69fit
West Village
$3K ACS median rent
West 4th, brownstone streets that ignore the grid, and rents that assume you already live here. The postcard is the product.
- Walk index
- 68
- Safety index
- 24
- Published fit
- 69
Nightlife
54fit
SoHo / Tribeca
Official neighborhood: Tribeca-Civic Center / SoHo-Little Italy-Hudson Square
Published fit 54 uses default walkable weights and a $2,500 ACS rent budget — the same number as the New York table. Your current weights score this 52.
Data period. ACS 2024 5-year (2020-2024) · NYPD Oct 2025 – Jun 2026 · OSM Sep 2026. ACS and NYPD retrieved 2026-09-01; OSM retrieved 2026-09-01. Editorial copy last revised Sep 2026.
Cast-iron and cobblestones, then quiet streets and art-storage money. Tourists on Broadway; actual residents one block over.
sohotribecalittle italyhudson squarenolita
Best in New York for familiesWalkable New YorkUnder $2,500 rent
Why this published score
Default walkable weights, $2,500 ACS rent budget. Same axes as the city table and the FAQ.
Safety
0
180 violent · 1751 property · 55.8 per 1k (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026)-50 vs city set
Schools
40
Rating 7.0 / 10 nearby-7 vs city set
Walk
58
OSM: 65 groceries · 131 cafes · 225 transit · 120 parks+18 vs city set
Cost
83
$2,995 ACS median vs published $2,500 rent budget-10 vs city set
Vibe
66
OSM: 131 cafes · 435 restaurants · 53 bars · 120 parks+29 vs city set
Commute to work
From SoHo / Tribeca, a typical weekday is 20 min to Midtown, 11 min to FiDi, 24 min to Downtown Brooklyn. Not live traffic.
FiDi is the fastest of these three job centers from here.
Midtown
20 min
Times Square, Hudson Yards · -7 min vs the city-set median
FiDi
11 min
Wall Street, ferries · -18 min vs the city-set median · fastest of these three
Downtown Brooklyn
24 min
BAM, Dumbo, Borough Hall · +2 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 $2,995 — 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 ($174K) could “afford” about $4,355 a month at 30% of pay.
73% of households rent. Median home value is $1,963,075.
ACS median rent
$2,995
30% income budget
$4,355
Rent / income
21%
Median home
$1,963,075
Rent since 2014
ACS 5-year median gross rent for New York city. Up 48% since 2014. SoHo / Tribeca is 64% 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: 65 groceries, 131 cafes, 120 parks, and 225 transit stops.
Daily errands and coffee are realistic on foot. Parks are close — 120 mapped parks in that radius. Transit is dense (225 stops or stations).
131 cafes and 435 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 10 of the other 21 areas in this city.
Population
34,624
Median age
37.7
Median income
$174K
Renters
73%
Bachelor+
81%
Violent / 1k
5.2
Property / 1k
50.6
ACS 2024 5-year (2020-2024) · 9 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.
Cast-iron and cobblestones, then quiet streets and art-storage money. Tourists on Broadway; actual residents one block over. SoHo is the showroom; Tribeca is the quieter, even richer south. This polygon treats them as one relocator unit — tour as two.
Schools and playgrounds exist in Tribeca in a way SoHo’s ground floors do not. Weight cost (you will lose) and walk. Nightlife is restaurants, not clubs. The subway is the A/C/E/1/N/Q/R/W depending on the block, which is the luxury.
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.
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.
1,041 reports
- Illegal Parking182
- Vendor Enforcement132
- Homeless Person Assistance76
- Noise - Street/Sidewalk70
- Noise50
- Homeless Person Assistance
- Homeless Person Assistance
- Street Condition
- Homeless Person Assistance
- Noise
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.
In r/nyc lately: a few posts that name SoHo / Tribeca.
- pet peeve: what happened to soho??!! it used to be full of eclectic little artists stores!! who asked Bloomingdale's to plop down there?!! can we do anything about this?!!
r/nyc · Aug 12 · 22 comments
- To the cute tall white boy with pretty blue eyes at Levi’s in Soho who left their Fuji Film camera in the fitting room today:
r/nyc · Aug 16 · 5 comments
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 SoHo / Tribeca safe?
SoHo / Tribeca shows more Part I than most of this New York set (safety 0 vs city 50). NYPD logged 5.2 violent and 50.6 property incidents per 1,000 residents — 55.8 combined. Visitors count in those numbers. This is not a judgment of who lives here.
What is rent in SoHo / Tribeca?
ACS median rent is $2,995 — studios through large apartments mixed together. About 73% of households rent. Median home value is $1,963,075. Survey medians, not a listing you can message tonight.
Is SoHo / Tribeca walkable?
Walk is 58 here vs 40 for the New York set — some errands work on foot; some still need a ride. Inside 800 meters: 65 groceries, 131 cafes, 225 transit stops, 120 parks. Not a Walk Score license.
Is SoHo / Tribeca good for families?
There is more night and visitor traffic in the mix — not the quietest family default. Nearby school rating is 7.0 / 10. Median age is 37.7. That rating is not your assigned campus.
How long is the commute from SoHo / Tribeca?
20 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 SoHo / Tribeca?
About 34,624 people. Median income $174K. 81% have a bachelor's or higher.
What neighborhoods are next to SoHo / Tribeca?
Financial District, West Village, East Village sit closest on this map. If you are choosing between two official neighborhoods, start with SoHo / Tribeca vs Financial District.
Next door
Closest on this schematic map, scored with the same published walkable weights as the New York table. Distances here are not street geography.
SoHo / Tribeca vs Financial DistrictSoHo / Tribeca vs West VillageSoHo / Tribeca vs East Village
62fit
East Village
$2K ACS median rent
St. Marks to Tompkins, bars stacked on bars, and a residual punk that the brunch menus cannot quite kill.
- Walk index
- 53
- Safety index
- 43
- Published fit
- 62
Nightlife
45fit
Chelsea
$3K ACS median rent
Galleries, the High Line, and a waterfront that turned into towers. The gayborhood label stuck; the warehouses did not.
- Walk index
- 30
- Safety index
- 19
- Published fit
- 45
NightlifePlannedWaterfront
45fit
Financial District
$4K ACS median rent
The trading-floor neighborhood that learned to be residential after 2001. Waterfront, chain groceries, empty on weekends.
- Walk index
- 47
- Safety index
- 5
- Published fit
- 45
PlannedWaterfront
41fit
Lower East Side
$2K ACS median rent
Orchard Street, public housing, and new condos sharing the same blocks. Night-out density with daytime fruit stands.
- Walk index
- 31
- Safety index
- 10
- Published fit
- 41
Nightlife