a guess from a map. The walk itself, done for you, with the receipts.
Everything underfoot
Park Slope, Brooklyn
Why a tortoise
Slow and steady sees it all.
A tortoise doesn't skim. It travels at ground level, one block at a time, and misses nothing.
Most neighborhood scores are estimated from a pin on a map — a radius drawn around an address, a guess at what's inside it. The Tortus Score is the opposite. It measures the walk itself: the grocery that's 240 meters away, the train that runs sixty-two times a day, the school four minutes off.
That's the promise behind the number — the most patient read of a neighborhood, measured street by street, and handed to a buyer the way a broker would say it out loud.
What it measures
Three honest reads, one number.
Each home is scored on what's genuinely within a slow walk. When something can't be measured, it's set aside and the rest carry the score — never faked to zero.
On Foot
Groceries, coffee, parks, the everyday errands — counted by real walking distance along the actual street grid, not a straight line drawn through the buildings in the way.
Transit
The stops within a walk, weighted by how often they actually run. A train every few minutes reaches more of the city than a bus twice a day, and the number says so.
Schools
The nearest schools by level and class size — facts about the buildings themselves. Never a scraped rating that just reflects who already lives there.
The difference
Every number comes with its evidence.
A vendor score is a number with nothing behind it. The Tortus Score is built from a list you can read — so a broker can repeat it to a client, and a buyer can go check it.
The tortoise's walk · Park Slope
- Grocery — Union Market
- 240 m · 3 min
- Coffee — corner cafe
- 90 m · 1 min
- Park — Prospect Park
- 310 m · 4 min
- Subway — F · G at 7th Ave
- 4 min · 62/day
- Elementary — PS 321
- 380 m · 5 min
What it never measures
A score about the place — never the people in it.
The Tortus Score describes physical access, and only physical access — distances to everyday places, transit, and school facilities. Some inputs are barred in every version, on purpose.
- Crime statistics
- Income or demographics
- Census composition
- School outcome ratings