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Official neighborhood: Virginia Highland
Published fit 43 uses default walkable weights and a $2,500 ACS rent budget — the same number as the Atlanta table. Your current weights score this 43.
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.
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.
Best in Atlanta for familiesWalkable AtlantaUnder $2,500 rent
Default walkable weights, $2,500 ACS rent budget. Same axes as the city table and the FAQ.
6 violent · 59 property · 7.5 per 1k (Oct 2025 – Sep 2026)+29 vs city set
Limited school data0 vs city set
OSM: 2 groceries · 5 cafes · 4 transit · 10 parks-8 vs city set
$1,830 ACS median vs published $2,500 rent budget0 vs city set
OSM: 5 cafes · 23 restaurants · 13 bars · 10 parks-6 vs city set
From Virginia-Highland, a typical weekday is 16 min to Downtown, 10 min to Midtown, 16 min to Buckhead. Not live traffic.
Midtown is the fastest of these three job centers from here.
Five Points, the capitol · +2 min vs the city-set median
Midtown offices · -4 min vs the city-set median · fastest of these three
Buckhead Village · -6 min vs the city-set median
Minutes are baked from neighborhood geography to three job centers — not Google, not this hour’s traffic.
The ACS median rent is $1,830 — every occupied rental mixed together, not the 1-bed in the window.
That is 16% of median household income — under the 30% HUD line. A household at this area’s median income ($135K) could “afford” about $3,367 a month at 30% of pay.
40% of households rent. Median home value is $801,621.
ACS 5-year median gross rent for Atlanta city. Up 77% since 2014. Virginia-Highland is 7% above the 2024 city median.
Overlapping 5-year ACS windows (B25064), not asking rent. Census does not publish a rent series for each official neighborhood, so the line is the city place. The dashed mark is this area’s ACS 2024 median.
HUD treats 30% of income as the cost-burden line. We do not split ACS rent into 1-bed vs 2-bed. Method.
Within a short walk of this official neighborhood: 2 groceries, 5 cafes, 10 parks, and 4 transit stops.
A grocery run on foot is possible; some trips will still need a ride. Parks are close — 10 mapped parks in that radius. Transit is present (4 stops or stations).
5 cafes and 23 restaurants make this one of the busier food pockets in the Atlanta set.
OpenStreetMap, 800 meters. Not a Walk Score license. More groceries than 6 of the other 19 areas in this city.
ACS 2024 5-year (2020-2024) · 3 census tracts · APD Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 · OSM 2026-08-10
Crime is APD Part I reports per 1,000 ACS residents — not a judgment of who lives here. Home and rent figures are ACS medians, not live MLS. Read the method.
What it is like to live here, beyond the scores.
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.
Scores on this page stay inside Atlanta. Virginia Highland is the official City Planning neighborhood; other names are searches, not extra polygons. School ratings are not in this snapshot. A neighbor on the schematic map is not a shared fence. APD Part I here is NIBRS homicide 09A, rape 11A–C, robbery 120, and aggravated assault 13A as violent, plus burglary 220, larceny 23A–H, and motor vehicle theft 240 as property. Arson and the other Part I rows outside that set are not in the rate. Police beats and NPU letters are not this map.
Compiled from Zillow neighborhood guides, 5280 Magazine, Chicago and San Francisco resident guides, Mpls With Love, Eastside LA reporting, Seattle Times coverage, Boston planning-neighborhood writing, Philadelphia neighborhood writing, Portland neighborhood writing, Washington neighborhood-cluster writing, San Diego community-plan writing, Atlanta neighborhood writing, and local writing, 2025–2026. Editorial — not part of the fit score.
Public posts from r/Atlanta that mention this neighborhood. Not Nextdoor, not people on this block, and not part of the fit score.
No r/Atlanta posts in this snapshot mentioned Virginia-Highland.
Last 90 days, snapshot 2026-09-01. Method.
Straight answers from the numbers on this page.
Virginia-Highland sits on the quieter side of this Atlanta map (safety 79 vs city 50). APD logged 0.7 violent and 6.8 property incidents per 1,000 residents — 7.5 combined. Visitors count in those numbers. This is not a judgment of who lives here.
ACS median rent is $1,830 — studios through large apartments mixed together. About 40% of households rent. Median home value is $801,621. Survey medians, not a listing you can message tonight.
Walk is 10 here vs 18 for the Atlanta set — you will likely drive or ride for a weekly shop. Inside 800 meters: 2 groceries, 5 cafes, 4 transit stops, 10 parks. Not a Walk Score license.
There is more night and visitor traffic in the mix — not the quietest family default. Nearby school rating is thin in this dataset. Median age is 37.9. That rating is not your assigned campus.
16 typical weekday minutes to Downtown. Not the app on your phone this hour. Other job centers are further down this page.
About 8,701 people. Median income $135K. 83% have a bachelor's or higher.
Poncey-Highland, Morningside, Candler Park sit closest on this map. If you are choosing between two official neighborhoods, start with Virginia-Highland vs Poncey-Highland.
Closest on this schematic map, scored with the same published walkable weights as the Atlanta table. Distances here are not street geography.
Virginia-Highland vs Poncey-HighlandVirginia-Highland vs MorningsideVirginia-Highland vs Candler Park
$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 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 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 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 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.