Help people take back their commute time.
WalkableJobs is a map-first job search that helps you find work that fits your life, not just your resume. Instead of scrolling listings and guessing at the drive, you browse nearby jobs on a map and see how far each one is from home.
Live now across Georgia, starting with retail and service roles.
Why we exist
Job search tools optimize for matching resumes to postings, and almost none of them treat your time as something worth protecting. A job that looks perfect on paper can quietly cost you two hours a day in traffic, time that could go to family, rest, or a second pursuit. We think the right job is one you can actually live with, and that starts with where it is.
A short commute is a job benefit
An hour each way is ten hours a week you never get back. Where a job is matters as much as what it pays, so distance should be a first-class part of the search rather than a footnote.
Search should start from where you live
Job boards sort by keyword relevance and rank whoever pays for placement. We start from your address and show you what is genuinely reachable.
Everyday jobs deserve better tools
Retail, healthcare and food service workers feel commute pain the most. Shifts start early, end late, and rarely line up with traffic. They are who we build for first.
What we're building
A job search built around real distance, not job-board guesswork.
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Browse on a map
See open roles right on the map so you can quickly spot what is close to home, transit, or places you already go.
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Search from your address
Enter a ZIP code or address and the map centers on your world, not on a list of postings sorted by someone else’s algorithm.
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Browse nearby jobs on a map and see how far each one is from home
The list follows the map, nearest first, and every job carries its straight-line distance, so you can see what is close before you apply.
Why Georgia first
We started in Atlanta, a city defined by its commutes, sprawling, car-dependent, and famous for its traffic. If a commute-first job search can work there, it can work anywhere. We now cover the whole state, from Savannah and Augusta to Columbus, Macon and Valdosta. Coverage is still densest around Atlanta, and we are filling in the rest before adding another state.
Questions people ask
What the map does today, in plain terms, including the parts it does not do yet.
- How do I find jobs close to my house?
- Start from your address rather than from a job title. On WalkableJobs you enter a ZIP code or let your browser share your location, and the map shows the open jobs around it. Every result carries how far it is from that starting point, or from your saved home if you have one, so nothing on the list is a guess.
- Is there a map for job searches?
- Yes. WalkableJobs is map first: the map is the search rather than a view you switch into after a list of results. Open jobs appear as pins on the map, and the list beside it holds the jobs on screen, so what you see on one is what you see on the other. Zoom out and the pins gather into circles that count the jobs in each area.
- Can I search jobs by commute?
- Not by travel time, and nothing narrows the results by distance either. The map lists the jobs in the area you are looking at, nearest your starting point first, and gives each one's straight-line distance from your saved home if you have one, and otherwise from that starting point. If you are signed in and have saved a home or set a starting point on the map, a job's page can also show how long it takes to walk, bike and drive there. If you are signed in, so can a job's panel on the map.
- How are the walk, bike and drive times calculated?
- If you are signed in and have saved a home or set a starting point on the map, they appear on the page of any job we have a location for, measured from the home saved on your account or, without one, from the starting point you last set on the map in that browser. In a job's panel on the map they are measured from your saved home if you have one, and otherwise from the map's starting point. They are left off when the site has used up its monthly allowance of routes or your account its daily one, or when Mapbox finds no drive to the job. We round that point to about 250 metres and ask Mapbox to route each trip to the job's location; our server saves neither the point nor the times. Your browser keeps the times it has shown you until the page is closed or reloaded or you sign out, and need not ask again for the same trip: the same job, on the map or on its own page, or another job at the same place on the map, from a starting point that rounds to the same point. The drive is Mapbox's prediction for leaving at 9 am on the next weekday, with the traffic it expects then, not today's. The drive is worked out first: when it is more than 2 miles by road, the walk reads "Over 30 Min" instead of a timed route, and when it is more than 5 miles, so does the bike ride. A job more than 30 miles away in a straight line reads "Over an Hour" without a route being asked for, and so does a drive Mapbox puts at over an hour. The exception is a road that goes well out of its way: when the job is no more than half as far in a straight line as the drive, we route the walk anyway if that straight line is within 2 miles, and the ride if it is within 5. Distances everywhere else on the site are straight line.
- How do I find jobs within walking distance?
- Set your starting point, then zoom the map in around it. The list keeps to the jobs on screen, nearest first, each with its straight-line distance. Straight line distance is not the same as pavement distance, so treat the result as a shortlist and check the route before you apply.
- What job boards show jobs on a map?
- Most large boards offer a map as a secondary view, usually after a keyword search and often pinned to a city rather than to your address. WalkableJobs is built the other way round, with the map and the distance from your address first, and the filters narrowing the map and the list together. We cover Georgia today, most densely around Atlanta, with retail, healthcare and food service the largest industries.
Get in touch
We are building this in the open and early feedback shapes what gets built next. Send us a note if a job is showing up in the wrong place, if an employer you know is hiring and is missing from the map, or if there is something the search should do and does not. We read everything.