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AARP Walk Audit Tool Kit Worksheets

Download our free printable, fillable, shareable forms and checklists for taking notes and making observations about a street or area's safe walkability


The AARP Walk Audit Tool Kit worksheets are easy to print from home, easy to complete, and easy to use by anyone who wants to make their community more livable and pedestrian-friendly for people of all ages. 

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Follow the instructions below to download and share these worksheets, which are available as individual worksheets or as an 11-sheet collection.
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spinner image The front and back covers of the AARP Walk Audit Tool Kit

Take Action!

Share the walk audit findings with local leaders, elected officials and members of civic organizations and neighborhood groups. See page 18 of the AARP Walk Audit Tool Kit (pictured) for information about reporting results and proposing solutions. 

Take a Look at Trails

In some communities, residents get around by using pathways that are open to pedestrians, cyclists and certain low-speed motorized vehicles. See the worksheets for Multiuse Paths and Trails.

Each worksheet can be used on its own or in combination with other worksheets. Each can be printed anew for observing a different street or block. 

A walk audit can occur in a single-location or along a route between destinations (aka a mobile walk audit).

We encourage printing, photocopying and sharing the worksheets so numerous walk auditors — working solo or as part of a team — can observe and document the safety of a community's streets and sidewalks.

This page includes links for downloading individual worksheets as well as for downloading the complete 11-worksheet collection. 

Choose from a one-page worksheet or a two-page large-type version, both of which can be used by printing (and completing by hand) and/or as a fillable PDF that can be completed on an electronic device then printed or shared online.

  • Scroll down further to learn how to save — and print or share — a completed, fillable PDF.

Download the Worksheets

Single-sheet worksheets (11 pages) |  Large-type worksheets (22 pages)

  1. Make a Map: One-Pager | Large-Type  
  2. Who’s Using the Street — and Why? One-Pager | Large-Type
  3. Sidewalk, Streets and Crossings (single-location): One-Pager | Large-Type
  4. Sidewalk, Streets and Crossings (walking audit): One-Pager | Large-Type
  5. Sidewalks: One-Pager | Large-Type
  6. Streets and Crossings: One-Pager | Large-Type
  7. Street Safety and Appeal: One-Pager | Large-Type
  8. Public Transit Access: One-Pager | Large-Type
  9. Build a Better Block: One-Pager Large-Type
  10. Winter Weather: One-Pager | Large-Type
  11. Summary Worksheet: One-Pager | Large-Type

Get the worksheets in Spanish »

To Save a Completed PDF

Select either option, both of which begin under the File tab in the navigation bar that appears at the top of an open PDF:

  • Option 1: Select "Save as Other > Reader Extended PDF > "Enable More Tools: Commenting and Measuring" 

  • Option 2: Select "Export to > Image >JPEG"

Page published October 2022

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