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#1Downtown
$2K ACS median rent
Towers, the Arts District, and a crime file inflated by visitors. New-urban living with a nightlife tax — same pattern as the Loop or FiDi.
- Walk index
- 100
- Safety index
- 0
- Published fit
- 75
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Los Angeles · CA · 22 neighborhoods
Compare official Los Angeles neighborhoods on ACS rent, walk, safety, schools, and commute. Rankings stay inside this city.
Data period. ACS 2024 5-year (2020-2024) · LAPD Oct 2025 – Aug 2026 · OSM Sep 2026. ACS and LAPD retrieved 2026-09-01; OSM retrieved 2026-09-01. Editorial copy last revised Sep 2026.
Published walkable weights — same order as the table below. Fit is an in-house score, not a resident review.
$2K ACS median rent
Towers, the Arts District, and a crime file inflated by visitors. New-urban living with a nightlife tax — same pattern as the Loop or FiDi.
$3K ACS median rent
UCLA at the north edge, a village that still walks, and rentals that outnumber the houses. The westside that still has a bus.
$2K ACS median rent
24-hour food, the Purple Line, and the densest rentals in the subset. Walkable central LA that still has a nightlife clock.
$3K ACS median rent
San Vicente, school runs, and a median home that assumes you already made it. Quiet westside, on purpose.
$2K ACS median rent
The Boulevard, the clubs, and a lot of visitors in the crime file. Nightlife is the product; the residential streets are quieter than the postcard.
$2K ACS median rent
Valley flats, Ventura Boulevard, and a backyard if you pay for it. The family default north of the hills.
$2K ACS median rent
Rentals, the Expo Line, and a westside zip that still has a grocery you can walk to. The practical neighbor of Mar Vista.
$2K ACS median rent
Little Osaka, Sawtelle Boulevard, and the 405 in earshot. Westside food without Brentwood prices.
$2K ACS median rent
Thai Town, Little Armenia, and the Red Line. Density without the Hollywood Boulevard circus.
$2K ACS median rent
Bungalows, a farmers’ market, and the beach ten minutes south. Family westside that is not trying to be Santa Monica.
$2K ACS median rent
York Boulevard, craftsman houses, and a Gold Line stop. Northeast that gentrified without becoming a postcard.
$2K ACS median rent
Colorado Boulevard, Occidental nearby, and houses that still have yards. Northeast family without the westside premium.
$2K ACS median rent
Sound stages, a walkable Ventura strip, and the canyon on the south edge. Valley living that still feels central.
$2K ACS median rent
The Red Line’s north end, the Arts District, and apartments that still price like the Valley. Nightlife without the Hollywood Boulevard tax.
$2K ACS median rent
Griffith Park at the north edge, Hillhurst cafes, and a village that still walks after dark. Eastside default for people who want hills and a grocery.
$2K ACS median rent
Miracle Mile museums, Park La Brea towers, and Wilshire buses. Central without downtown’s visitor count.
$3K ACS median rent
Abbot Kinney, the boardwalk, and canals that still photograph. The ocean is the amenity; the visitors are the tax.
$2K ACS median rent
A small commercial strip, the river on the east, and Glendale in walking distance. Quiet eastside that stayed a village.
$2K ACS median rent
The reservoir, Sunset Junction, and hills that make every errand a climb. Eastside that still feels like a neighborhood, not a brand.
$2K ACS median rent
The lake, Sunset, and a hillside that looks at downtown. Nightlife that still has rentals.
$3K ACS median rent
Windsor Square houses, Larchmont Village, and a median that prices like the westside. Central, quiet, and not trying to be a scene.
$3K ACS median rent
Melrose, Canter’s, and a district that still has a nightlife strip. Compact, central, and not cheap.
Schematic neighborhood map — Pacific on the left, the Valley above the hills, downtown on the southeast. Click a block to open it. Distances on this drawing are not street geography. Adjacent blocks are not a claim that two neighborhoods share a border.
ACS 5-year median gross rent for Los Angeles city. Up 62% since 2014.
Overlapping 5-year ACS windows (B25064), not asking rent. Figures are for the city place, household-weighted across all occupied rental units.
Los Angeles neighborhoods here follow the Los Angeles Times neighborhood map, the widely used named geography for the city — not a separate city planning layer. The Pacific is west; the Valley sits above the hills on the sketch.
Venice, Silver Lake, K-Town, NoHo, and DTLA are search names inside those polygons. The map is schematic. Adjacent on the drawing is not a shared boulevard.
Not a best-of list. Four cuts of the same 22 official neighborhoods.
