67fit
West Village
$3K median rent
West 4th, brownstone streets that ignore the grid, and rents that assume you already live here. The postcard is the product.
NightlifeWalk 68Safety 24
New York/East Village
60fit
East Village
Official neighborhood: East Village
Data vintage. ACS 2024 5-year · NYPD Oct 2025 – Jun 2026 · OSM Sep 2026 · updated Sep 2026
St. Marks to Tompkins, bars stacked on bars, and a residual punk that the brunch menus cannot quite kill.
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Best in New York for familiesWalkable New YorkUnder $2,500 rent
Why this score
Safety
43
111 violent · 752 property · 14.5 per 1k (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026)-7 vs city set
Schools
27
Rating 6.6 / 10 nearby-20 vs city set
Walk
53
OSM: 88 groceries · 98 cafes · 105 transit · 120 parks+13 vs city set
Cost
92
$2,399 ACS median vs your rent budget+6 vs city set
Vibe
75
OSM: 98 cafes · 461 restaurants · 166 bars · 120 parks+38 vs city set
Commute to work
From East Village, a typical weekday is 16 min to Midtown, 15 min to FiDi, 21 min to Downtown Brooklyn. Not live traffic.
FiDi is the fastest of these three job centers from here.
Midtown
16 min
Times Square, Hudson Yards · -11 min vs the city-set median
FiDi
15 min
Wall Street, ferries · -14 min vs the city-set median · fastest of these three
Downtown Brooklyn
21 min
BAM, Dumbo, Borough Hall · -1 min vs the city-set median
Minutes are baked from neighborhood geography to three job centers — not Google, not this hour’s traffic.
Cost of living
The ACS median rent is $2,399 — every occupied rental mixed together, not the 1-bed in the window.
That is 27% of median household income — under the 30% HUD line. A household at this area’s median income ($105K) could “afford” about $2,637 a month at 30% of pay.
83% of households rent. Median home value is $1,076,273.
ACS median rent
$2,399
30% income budget
$2,637
Rent / income
27%
Median home
$1,076,273
Rent since 2014
ACS 5-year median gross rent for New York city. Up 48% since 2014. East Village is 32% 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 walk
Within a short walk of this official neighborhood: 88 groceries, 98 cafes, 120 parks, and 105 transit stops.
Daily errands and coffee are realistic on foot. Parks are close — 120 mapped parks in that radius. Transit is dense (105 stops or stations).
98 cafes and 461 restaurants make this one of the busier food pockets in the New York set.
OpenStreetMap, 800 meters. Not a Walk Score license. More groceries than 15 of the other 21 areas in this city.
Population
59,866
Median age
33.5
Median income
$105K
Renters
83%
Bachelor+
69%
Violent / 1k
1.9
Property / 1k
12.6
ACS 2024 5-year (2020-2024) · 12 census tracts · NYPD Oct 2025 – Jun 2026 · OSM 2026-09-01
Nightlife
Crime is NYPD Part I 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.
On the ground
What it is like to live here, beyond the scores.
St. Marks to Tompkins, bars stacked on bars, and a residual punk that the brunch menus cannot quite kill. Young-professional roundups still send people here for nightlife. Tompkins Square is the release valve. The 6 and the L are the trains.
Noise is the deal. Housing is tenements and new condos sharing airshafts. Weight nightlife and walk. Safety is finer than the reputation. If you want the same downtown without the bar crawl as a lifestyle, the Lower East Side’s daytime blocks or Chelsea’s galleries are the forks.
Compiled from Zillow neighborhood guides, 5280 Magazine, Chicago and San Francisco resident guides, Mpls With Love, Eastside LA reporting, Seattle Times coverage, and local writing, 2025–2026. Editorial — not part of the fit score.
Reported here lately
City 311 service requests in this official unit, last 14 days. This is what neighbors filed with the city — not a chat thread, and not part of the fit score.
1,267 reports
- Noise - Residential150
- Encampment117
- Illegal Parking94
- Noise - Street/Sidewalk78
- Noise - Commercial64
- Dirty Condition
- Panhandling
- UNSANITARY CONDITION
- Blocked Driveway
- Noise - Commercial
NYC 311 from 2020–present, last 14 days, mapped to 2020 NTAs. No addresses stored. Method.
On Reddit
Public posts from r/nyc that mention this neighborhood. Not Nextdoor, not people on this block, and not part of the fit score.
One r/nyc post in this snapshot names East Village.
- The Local Angle: The East Village may be expensive and crowded, but it's not dead yet
r/nyc · Aug 14 · 1 comment
The line above is a reading of the titles, not a verdict. Up to 3 links, last 90 days, snapshot 2026-09-01. Method.
Common questions
Straight answers from the numbers on this page.
Is East Village safe?
East Village shows more Part I than most of this New York set (safety 43 vs city 50). NYPD logged 1.9 violent and 12.6 property incidents per 1,000 residents — 14.5 combined. Visitors count in those numbers. This is not a judgment of who lives here.
What is rent in East Village?
ACS median rent is $2,399 — studios through large apartments mixed together. About 83% of households rent. Median home value is $1,076,273. Survey medians, not a listing you can message tonight.
Is East Village walkable?
Walk is 53 here vs 40 for the New York set — some errands work on foot; some still need a ride. Inside 800 meters: 88 groceries, 98 cafes, 105 transit stops, 120 parks. Not a Walk Score license.
Is East Village good for families?
There is more night and visitor traffic in the mix — not the quietest family default. Nearby school rating is 6.6 / 10. Median age is 33.5. That rating is not your assigned campus.
How long is the commute from East Village?
16 typical weekday minutes to Midtown. Not the app on your phone this hour. Other job centers are further down this page.
How many people live in East Village?
About 59,866 people. Median income $105K. 69% have a bachelor's or higher.
What neighborhoods are next to East Village?
Lower East Side, West Village, SoHo / Tribeca sit closest on this map. If you are choosing between two official neighborhoods, start with East Village vs Lower East Side.
Next door
Adjacent on the map, ranked with your weights.
East Village vs Lower East SideEast Village vs West VillageEast Village vs SoHo / Tribeca
52fit
SoHo / Tribeca
$3K median rent
Cast-iron and cobblestones, then quiet streets and art-storage money. Tourists on Broadway; actual residents one block over.
NightlifeWalk 58Safety 0
43fit
Chelsea
$3K median rent
Galleries, the High Line, and a waterfront that turned into towers. The gayborhood label stuck; the warehouses did not.
NightlifePlannedWaterfrontWalk 30Safety 19
43fit
Financial District
$4K median rent
The trading-floor neighborhood that learned to be residential after 2001. Waterfront, chain groceries, empty on weekends.
PlannedWaterfrontWalk 47Safety 5
41fit
Lower East Side
$2K median rent
Orchard Street, public housing, and new condos sharing the same blocks. Night-out density with daytime fruit stands.
NightlifeWalk 31Safety 10