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Atlanta · GA · 20 neighborhoods
Compare official Atlanta neighborhoods on ACS rent, walk, safety, schools, and commute. Rankings stay inside this city.
Data period. ACS 2024 5-year (2020-2024) · APD Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 · OSM Aug 2026. ACS and APD retrieved 2026-10-28; OSM retrieved 2026-10-28. Editorial copy last revised Sep 2026.
Published walkable weights — same order as the table below. Fit is an in-house score, not a resident review.
$2K ACS median rent
The official polygon is Downtown. Five Points and Fairlie-Poplar are searches inside it, not extra polygons. Violent Part I is 6.5 per 1,000. Property is 27.7, the highest property rate in this set, because the count includes visitors and the offices. Rent is $1,701. OSM counts 18 bars. The park count is 88, which is small mapped pieces, not 88 lawns.
$2K ACS median rent
The official polygon is Midtown. Bachelor's share is 82% and median age is 35.5. Rent is $2,052. OSM counts 34 cafes, 26 bars, and 39 transit stops in the polygon or within 800 meters of the centroid. Violent Part I is 1.8 per 1,000. Property is 17.1, written by the offices and the night as well as the people who sleep here.
$2K ACS median rent
The official polygon is Cabbagetown. One tract, population 2,995. Property Part I is 2.7 per 1,000, the smallest rate in this set, from 8 reports. Violent is one report. Rent is $2,059. OSM counts 14 bars, so the night is the street, not the crime rate.
$2K ACS median rent
The official polygon is Ansley Park. One tract, population 1,922. Median income is $150,481. The window has 0 violent Part I reports inside the polygon. Property is 10 reports, 5.2 per 1,000. Renters are 32%. OSM counts 0 cafes and 0 transit stops under the 800-meter rule.
$2K ACS median rent
The official name is Virginia Highland. Renters are 40% and the home median is $801,621. Rent is $1,830. OSM counts 13 bars and 5 cafes. Violent Part I is 0.7 per 1,000. Property is 6.8. Median age is 37.9.
$2K ACS median rent
The official name is Poncey-Highland. It is its own polygon. Renters are 67%. Rent is $1,920. OSM counts 11 bars and 7 cafes. Violent Part I is 0.9 per 1,000. Property is 8.0. Median age is 38.9.
$2K ACS median rent
The official polygon is Grant Park. The park is the lawn. The houses are the rest. Renters are 48%. Rent is $2,093. Violent Part I is 1.5 per 1,000. Property is 9.6. Median age is 33.3. Bachelor's share is 81%.
$2K ACS median rent
The official name is Buckhead Village. The rest of that upper side is other polygons, not this one. Renters are 83% and the home median is $406,400, so the owner figure is a thin set. Rent is $2,125. OSM counts 14 bars. Violent Part I is 0.8 per 1,000. Property is 6.9.
$2K ACS median rent
The official polygon is Morningside. The home median is $878,437, the highest in this Atlanta set. Rent is $1,983. Violent Part I is 0.3 per 1,000. Property is 5.4. Median age is 37.5.
$2K ACS median rent
The official name is Old Fourth Ward. O4W is the search. Rent is $1,966 and bachelor's share is 73%. Violent Part I is 1.8 per 1,000. Property is 12.3. OSM counts 10 bars and 49 restaurants. The transit count is 0 under the 800-meter rule around the centroid, so that number is the method, not a claim that no bus runs nearby.
$2K ACS median rent
The official polygon is Inman Park. One tract. Median income is $165,413 and bachelor's share is 90%. The home median is $829,800. Rent is $2,296. Violent Part I is one report, 0.2 per 1,000. Property is 88 reports, 20.5 per 1,000. OSM counts 9 bars.
$2K ACS median rent
The official polygon is Kirkwood, the outer edge of this set. Renters are 40%. Rent is $1,898. Violent Part I is 0.5 per 1,000. Property is 6.2. OSM counts 0 bars and 11 green pieces. Median age is 34.7.
$2K ACS median rent
The official polygon is Summerhill. No census tract centroid sits inside it, so people and housing come from the tract that contains the neighborhood centroid. Crime points are still inside the polygon: 2 violent and 25 property. Violent Part I is 0.6 per 1,000. Property is 7.4. Rent is $1,769. Median age is 31.7.
