The 10-category proximity grid
Groceries, healthcare, transit, schools, dining, safety services, shopping, parks, pharmacies and gyms — each scored green to red by how reachable it really is on foot.
100% free — forever
The second opinion your
listing won't give you.
- 1 Paste an address Any street, building, or neighbourhood — in India or beyond.
- 2 We survey the neighbourhood Ten daily essentials, real on-foot walk-times, terrain & noise reads.
- 3 Get Nearside score A livability number out of 100 — and every point that built it.
Try one:
Koramangala
Bandra West, Mumbai
Indiranagar
Real walk-times
Actual on-foot minutes to the shops, schools and stations you'd use — measured, never straight-line guessed.
Honest by design
Hazard and vibe reads are labelled estimates. We never dress a proxy up as a fact, or infer a crime rate.
Shows its math
Every point in the score is traceable to a category — and you can re-weight all ten to your own life.
What a Nearside Survey gives you
A whole neighbourhood, read like an instrument.
A livability score that argues its case
One number out of 100, broken down category by category in a chart you can interrogate — and only credibly-reviewed places count, so junk pins never inflate it. No black box.
Explore anything nearby
Ask for “best cafés”, “late-night pharmacy”, “parks for kids” — get the top-rated real places around you, then survey any area in a tap.
The livability leaderboard
See the most livable localities people have surveyed — ranked on neutral weights, and rolled up by city and state.
Weighted to your life
Care about parks more than nightlife? Drag the sliders once and every future survey re-scores itself.
Your real commute
Add home and work — see door-to-door times by walk, transit and car, traffic included, on every survey.
It's free · no sign-in needed to run a Nearside survey
The difference
A listing sells you the flat.
A listing sells you the flat.
Nearside tells you the truth about the street.
A property listing
- 50 flattering photos, 0 facts about the area
- “Prime location”, “well-connected” — says who?
- No walk-times. No flood risk. No air quality.
- Wants your phone number before it tells you anything
A Nearside survey
- Real on-foot minutes to every daily essential
- One honest score out of 100 — and the math behind it
- Flood risk, air quality & monsoon reads no portal shows
- Free, instant, no sign-up, no spam calls
A real read, in seconds
“See why a locality scores what it scores.”
Every survey opens up like this — a headline number, then the exact reasons behind it. No vibes, no guesswork.
84Excellent
Indiranagar, Bengaluru
Groceries, cafés & a metro stop all under 8 min on foot
63Decent
A fast-growing suburb
Great homes, but the nearest chemist is a 19-min walk
Free · takes under a minute · no sign-in
Explore
Looking for something specific? Just ask.
Pick a locality or use your location, then ask in plain words — “pubs”, “late-night pharmacy”, “parks for kids”. You get real, well-reviewed places with reviews, hours and contact details.
Leaderboard
The most livable localities, right now.
Every locality anyone surveys is ranked on the same neutral weights — so this is an honest, apples-to-apples board. Here are the current front-runners.
What people are saying
House-hunters are ditching guesswork
★★★★★
Was about to sign a lease in a “premium” area. Nearside showed the nearest chemist was a 20-min walk and the road floods. Saved me a year of regret.
★★★★★
As an NRI I couldn’t visit before renting. This gave me real walk-times and an air-quality read I trusted more than any broker.
★★★★★
Finally a tool that shows its math. I re-weighted it for “parks & schools” and the whole ranking changed to fit my family.
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No black box
How the Livability score is computed
Every score is just arithmetic you can follow. Here's the whole recipe:
- 1Score each of 10 categoriesFor groceries, healthcare, transit, schools and the rest, we measure how close the nearest few are by real on-foot walk-time (closer = more points) and how many distinct options are actually reachable (coverage).
- 2Keep only credible placesPlaces with too few reviews — or a lone fake 5★ — are filtered out, so junk pins never pad the count. Ratings and review volume decide what's genuine.
- 3Weight by what matters to youEvery category starts with a built-in importance — daily essentials like healthcare, groceries and a nearby police or fire station count for more than a gym or a mall. Your priority sliders (0–10, set on the Priorities page) then multiply that: 5 is balanced, 10 doubles a category, 0 ignores it.
- 4Adjust for the neighbourhoodA neighbourhood factor reflects real density, how much is within a 5-minute walk, variety, and how well-loved the local places are — so a genuine high street beats an empty cluster.
- 5Subtract honest penaltiesSteep terrain, flood-prone low ground, or a poorly-connected street grid (long detours) shave points off.
Score = weighted amenities × neighbourhood factor × (1 − penalties), out of 100. Open any survey's “Why this score” panel to see every point traced back to its source.
Surveying the neighbourhood…
Hang tight — we're checking every route around this address so the score is real, not guessed.
Locating the address…
Scanning 10 amenity types…
Measuring real walk-times…
Checking terrain & connectivity…
Crunching the livability score…
Livability survey
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Surveying this neighbourhood — a first-time survey can take a little longer while we walk every route.
Ask anything nearby Pubs, clinics, cafés — the location's already set, just say what you need
Within a 15-minute walk Tap any tile to explore
Why this score Every point, traceable
Hazard & vibe reads
Terrain & flood estimate
Nightlife & noise estimate
Neighbourhood map
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Scroll or +/− to zoom
Tap a pin for details
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Personalisation
What matters to you
Rate each one out of 10
Set how much each thing matters to you
Every category already has a built-in importance — essentials like healthcare and a nearby police station count for more by default. These sliders fine-tune that: 5 is balanced, 10 makes a category twice as important, 0 ignores it. Nearside re-weights every locality you survey around what you set here.
Saved priorities auto-apply to every locality you survey.
Explore
Find the best places anywhere
Step 1 · Where to look
Pick a location
Search any locality or address to look around it — or use your current location. Results are ranked closest and best-reviewed to wherever you set here.
Step 2 · What you need
Ask for anything
“Pubs”, “paediatrician”, “late-night pharmacy”, “parks for kids”. We rank real, well-reviewed places — tap any card for reviews, hours and contact details, or survey the whole area in one click.
Community
Livability leaderboard
The most livable places people have surveyed on Nearside — scored on neutral default weights, so every locality is compared on the same footing. Roll them up by city or state, or open any one to see exactly how its score was built.
Account
Profile & settings
Tell us a little about your life — Nearside uses it to show real commute times and tune every score to what actually matters to you. All optional, all private.
Where you spend your days
How you get around
Who's it for · picks smart default priorities
Presets set your category weights on the Priorities page — you can always fine-tune them there.
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