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Airport Access

Nearby higher-quality passenger airports score higher using OurAirports airport and runway data.

Scale0-100

Higher values rank better for this score.

How It's Calculated

The latest published score is normalized to a 0-100 scale. The method below explains what the score rewards, with technical source metadata available for audit.

Scoring Method

How the ranking is built

Airport Access rewards places close to higher-quality passenger airports, with major scheduled-service airports contributing much more than small general-aviation fields.

  1. 1

    Each nearby airport contributes quality score / 100 times an exponential distance decay.

  2. 2

    Airport quality discounts non-passenger airports so military and general-aviation fields do not dominate the score.

  3. 3

    The summed raw presence is scaled to 0-100 with a cap.

Technical details
Score TypeMaster Score

Read from the current master score table for this criterion.

Ranking BasisSingle Score

The top 10 below ignore your blended relocation weights and sort only by Airport Access.

No source details available for this score.

What This Score Means

Airport Access rewards places close to higher-quality passenger airports, with major scheduled-service airports contributing much more than small general-aviation fields.

Statistics Feeding This Score

  • Nearby airport count

    Open U.S. land airports within the scoring radius.

    Source: OurAirports open airport data
  • Nearest and best airports

    Names, distances, airport types, IATA codes, and quality scores for the nearest and strongest contributing airports.

    Source: OurAirports open airport data
  • Airport quality

    Derived from airport type, scheduled-service and IATA signals, runway length/count, and lighted/paved runway share.

    Source: Derived from OurAirports airports.csv and runways.csv
  • Distance decay

    Each airport's contribution declines exponentially with distance from the place.

    Source: Derived from place and airport coordinates

Source Data

Source: OurAirports open airport dataPublic-domain airport and runway CSV data with airport type, scheduled-service flag, codes, coordinates, and runway characteristics.
Source: Places location coordinatesLatitude and longitude stored for each place and used for Haversine distance and proximity calculations.

Known Limits

  • Airport Access measures straight-line access to mapped airports, not drive time, routes, fares, frequency, delays, security wait times, parking, or airport transit.
  • OurAirports is community-maintained public-domain data and may lag real-world openings, closures, or service changes.
  • The score rewards airport access and does not model airport noise or flight-path exposure.

Top 10 Locations

Ranked by Airport Access.

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