$2K ACS median rent
The official polygon is North Buckhead, the north end of this set. It is not the commercial strip below it. Median income is $144,640 and rent is $2,286. Violent Part I is 1.0 per 1,000. Property is 9.5. Houses and a few offices, not a night strip.
$2K ACS median rent
The official polygon is Atlantic Station, a built block of shops and towers, not the grid next door. Bachelor's share is 89% and median age is 31.9. Rent is $2,345. Violent Part I is 1.3 per 1,000. Property is 15.6. OSM counts 1 bar and 27 restaurants.
$2K ACS median rent
The official polygon is Candler Park. One tract, population 2,542. Renters are 26% and median income is $167,607. Rent is $1,679. Violent Part I is 0.8 per 1,000, two reports. Property is 10.6. The park is the lawn. The houses are the rest.
$2K ACS median rent
The official polygon is Castleberry Hill. No census tract centroid sits inside it, so people and housing come from the tract that contains the neighborhood centroid. Crime is still the points inside the polygon: 9 violent and 85 property. Violent Part I is 2.8 per 1,000. Property is 26.7. Renters are 80%. OSM counts 6 bars.
$1K ACS median rent
The official polygon is West End, the far corner of this set. Rent is $1,263, the smallest rent here. Median income is $51,027 and median age is 45.2. Violent Part I is 7.9 per 1,000, the highest violent rate in this set, from 33 reports. Property is 24.5.
$2K ACS median rent
The official polygon is Reynoldstown. One tract, population 2,751. Median income is $145,058. Rent is $1,996. Violent Part I is 2.2 per 1,000. Property is 22.2, from 61 reports in a small polygon. OSM counts 3 bars.
$3K ACS median rent
The official polygon is East Atlanta. East Atlanta Village is the commercial search inside it, not a second polygon. Rent is $2,613, the highest in this set, and renters are only 25%, so that rent is a small renter pool. OSM counts 10 bars and 1 grocery. Violent Part I is 1.7 per 1,000. Property is 14.5. The transit count is 0 under the 800-meter rule.
Schematic neighborhood map — Buckhead to the north, downtown to the south. Click a block to open it. Distances on this drawing are not street geography. Adjacent blocks are not a claim that two neighborhoods share a border.
ACS 5-year median gross rent for Atlanta city. Up 77% since 2014.
Overlapping 5-year ACS windows (B25064), not asking rent. Figures are for the city place, household-weighted across all occupied rental units.
Atlanta ranks City Planning neighborhoods — the city’s official named geography, not NPU letters — and this site shows a relocator subset of 20, not all 248. Sweet Auburn, Georgia Tech, and the far-south and southwest plans are left off. Buckhead sits at the north of the sketch; downtown is south. There is no river on this map.
O4W, Va-Hi, EAV, and Five Points are search names inside those neighborhoods. Five Points and Fairlie-Poplar land on Downtown. East Atlanta Village lands on East Atlanta. Buckhead is more than one polygon; Buckhead Village and North Buckhead are the two in this set. Summerhill and Castleberry Hill inherit the tract that contains the centroid. School ratings are not in this snapshot, so that axis does not separate the list. The downtown park count is small OpenStreetMap pieces, not lawns. Old Fourth Ward and East Atlanta show 0 transit stops under the 800-meter rule, which is the method, not a claim that no bus runs nearby. The map is schematic.
Not a best-of list. Four cuts of the same 20 official neighborhoods.
Lower ACS rent
Survey median, not a listing
Lower Part I rate
Fewer reports per 1,000 in this city set
Published fit uses default walkable weights and a $2,500 ACS rent budget. Same order for every reader. Fit is a number inside Atlanta only.
