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Philadelphia · PA · 20 neighborhoods
Compare official Philadelphia neighborhoods on ACS rent, walk, safety, schools, and commute. Rankings stay inside this city.
Data period. ACS 2024 5-year (2020-2024) · PPD Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 · OSM Sep 2026. ACS and PPD retrieved 2026-09-22; OSM retrieved 2026-09-22. 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
Gardens, brick, Headhouse. Quieter than Old City’s Mall, tighter than Queen Village. The Square is the lawn you share with Washington Square West.
$2K ACS median rent
The Square, the Gayborhood, Jeweler’s Row as searches inside one line. Walk maxes out. Part I is the highest violent read in this Philadelphia set — visitors and the night count.
$2K ACS median rent
The Square is the lawn. Walnut is the shop. Fitler Square is a search that sits next door, not a second official polygon here. You pay for the postcard and for the visitors who use it.
$2K ACS median rent
Cobblestones, the Mall, First Friday. You live next to a national park. Walk maxes out. Part I is padded by people who do not sleep here.
$2K ACS median rent
Penn, Drexel, the hospitals. Median income looks low because of students; home values do not. Powelton is a search on the north edge of this official line.
$2K ACS median rent
Fabric Row, the river, and a grid that still feels like a neighborhood. South Street is the tax. Society Hill is the garden north.
$2K ACS median rent
The Italian Market is the errand and the smell. Ninth Street still works as a grocery, not just a postcard. South of Washington Square, denser than Queen Village, cheaper than Rittenhouse.
$2K ACS median rent
Main Street, the canal, the hill. A small official polygon with a loud weekend. Regional Rail is the commute. The stairs are real.
$1K ACS median rent
Clark Park, Baltimore Avenue, porches. Next to University City without being the campus. Cedar Park is a search just west of this line.
$2K ACS median rent
The northwest village. Germantown Avenue is the errand. More house than brick, more Regional Rail than subway. Downtown is a trip, not a walk.
$2K ACS median rent
East Passyunk Avenue is the strip. Cheesesteaks are the tourist layer; the restaurants behind them are why people stay. South of Bella Vista, north of the stadiums.
$2K ACS median rent
The Art Museum steps, the park, and streets that still feel like a neighborhood. Girard and Fairmount Avenue are the errands. The Parkway is the tourist tax.
$2K ACS median rent
South of South Street, west of Broad. Newer than Bella Vista, tighter than Point Breeze. The hospital name is leftover. The product is brick and a walk to Center City.
$2K ACS median rent
West of Broad, south of Graduate Hospital. Newer infill next to older blocks. Newbold is a search inside this line, not a second official map.
$2K ACS median rent
Kelly Drive, the river path, and a hill that actually is a hill. Closer in than Chestnut Hill, quieter than Fairmount’s museum strip. The Schuylkill is the commute and the weekend.
$2K ACS median rent
Two Street, the river, the parade. More house-row than Passyunk’s restaurant strip. The stadiums are south; the water is east.
$2K ACS median rent
Frankford Avenue is the night. The El is the spine. The official line is Fishtown–Lower Kensington — Kensington as a search is not this whole map, and not a second polygon here.
$2K ACS median rent
Second Street, Piazza-era leftovers, and a walk to the El that is not quite Fishtown. Newer than Old City, louder than Fairmount. NoLibs is the search.
$1K ACS median rent
Porches, mixed blocks, Germantown Avenue as the seam. East Mount Airy is a different official line we do not fold in. More house than Manayunk, less village than Chestnut Hill.
$2K ACS median rent
Old brewery walls, new rentals, Girard as the spine. Fairmount is the park neighbor; this is the cheaper, still-in-progress version of the same river side.
Schematic neighborhood map — the Delaware on the right, the Schuylkill through the west. 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 Philadelphia city. Up 53% since 2014.
Overlapping 5-year ACS windows (B25064), not asking rent. Figures are for the city place, household-weighted across all occupied rental units.
