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Official neighborhood cluster: West End, Foggy Bottom, GWU
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 61.
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 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.
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Default walkable weights, $2,500 ACS rent budget. Same axes as the city table and the FAQ.
25 violent · 223 property · 15.6 per 1k (Sep 2025 – Aug 2026)+50 vs city set
Limited school data0 vs city set
OSM: 12 groceries · 45 cafes · 68 transit · 71 parks+4 vs city set
$2,479 ACS median vs published $2,500 rent budget+1 vs city set
OSM: 45 cafes · 131 restaurants · 8 bars · 71 parks+18 vs city set
From Foggy Bottom, a typical weekday is 10 min to Downtown, 18 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 $2,479 — every occupied rental mixed together, not the 1-bed in the window.
That is 29% of median household income — under the 30% HUD line. A household at this area’s median income ($104K) could “afford” about $2,606 a month at 30% of pay.
71% of households rent. Median home value is $696,389.
ACS 5-year median gross rent for Washington city. Up 50% since 2014. Foggy Bottom is 27% 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, 45 cafes, 71 parks, and 68 transit stops.
Daily errands and coffee are realistic on foot. Parks are close — 71 mapped parks in that radius. Transit is dense (68 stops or stations).
45 cafes and 131 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) · 5 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 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.
Scores on this page stay inside Washington, DC. West End, Foggy Bottom, GWU 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 Foggy Bottom.
Last 90 days, snapshot 2026-09-01. Method.
Straight answers from the numbers on this page.
Foggy Bottom sits on the quieter side of this Washington, DC map (safety 100 vs city 50). MPD logged 1.6 violent and 14.0 property incidents per 1,000 residents — 15.6 combined. Visitors count in those numbers. This is not a judgment of who lives here.
ACS median rent is $2,479 — studios through large apartments mixed together. About 71% of households rent. Median home value is $696,389. Survey medians, not a listing you can message tonight.
Walk is 40 here vs 36 for the Washington, DC set — you will likely drive or ride for a weekly shop. Inside 800 meters: 12 groceries, 45 cafes, 68 transit stops, 71 parks. Not a Walk Score license.
Family fit depends on the school rating nearby and how much quiet you want. Nearby school rating is thin in this dataset. Median age is 28.8. 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 15,926 people. Median income $104K. 90% have a bachelor's or higher.
Dupont Circle, Georgetown, Logan Circle sit closest on this map. If you are choosing between two official neighborhood clusters, start with Foggy Bottom 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.
Foggy Bottom vs Dupont CircleFoggy Bottom vs GeorgetownFoggy Bottom vs Logan Circle
$2K ACS median rent
Cluster 8 is Downtown, Chinatown, Penn Quarters, Mount Vernon Square, and North Capitol Street. The GIS spelling is Penn Quarters. Property rate is the highest in this set, 75.4 per 1,000, and the park count of 140 includes the Mall and people who do not sleep here. That is visitors and civic land, not a score for every side street.
$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 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.
$3K ACS median rent
Cluster 4 is Georgetown and Burleith/Hillandale. Search Burleith and you land here. ACS home value is $1,357,427, the highest in this set. Violent rate is 0.8 per 1,000. The shops pull the property count to 36.7. Foggy Bottom is east.