| # | Neighborhood | Published fit | ACS median rent | Walk index | Safety index |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Downtown | 80 | $1,701 | 100 | 0 |
| 2 | Midtown | 77 | $2,052 | 90 | 26 |
| 3 | Cabbagetown | 47 | $2,059 | 10 | 100 |
| 4 | Ansley Park | 43 | $1,928 | 6 | 95 |
| 5 | Virginia-Highland | 43 | $1,830 | 10 | 79 |
| 6 | Poncey-Highland | 43 | $1,920 | 16 | 63 |
| 7 | Grant Park | 43 | $2,093 | 23 | 53 |
| 8 | Buckhead Village | 42 | $2,125 | 11 | 74 |
| 9 | Morningside | 41 | $1,983 | 5 | 89 |
| 10 | Old Fourth Ward | 40 | $1,966 | 15 | 42 |
| 11 | Inman Park | 39 | $2,296 | 19 | 21 |
| 12 | Kirkwood | 39 | $1,898 | 4 | 84 |
| 13 | Summerhill | 37 | $1,769 | 5 | 68 |
| 14 | North Buckhead | 36 | $2,286 | 4 | 58 |
| 15 | Atlantic Station | 35 | $2,345 | 9 | 32 |
| 16 | Candler Park | 35 | $1,679 | 5 | 47 |
| 17 | Castleberry Hill | 33 | $1,820 | 12 | 11 |
| 18 | West End | 31 | $1,263 | 12 | 5 |
| 19 | Reynoldstown | 30 | $1,996 | 5 | 16 |
| 20 | East Atlanta | 30 | $2,613 | 0 | 37 |
ACS median gross rent mixes every occupied rental. Walk is an in-house OSM count, not Walk Score. Safety ranks Part I rates inside Atlanta only.
Rent figures are ACS 5-year median gross rent (2020-2024, ACS 2024 5-year) mixed across unit sizes in the City of Atlanta. West End is the lowest median in this set at $1,263. That is a survey median, not this week’s asking rent for a one-bedroom.
Walk is an in-house index from OpenStreetMap groceries, cafes, parks, and transit stops inside the official polygon or within 800 meters of its centroid. It is not a Walk Score® license.
Safety ranks APD Part I rates (Oct 2025 – Sep 2026) inside this Atlanta set only. A lower index means fewer Part I reports per 1,000 ACS residents relative to the other neighborhoods here — not a guarantee that a block is safe, and not a measurement of noise.
A nearby school rating is not an assigned campus. Missing ratings sit at the middle of the scale.
Commute minutes are typical weekday estimates to named job centers, not live traffic.
Boundaries are City of Atlanta neighborhood polygons (Department of City Planning, GeopoliticalArea Neighborhood layer). Crime counts are APD Open Data Axon crime table (opendata.atlantapd.org, OpenDataWebsite_Crime_view). Rows marked Part I whose occurred-from time falls in the window. Violent here is NIBRS 09A homicide, 11A–C rape, 120 robbery, and 13A aggravated assault. Property is 220 burglary, 23A–H larceny (including theft from a vehicle and shoplifting), and 240 motor vehicle theft. Other Part I rows in the window (20) are arson and a few offenses outside this homicide, rape, robbery, aggravated-assault, burglary, larceny, and motor-vehicle-theft set. They are not in the rate. Points use the published latitude and longitude, assigned to City Planning neighborhood polygons, not police beats and not NPU letters..
ACS and APD were retrieved 2026-10-28. OSM was retrieved 2026-10-28. Editorial pages on this site were last revised Sep 2026.
Sources: U.S. Census American Community Survey, OpenStreetMap, and this city’s police open data via the method page. NabeWise is published by NabeWise Media.
How the Atlanta number is built — not a grade of the place.
Atlanta ranks City Planning neighborhoods — the city’s official named geography, not NPU letters — and this site shows a relocator subset of 20, not all 248. Sweet Auburn, Georgia Tech, and the far-south and southwest plans are left off. Buckhead sits at the north of the sketch; downtown is south. There is no river on this map.
West End has the lowest ACS 5-year median gross rent in this set at $1,263 (2020-2024 survey). A median mixes every occupied rental. It is not this week’s one-bedroom.
Mapped groceries, cafes, parks, and transit stops inside the official neighborhood or within 800 meters of its centroid. Downtown currently leads the default walkable ranking. It is not a Walk Score® license.
Official neighborhoods only — 20 on this map. O4W, Va-Hi, EAV, and Five Points are aliases on official City Planning neighborhoods, not extra polygons. The schematic map is for clicking, not for measuring a shared border.
Housing is ACS 2024 5-year (2020-2024). Crime is APD Part I for Oct 2025 – Sep 2026. OSM amenities were snapshotted 2026-08-10. Editorial copy on these pages was last revised Sep 2026.
No. A number here is a rank inside these 20 official neighborhoods, not a grade you can carry to another city.
Six axes — safety, schools, walk, cost, vibe, and optional commute — scaled only inside Atlanta, then weighted. With default walkable weights and a $2,500 ACS rent budget, Downtown is the current top match (80 published fit). Rankings never jump a city line. The formula is on the method page.
Full formula on the method page.