Lower ACS rent
Survey median, not a listing
Lower Part I rate
Fewer reports per 1,000 in this city set
Published fit uses default walkable weights and a $2,500 ACS rent budget. Same order for every reader. Fit is a number inside Los Angeles only.
| # | Neighborhood | Published fit | ACS median rent | Walk index | Safety index |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Downtown | 75 | $2,275 | 100 | 0 |
| 2 | Westwood | 63 | $2,746 | 36 | 100 |
| 3 | Koreatown | 57 | $1,762 | 55 | 33 |
| 4 | Brentwood | 52 | $2,944 | 17 | 95 |
| 5 | Hollywood | 52 | $1,961 | 55 | 10 |
| 6 | Sherman Oaks | 51 | $2,321 | 26 | 67 |
| 7 | Palms | 51 | $2,316 | 22 | 86 |
| 8 | Sawtelle | 49 | $2,444 | 32 | 38 |
| 9 | East Hollywood | 49 | $1,696 | 42 | 43 |
| 10 | Mar Vista | 48 | $2,303 | 11 | 90 |
| 11 | Highland Park | 48 | $1,851 | 25 | 76 |
| 12 | Eagle Rock | 47 | $1,781 | 15 | 81 |
| 13 | Studio City | 43 | $2,438 | 21 | 29 |
| 14 | North Hollywood | 43 | $2,022 | 28 | 48 |
| 15 | Los Feliz | 43 | $2,142 | 9 | 71 |
| 16 | Mid-Wilshire | 43 | $2,442 | 19 | 57 |
| 17 | Venice | 37 | $2,830 | 21 | 14 |
| 18 | Atwater Village | 37 | $2,311 | 3 | 62 |
| 19 | Silver Lake | 36 | $2,105 | 11 | 19 |
| 20 | Echo Park | 36 | $2,008 | 18 | 24 |
| 21 | Hancock Park | 35 | $2,880 | 0 | 52 |
| 22 | Fairfax | 28 | $2,896 | 8 | 5 |
ACS median gross rent mixes every occupied rental. Walk is an in-house OSM count, not Walk Score. Safety ranks Part I rates inside Los Angeles only.
Rent figures are ACS 5-year median gross rent (2020-2024, ACS 2024 5-year) mixed across unit sizes in the City of Los Angeles. East Hollywood is the lowest median in this set at $1,696. That is a survey median, not this week’s asking rent for a one-bedroom.
Walk is an in-house index from OpenStreetMap groceries, cafes, parks, and transit stops inside the official polygon or within 800 meters of its centroid. It is not a Walk Score® license.
Safety ranks LAPD Part I rates (Oct 2025 – Aug 2026) inside this Los Angeles set only. A lower index means fewer Part I reports per 1,000 ACS residents relative to the other neighborhoods here — not a guarantee that a block is safe, and not a measurement of noise.
A nearby school rating is not an assigned campus. Missing ratings sit at the middle of the scale.
Commute minutes are typical weekday estimates to named job centers, not live traffic.
Boundaries are LA Times Neighborhood Boundaries, City of LA GeoHub (d6c55385a0e749519f238b77135eafac). Crime counts are LAPD NIBRS Offenses Dataset (k7nn-b2ep).
ACS and LAPD were retrieved 2026-09-01. OSM was retrieved 2026-09-01. Editorial pages on this site were last revised Sep 2026.
Sources: U.S. Census American Community Survey, OpenStreetMap, and this city’s police open data via the method page. NabeWise is published by NabeWise Media.
How the Los Angeles number is built — not a grade of the place.
Los Angeles neighborhoods here follow the Los Angeles Times neighborhood map, the widely used named geography for the city — not a separate city planning layer. The Pacific is west; the Valley sits above the hills on the sketch.
East Hollywood has the lowest ACS 5-year median gross rent in this set at $1,696 (2020-2024 survey). A median mixes every occupied rental. It is not this week’s one-bedroom.
Mapped groceries, cafes, parks, and transit stops inside the official neighborhood or within 800 meters of its centroid. Downtown currently leads the default walkable ranking. It is not a Walk Score® license.
Official neighborhoods only — 22 on this map. Venice, Silver Lake, K-Town, NoHo, and DTLA are aliases on this Los Angeles Times neighborhood set. The schematic map is for clicking, not for measuring a shared border.
Housing is ACS 2024 5-year (2020-2024). Crime is LAPD Part I for Oct 2025 – Aug 2026. OSM amenities were snapshotted 2026-09-01. Editorial copy on these pages was last revised Sep 2026.
No. A number here is a rank inside these 22 official neighborhoods, not a grade you can carry to another city.
Six axes — safety, schools, walk, cost, vibe, and optional commute — scaled only inside Los Angeles, then weighted. With default walkable weights and a $2,500 ACS rent budget, Downtown is the current top match (75 published fit). Rankings never jump a city line. The formula is on the method page.
Full formula on the method page.