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Data story · Parks

How far is your nearest park?

Federal Way has 40 named parks in and around the city. We measured every one of its 21,256 street addresses to the edge of the nearest one, in a straight line, to see who has a park within a short walk.

85%
of addresses within 800 m of a park
426 m
median distance to the nearest park
98001
ZIP code where only 10% are within 800 m

Every address, coloured by distance

Parks are shaded green. Hover a band in the key to pick out its addresses.

Most of the city is a short walk away

9,953 addresses (47%) are within about 400 m of a park, a five minute walk. Another 8,113 are within 800 m. That leaves 3,190 addresses more than a ten minute walk from the nearest park.

Within 400 m (about 5 minutes’ walk)9,953
400 to 800 m (5 to 10 minutes)8,113
800 m to 1.6 km (10 to 20 minutes)3,123
Over 1.6 km67

By ZIP code

The gap is in 98001: its median address is 1.1 km from a park, and 10% are within 800 m, against 85% for the city as a whole.

98001 · 696 addressesmedian 1.1 km
98003 · 7,340 addressesmedian 416 m
98023 · 13,200 addressesmedian 412 m

The parks most people live closest to

How many addresses have each park as their nearest one.

  1. #1

    Olympic View Park

    1,980 addresses

  2. #2

    Sacajawea Park

    1,264 addresses

  3. #3

    Madrona Park

    1,248 addresses

  4. #4

    Alderbrook Park

    1,234 addresses

  5. #5

    Lake Grove Park

    1,208 addresses

  6. #6

    Dash Point Park

    966 addresses

  7. #7

    Celebration Park

    941 addresses

  8. #8

    French Lake Park

    894 addresses

How we worked this out

One point per street address (units left out) from Addresses, kept when it falls inside City Limits. Distances are straight lines to the edge of the nearest named park in Parks (city, county and state parks), so real walking distances along streets are longer. ZIP codes from ZIP Codes; ZIP codes with fewer than 200 addresses in the city are left out of the chart.