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#1Downtown West
$2K ACS median rent
Nicollet Mall, office towers, and a crime rate that visitor traffic inflates. Walk scores max; evening quiet depends on the block.
- Walk index
- 100
- Safety index
- 16
- Published fit
- 77
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Minneapolis · MN · 20 neighborhoods
Compare official Minneapolis neighborhoods on ACS rent, walk, safety, schools, and commute. Rankings stay inside this city.
Data period. ACS 2024 5-year (2020-2024) · MPD Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 · OSM Sep 2026. ACS and MPD 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
Nicollet Mall, office towers, and a crime rate that visitor traffic inflates. Walk scores max; evening quiet depends on the block.
$1K ACS median rent
The park is the living room; downtown is a walk. Apartment density without the warehouse look of the North Loop.
$2K ACS median rent
Converted warehouses, Target Field, and the river trail. The official neighborhood is North Loop — search Warehouse District.
$2K ACS median rent
Between Cedar Lake and the Isles. Quiet streets, a trail system, and a name that is three neighborhoods glued together.
$1K ACS median rent
Bungalows, a commercial strip, and a south-side family default between Whittier and Minnehaha Creek.
$2K ACS median rent
50th & France on the Edina line and the lowest violent rate in this set. Quiet streets, high incomes, a bus ride from downtown.
$2K ACS median rent
A village commercial node between Harriet and Bde Maka Ska. The southwest family read of the city.
$1K ACS median rent
Dinkytown is the search term; Marcy Holmes is the official neighborhood. Students, the river, and a short walk to campus.
$1K ACS median rent
Mansions on the hill above the Walker. Quieter than the Wedge, still inner, still a walk to the lakes.
$1K ACS median rent
Eat Street on Nicollet and a mix of old apartments. Denser and more restless than the Wedge.
$1K ACS median rent
Formerly CARAG. The south half of the Uptown bar shed, with more houses than Lowry Hill East.
$1K ACS median rent
The Witch's Hat tower and a pocket of houses east of campus. Official name is Prospect Park - East River Road.
$986 ACS median rent
Co-ops, the Midtown Greenway, and a river-adjacent grid south of the University. Progressive without downtown prices.
$2K ACS median rent
The lake used to be Calhoun; the official name is East Bde Maka Ska. Beach, trail, and the west edge of Uptown.
$1K ACS median rent
The Wedge is the search term; Lowry Hill East is the official polygon. Hennepin bars on one edge, quieter streets on the other. Part of what people call Uptown.
$1K ACS median rent
Lake of the Isles on the west edge and Uptown on the east. Another official piece of the Uptown search.
$1K ACS median rent
The park is a bowl; the streets around it are still mixed. Safety scores tell you to weight it honestly.
$1K ACS median rent
South of Whittier on the same grid. More houses, still a bus on Lyndale, still inner south.
$2K ACS median rent
Nordeast on the west side of the river. Grain-belt bones, galleries, and a quieter read than the North Loop.
$1K ACS median rent
Hiawatha, the creek, and a south-east grid that still feels like a neighborhood. More house than loft.
Schematic neighborhood map — Mississippi down the middle, the Chain of Lakes on the southwest. 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 Minneapolis city. Up 61% since 2014.
Overlapping 5-year ACS windows (B25064), not asking rent. Figures are for the city place, household-weighted across all occupied rental units.
Minneapolis ranks official neighborhoods. The Mississippi runs through the middle; the Chain of Lakes sits on the southwest. A neighborhood here is the city’s named unit, not a realtor cluster.
Uptown, Dinkytown, the Warehouse District, and 50th & France are search names that land inside those official lines. The drawing is for clicking, not for walking a border.
Not a best-of list. Four cuts of the same 20 official neighborhoods.
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 Minneapolis only.
| # | Neighborhood | Published fit | ACS median rent | Walk index | Safety index |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Downtown West | 77 | $1,810 | 100 | 16 |
| 2 | Loring Park | 65 | $1,187 | 54 | 53 |
| 3 | North Loop | 52 | $2,120 | 47 | 32 |
| 4 | Cedar-Isles-Dean | 48 | $1,871 | 12 | 89 |
| 5 | King Field | 48 | $1,343 | 19 | 84 |
| 6 | Fulton | 48 | $2,312 | 6 | 100 |
| 7 | Linden Hills | 47 | $1,743 | 6 | 95 |
| 8 | Marcy-Holmes | 46 | $1,288 | 22 | 58 |
| 9 | Lowry Hill | 45 | $1,275 | 11 | 74 |
| 10 | Whittier | 45 | $1,376 | 27 | 47 |
| 11 | South Uptown | 44 | $1,337 | 19 | 63 |
| 12 | Prospect Park | 44 | $1,407 | 16 | 68 |
| 13 | Seward | 42 | $986 | 25 | 42 |
| 14 | East Bde Maka Ska | 39 | $1,726 | 0 | 79 |
| 15 | Lowry Hill East | 37 | $1,250 | 22 | 0 |
| 16 | East Isles | 36 | $1,208 | 9 | 21 |
| 17 | Powderhorn Park | 35 | $1,329 | 23 | 26 |
| 18 | Lyndale | 32 | $1,112 | 19 | 11 |
| 19 | St. Anthony West | 32 | $1,809 | 2 | 37 |
| 20 | Longfellow | 30 | $1,195 | 10 | 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 Minneapolis only.
Rent figures are ACS 5-year median gross rent (2020-2024, ACS 2024 5-year) mixed across unit sizes in the City of Minneapolis. Seward is the lowest median in this set at $986. 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 MPD Part I rates (Oct 2025 – Sep 2026) inside this Minneapolis 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 City of Minneapolis Neighborhoods (Minneapolis_Neighborhoods). Crime counts are Minneapolis Police Department Crime Data (OpenDataMPLS Crime_Data).
ACS and MPD 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 Minneapolis number is built — not a grade of the place.
Minneapolis ranks official neighborhoods. The Mississippi runs through the middle; the Chain of Lakes sits on the southwest. A neighborhood here is the city’s named unit, not a realtor cluster.
Seward has the lowest ACS 5-year median gross rent in this set at $986 (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 West currently leads the default walkable ranking. It is not a Walk Score® license.
Official neighborhoods only — 20 on this map. Uptown, Dinkytown, the Warehouse District, and 50th & France are aliases, not extra neighborhoods. The schematic map is for clicking, not for measuring a shared border.
Housing is ACS 2024 5-year (2020-2024). Crime is MPD Part I for Oct 2025 – Sep 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 20 official neighborhoods, not a grade you can carry to another city.
Six axes — safety, schools, walk, cost, vibe, and optional commute — scaled only inside Minneapolis, then weighted. With default walkable weights and a $2,500 ACS rent budget, Downtown West is the current top match (77 published fit). Rankings never jump a city line. The formula is on the method page.
Full formula on the method page.