Boston is a dense city with a comparatively small land area making it one of the most walkable urban areas in the entire country. This has a positive side effect on commuters as Boston also boasts one of the highest job accessibility by walking.

A study by the University of Minnesota Center for Transportation Studies found that Boston has the 7th highest job accessibility via walking in the nation, bested only by perennial walkability powers San Francisco and New York, as well as Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington D.C. and Seattle.

“While walking mode-share for commute trips nationally is around 2.8%, and 5.0% within large cities, walking has historically been one of the most important transportation modes in urban environments,” the study reads.

Philadelphia, San Jose and Denver rounded out the top 10.

According to the study, Boston has 1,027 jobs available within a 10-minute walk on average; 4,489 within 20 minutes; 9,988 within 30 minutes; 17,338 within 40 minutes; 26,733 within 50 minutes and 37,370 within an hour.

The significance of the findings here indicate a growing trend that more people are moving closer to where the jobs are, and those jobs are heavily focused in metropolitan areas.

The latest U.S. Census data estimates indicate that Boston’s population is surging, and that the lion’s share of it is millennials. More and more young professionals are flocking to cities, and in Boston it’s happening at a rate that outpaces rental unit availability.

“The cities that make up the top 10 walking accessibility ranks all exhibit a combination of density and the fast, frequent transit service which often accompanies higher density urban cores,” the report added. “Employment density is a primary factor in whether an area is economically walkable or not, and employment densities are typically high in cities that employ heavy rail systems leading into a central core.”