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Official neighborhood cluster: Union Station, Stanton Park, Kingman Park
Published fit 58 uses default walkable weights and a $2,500 ACS rent budget — the same number as the Washington, DC table. Your current weights score this 56.
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 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.
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.
163 violent · 1343 property · 42.8 per 1k (Sep 2025 – Aug 2026)-34 vs city set
Limited school data0 vs city set
OSM: 20 groceries · 22 cafes · 129 transit · 75 parks+24 vs city set
$2,490 ACS median vs published $2,500 rent budget+1 vs city set
OSM: 22 cafes · 101 restaurants · 27 bars · 75 parks+12 vs city set
From Stanton Park, a typical weekday is 14 min to Downtown, 8 min to Capitol, 18 min to Navy Yard. Not live traffic.
Capitol is the fastest of these three job centers from here.
Penn Quarter, K Street · -2 min vs the city-set median
Union Station, the Capitol · -9 min vs the city-set median · fastest of these three
Capitol Riverfront · -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 $2,490 — every occupied rental mixed together, not the 1-bed in the window.
That is 21% of median household income — under the 30% HUD line. A household at this area’s median income ($146K) could “afford” about $3,639 a month at 30% of pay.
60% of households rent. Median home value is $943,553.
ACS 5-year median gross rent for Washington city. Up 50% since 2014. Stanton Park 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: 20 groceries, 22 cafes, 75 parks, and 129 transit stops.
Daily errands and coffee are realistic on foot. Parks are close — 75 mapped parks in that radius. Transit is dense (129 stops or stations).
22 cafes and 101 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 17 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 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.
Scores on this page stay inside Washington, DC. Union Station, Stanton Park, Kingman Park 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 Stanton Park.
Last 90 days, snapshot 2026-09-01. Method.
Straight answers from the numbers on this page.
Stanton Park shows more DC Code than most of this Washington, DC set (safety 16 vs city 50). MPD logged 4.6 violent and 38.2 property incidents per 1,000 residents — 42.8 combined. Visitors count in those numbers. This is not a judgment of who lives here.
ACS median rent is $2,490 — studios through large apartments mixed together. About 60% of households rent. Median home value is $943,553. Survey medians, not a listing you can message tonight.
Walk is 60 here vs 36 for the Washington, DC set — some errands work on foot; some still need a ride. Inside 800 meters: 20 groceries, 22 cafes, 129 transit stops, 75 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 34.2. That rating is not your assigned campus.
14 typical weekday minutes to Downtown. Not the app on your phone this hour. Other job centers are further down this page.
About 35,148 people. Median income $146K. 82% have a bachelor's or higher.
Capitol Hill, Eckington, Logan Circle sit closest on this map. If you are choosing between two official neighborhood clusters, start with Stanton Park vs Capitol Hill.
Closest on this schematic map, scored with the same published walkable weights as the Washington, DC table. Distances here are not street geography.
Stanton Park vs Capitol HillStanton Park vs EckingtonStanton Park 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 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 26 is Capitol Hill and Lincoln Park. Row houses, the park, and a violent rate of 1.6 per 1,000. Eastern Market is the errand people mean. Navy Yard is the new buildings south, its own cluster. The corridor north of here is Stanton Park.
$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.
$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.