Philadelphia ranks OpenDataPhilly neighborhoods — the named map the city’s open-data catalog uses — and this site shows a relocator subset of twenty, not all 150-plus polygons. The Delaware sits east; the Schuylkill cuts the west.
Fishtown, Rittenhouse, NoLibs, Manayunk, and UCity are search names inside those official-ish lines. The map is schematic. Adjacent here is not a SEPTA transfer.
Not a best-of list. Four cuts of the same 20 official neighborhoods.
Walks more
Groceries, transit, parks
School-heavy
Nearby rating + calmer map
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 Philadelphia only.
| # | Neighborhood | Published fit | ACS median rent | Walk index | Safety index |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Society Hill | 78 | $2,044 | 68 | 84 |
| 2 | Washington Square West | 76 | $1,700 | 100 | 0 |
| 3 | Rittenhouse | 74 | $2,093 | 86 | 5 |
| 4 | Old City | 68 | $2,191 | 78 | 11 |
| 5 | University City | 61 | $1,856 | 60 | 42 |
| 6 | Queen Village | 58 | $1,602 | 28 | 100 |
| 7 | Bella Vista | 57 | $1,724 | 38 | 63 |
| 8 | Manayunk | 54 | $1,717 | 36 | 53 |
| 9 | Spruce Hill | 53 | $1,443 | 41 | 37 |
| 10 | Chestnut Hill | 49 | $1,837 | 10 | 95 |
| 11 | Passyunk Square | 49 | $1,637 | 37 | 32 |
| 12 | Fairmount | 46 | $1,924 | 23 | 58 |
| 13 | Graduate Hospital | 44 | $2,187 | 27 | 21 |
| 14 | Point Breeze | 41 | $1,718 | 16 | 74 |
| 15 | East Falls | 40 | $1,694 | 0 | 89 |
| 16 | Pennsport | 40 | $2,207 | 13 | 79 |
| 17 | Fishtown | 39 | $1,847 | 26 | 26 |
| 18 | Northern Liberties | 39 | $2,030 | 29 | 16 |
| 19 | West Mount Airy | 38 | $1,382 | 2 | 68 |
| 20 | Brewerytown | 31 | $1,518 | 8 | 47 |
ACS median gross rent mixes every occupied rental. Walk is an in-house OSM count, not Walk Score. Safety ranks Part I rates inside Philadelphia only.
Rent figures are ACS 5-year median gross rent (2020-2024, ACS 2024 5-year) mixed across unit sizes in Philadelphia County. West Mount Airy is the lowest median in this set at $1,382. 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 PPD Part I rates (Oct 2025 – Sep 2026) inside this Philadelphia 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 OpenDataPhilly Philadelphia Neighborhoods (Robert Cheetham neighborhood map). Crime counts are Philadelphia Police Department Crime Incidents (OpenDataPhilly / Carto, Part I UCR).
ACS and PPD were retrieved 2026-09-22. OSM was retrieved 2026-09-22. 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 Philadelphia number is built — not a grade of the place.
Philadelphia ranks OpenDataPhilly neighborhoods — the named map the city’s open-data catalog uses — and this site shows a relocator subset of twenty, not all 150-plus polygons. The Delaware sits east; the Schuylkill cuts the west.
West Mount Airy has the lowest ACS 5-year median gross rent in this set at $1,382 (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. Society Hill currently leads the default walkable ranking. It is not a Walk Score® license.
Official neighborhoods only — 20 on this map. Fishtown, Rittenhouse, NoLibs, Manayunk, and UCity are aliases on the OpenDataPhilly neighborhood map. The schematic map is for clicking, not for measuring a shared border.
Housing is ACS 2024 5-year (2020-2024). Crime is PPD Part I for Oct 2025 – Sep 2026. OSM amenities were snapshotted 2026-09-22. 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 Philadelphia, then weighted. With default walkable weights and a $2,500 ACS rent budget, Society Hill is the current top match (78 published fit). Rankings never jump a city line. The formula is on the method page.
Full formula on the method page.