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Official neighborhood cluster: Brightwood Park, Crestwood, Petworth
Published fit 68 uses default walkable weights and a $2,500 ACS rent budget — the same number as the Washington, DC table. Your current weights score this 68.
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 18 is Brightwood Park, Crestwood, and Petworth. More house than bar, and the ACS rent median is $1,730 — below the northwest clusters. Georgia Avenue is the spine. Columbia Heights is south.
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.
136 violent · 940 property · 26.9 per 1k (Sep 2025 – Aug 2026)+13 vs city set
Limited school data0 vs city set
OSM: 34 groceries · 16 cafes · 134 transit · 78 parks+34 vs city set
$1,730 ACS median vs published $2,500 rent budget+1 vs city set
OSM: 16 cafes · 66 restaurants · 13 bars · 78 parks+3 vs city set
From Petworth, a typical weekday is 24 min to Downtown, 28 min to Capitol, 36 min to Navy Yard. Not live traffic.
Downtown is the fastest of these three job centers from here.
Penn Quarter, K Street · +8 min vs the city-set median · fastest of these three
Union Station, the Capitol · +11 min vs the city-set median
Capitol Riverfront · +12 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 $1,730 — every occupied rental mixed together, not the 1-bed in the window.
That is 15% of median household income — under the 30% HUD line. A household at this area’s median income ($140K) could “afford” about $3,491 a month at 30% of pay.
36% of households rent. Median home value is $809,640.
ACS 5-year median gross rent for Washington city. Up 50% since 2014. Petworth is 11% below 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: 34 groceries, 16 cafes, 78 parks, and 134 transit stops.
Daily errands and coffee are realistic on foot. Parks are close — 78 mapped parks in that radius. Transit is dense (134 stops or stations).
16 cafes and 66 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 18 of the other 19 areas in this city.
ACS 2024 5-year (2020-2024) · 11 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 18 is Brightwood Park, Crestwood, and Petworth. More house than bar, and the ACS rent median is $1,730 — below the northwest clusters. Georgia Avenue is the spine. Columbia Heights is south.
Scores on this page stay inside Washington, DC. Brightwood Park, Crestwood, Petworth 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 Petworth.
Last 90 days, snapshot 2026-09-01. Method.
Straight answers from the numbers on this page.
Petworth is middle of the pack for DC Code here (safety 63 vs city 50). MPD logged 3.4 violent and 23.5 property incidents per 1,000 residents — 26.9 combined. Visitors count in those numbers. This is not a judgment of who lives here.
ACS median rent is $1,730 — studios through large apartments mixed together. About 36% of households rent. Median home value is $809,640. Survey medians, not a listing you can message tonight.
Walk is 70 here vs 36 for the Washington, DC set — a grocery run and a coffee on foot are realistic. Inside 800 meters: 34 groceries, 16 cafes, 134 transit stops, 78 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 39. That rating is not your assigned campus.
24 typical weekday minutes to Downtown. Not the app on your phone this hour. Other job centers are further down this page.
About 39,929 people. Median income $140K. 61% have a bachelor's or higher.
Eckington, Columbia Heights, LeDroit Park sit closest on this map. If you are choosing between two official neighborhood clusters, start with Petworth vs Eckington.
Closest on this schematic map, scored with the same published walkable weights as the Washington, DC table. Distances here are not street geography.
Petworth vs EckingtonPetworth vs Columbia HeightsPetworth vs LeDroit Park
$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 25 is Union Station, Stanton Park, and Kingman Park. Search H Street and you land here, not in Trinidad. The station and the corridor pull visitors; property rate is 38.2 per 1,000. Capitol Hill is the row houses south.
$2K ACS median rent
Cluster 21 is Edgewood, Bloomingdale, Truxton Circle, and Eckington. Search Bloomingdale or Truxton and you land here, not on a second polygon. Houses and a Metro spine. Trinidad is east. The 14th Street strip is Logan Circle, 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.
$2K ACS median rent
Cluster 23 is Ivy City, Arboretum, Trinidad, and Carver Langston. Search Ivy City or Carver Langston and you land here. The corridor north of Capitol Hill is Stanton Park, Cluster 25 — not this row. ACS rent is $1,754. The violent rate is 6.1 per 1,000.