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Official neighborhood cluster: Kalorama Heights, Adams Morgan, Lanier Heights
Published fit 46 uses default walkable weights and a $2,500 ACS rent budget — the same number as the Washington, DC table. Your current weights score this 45.
Data period. ACS 2024 5-year (2020-2024) · MPD Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · OSM Oct 2026. ACS and MPD retrieved 2026-10-01; OSM retrieved 2026-10-01. Editorial copy last revised Sep 2026.
Cluster 1 is Kalorama Heights, Adams Morgan, and Lanier Heights. Search AdMo and you land here. 18th Street is the night; the ACS rent median is $2,350. Columbia Heights is the larger cluster north.
Best in Washington, DC for familiesWalkable Washington, DCUnder $2,500 rent
Default walkable weights, $2,500 ACS rent budget. Same axes as the city table and the FAQ.
43 violent · 511 property · 29.5 per 1k (Sep 2025 – Aug 2026)+3 vs city set
Limited school data0 vs city set
OSM: 15 groceries · 22 cafes · 49 transit · 30 parks-15 vs city set
$2,350 ACS median vs published $2,500 rent budget+1 vs city set
OSM: 22 cafes · 96 restaurants · 31 bars · 30 parks-3 vs city set
From Adams Morgan, a typical weekday is 16 min to Downtown, 22 min to Capitol, 28 min to Navy Yard. Not live traffic.
Downtown is the fastest of these three job centers from here.
Penn Quarter, K Street · at the city-set median · fastest of these three
Union Station, the Capitol · +5 min vs the city-set median
Capitol Riverfront · +4 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 $2,350 — every occupied rental mixed together, not the 1-bed in the window.
That is 19% of median household income — under the 30% HUD line. A household at this area’s median income ($151K) could “afford” about $3,777 a month at 30% of pay.
63% of households rent. Median home value is $869,142.
ACS 5-year median gross rent for Washington city. Up 50% since 2014. Adams Morgan is 20% 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 cluster: 15 groceries, 22 cafes, 30 parks, and 49 transit stops.
Daily errands and coffee are realistic on foot. Parks are close — 30 mapped parks in that radius. Transit is dense (49 stops or stations).
22 cafes and 96 restaurants make this one of the busier food pockets in the Washington, DC set.
OpenStreetMap, 800 meters. Not a Walk Score license. More groceries than 12 of the other 19 areas in this city.
ACS 2024 5-year (2020-2024) · 7 census tracts · MPD Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · OSM 2026-10-01
Crime is MPD DC Code 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.
Cluster 1 is Kalorama Heights, Adams Morgan, and Lanier Heights. Search AdMo and you land here. 18th Street is the night; the ACS rent median is $2,350. Columbia Heights is the larger cluster north.
Scores on this page stay inside Washington, DC. Kalorama Heights, Adams Morgan, Lanier Heights is the official neighborhood cluster; 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. MPD counts are DC Code categories, not FBI Part I.
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, and local writing, 2025–2026. Editorial — not part of the fit score.
Public posts from r/washingtondc that mention this neighborhood. Not Nextdoor, not people on this block, and not part of the fit score.
No r/washingtondc posts in this snapshot mentioned Adams Morgan.
Last 90 days, snapshot 2026-09-01. Method.
Straight answers from the numbers on this page.
Adams Morgan is middle of the pack for DC Code here (safety 53 vs city 50). MPD logged 2.3 violent and 27.2 property incidents per 1,000 residents — 29.5 combined. Visitors count in those numbers. This is not a judgment of who lives here.
ACS median rent is $2,350 — studios through large apartments mixed together. About 63% of households rent. Median home value is $869,142. Survey medians, not a listing you can message tonight.
Walk is 21 here vs 36 for the Washington, DC set — you will likely drive or ride for a weekly shop. Inside 800 meters: 15 groceries, 22 cafes, 49 transit stops, 30 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 36.1. 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 18,777 people. Median income $151K. 91% have a bachelor's or higher.
Dupont Circle, Cleveland Park, Columbia Heights sit closest on this map. If you are choosing between two official neighborhood clusters, start with Adams Morgan vs Dupont Circle.
Closest on this schematic map, scored with the same published walkable weights as the Washington, DC table. Distances here are not street geography.
Adams Morgan vs Dupont CircleAdams Morgan vs Cleveland ParkAdams Morgan vs Columbia Heights
$2K ACS median rent
Cluster 6 is Dupont Circle and Connecticut Avenue/K Street. The circle is the lawn and the night. OSM counted 245 restaurants in or near the cluster — visitors write the property rate, 62.6 per 1,000. Logan Circle is east. Adams Morgan is north.
$2K ACS median rent
Cluster 2 is Columbia Heights, Mt. Pleasant, Pleasant Plains, and Park View — one polygon, not four. It is the largest population in this set, 51,000. Search Mt. Pleasant and you still land here. Petworth is north.
$2K ACS median rent
Cluster 15 is Cleveland Park, Woodley Park, Massachusetts Avenue Heights, and Woodland-Normanstone Terrace. Search Woodley Park and you land here. Violent rate is the lowest in this set, 0.6 per 1,000. ACS home value is $1,270,906. Adams Morgan is the night south of here.
$2K ACS median rent
Cluster 11 is Friendship Heights, American University Park, and Tenleytown. Search Friendship Heights or AU Park and you land here. Median age is 47, the oldest in this set, and ACS income is $239,075. About 28% of households rent. Cleveland Park is south.
$3K ACS median rent
Cluster 3 is Howard University, LeDroit Park, and Cardozo. The name on this row is LeDroit. The 14th Street strip belongs on Logan Circle, Cluster 7 — not this polygon. ACS rent is $2,752. The property rate is 57.8 per 1,000 because that edge is busy.