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Official neighborhood cluster: Dupont Circle, Connecticut Avenue/K Street
Published fit 64 uses default walkable weights and a $2,500 ACS rent budget — the same number as the Washington, DC table. Your current weights score this 64.
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 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.
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.
66 violent · 939 property · 67.0 per 1k (Sep 2025 – Aug 2026)-45 vs city set
Limited school data0 vs city set
OSM: 12 groceries · 72 cafes · 122 transit · 54 parks+31 vs city set
$2,255 ACS median vs published $2,500 rent budget+1 vs city set
OSM: 72 cafes · 245 restaurants · 55 bars · 54 parks+46 vs city set
From Dupont Circle, a typical weekday is 10 min to Downtown, 16 min to Capitol, 24 min to Navy Yard. Not live traffic.
Downtown is the fastest of these three job centers from here.
Penn Quarter, K Street · -6 min vs the city-set median · fastest of these three
Union Station, the Capitol · -1 min vs the city-set median
Capitol Riverfront · at 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 $2,255 — every occupied rental mixed together, not the 1-bed in the window.
That is 23% of median household income — under the 30% HUD line. A household at this area’s median income ($116K) could “afford” about $2,900 a month at 30% of pay.
66% of households rent. Median home value is $547,867.
ACS 5-year median gross rent for Washington city. Up 50% since 2014. Dupont Circle is 15% 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: 12 groceries, 72 cafes, 54 parks, and 122 transit stops.
Daily errands and coffee are realistic on foot. Parks are close — 54 mapped parks in that radius. Transit is dense (122 stops or stations).
72 cafes and 245 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 10 of the other 19 areas in this city.
ACS 2024 5-year (2020-2024) · 6 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 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.
Scores on this page stay inside Washington, DC. Dupont Circle, Connecticut Avenue/K Street 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 Dupont Circle.
Last 90 days, snapshot 2026-09-01. Method.
Straight answers from the numbers on this page.
Dupont Circle shows more DC Code than most of this Washington, DC set (safety 5 vs city 50). MPD logged 4.4 violent and 62.6 property incidents per 1,000 residents — 67.0 combined. Visitors count in those numbers. This is not a judgment of who lives here.
ACS median rent is $2,255 — studios through large apartments mixed together. About 66% of households rent. Median home value is $547,867. Survey medians, not a listing you can message tonight.
Walk is 67 here vs 36 for the Washington, DC set — some errands work on foot; some still need a ride. Inside 800 meters: 12 groceries, 72 cafes, 122 transit stops, 54 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 33.6. That rating is not your assigned campus.
10 typical weekday minutes to Downtown. Not the app on your phone this hour. Other job centers are further down this page.
About 14,998 people. Median income $116K. 91% have a bachelor's or higher.
Adams Morgan, Foggy Bottom, Logan Circle sit closest on this map. If you are choosing between two official neighborhood clusters, start with Dupont Circle vs Adams Morgan.
Closest on this schematic map, scored with the same published walkable weights as the Washington, DC table. Distances here are not street geography.
Dupont Circle vs Adams MorganDupont Circle vs Foggy BottomDupont Circle vs Logan Circle
$2K ACS median rent
Cluster 5 is West End, Foggy Bottom, and GWU. The campus pulls the median age to 28.8, the youngest in this set. Property rate is the lowest here, 14.0 per 1,000. Georgetown is the hill west. Downtown is the Mall side — a different cluster.
$2K ACS median rent
Cluster 7 is Shaw and Logan Circle. Search Shaw or U Street and you land here, not on the Howard cluster to the north. 14th Street is the strip; the side blocks are houses. Property rate is 21.4 per 1,000, quieter than Dupont’s visitor count. Dupont is west.
$2K ACS median rent
Cluster 14 is Cathedral Heights, McLean Gardens, and Glover Park. Wisconsin Avenue is the errand. Violent rate is 0.9 per 1,000. Georgetown is south; Tenleytown is north. It is not Georgetown.
$2K ACS median rent
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.
$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.