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Official neighborhood: Graduate Hospital
Published fit 44 uses default walkable weights and a $2,500 ACS rent budget — the same number as the Philadelphia table. Your current weights score this 44.
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.
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.
Best in Philadelphia for familiesWalkable PhiladelphiaUnder $2,500 rent
Default walkable weights, $2,500 ACS rent budget. Same axes as the city table and the FAQ.
29 violent · 984 property · 69.9 per 1k (Oct 2025 – Sep 2026)-29 vs city set
Rating 7.0 / 10 nearby+3 vs city set
OSM: 11 groceries · 11 cafes · 2 transit · 48 parks-9 vs city set
$2,187 ACS median vs published $2,500 rent budget0 vs city set
OSM: 11 cafes · 23 restaurants · 7 bars · 48 parks-3 vs city set
From Graduate Hospital, a typical weekday is 12 min to Center City, 12 min to University City, 18 min to Navy Yard. Not live traffic.
Center City is the fastest of these three job centers from here.
City Hall, Market East · -2 min vs the city-set median · fastest of these three
Penn, Drexel, hospitals · -7 min vs the city-set median
South jobs, the waterfront · -4 min vs the city-set median
Minutes are baked from neighborhood geography to three job centers — not Google, not this hour’s traffic.
The ACS median rent is $2,187 — 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 ($124K) could “afford” about $3,101 a month at 30% of pay.
49% of households rent. Median home value is $598,225.
ACS 5-year median gross rent for Philadelphia city. Up 53% since 2014. Graduate Hospital is 57% 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 short walk of this official neighborhood: 11 groceries, 11 cafes, 48 parks, and 2 transit stops.
Daily errands and coffee are realistic on foot. Parks are close — 48 mapped parks in that radius. Transit inside 800 meters is thin.
11 cafes and 23 restaurants make this one of the busier food pockets in the Philadelphia set.
OpenStreetMap, 800 meters. Not a Walk Score license. More groceries than 11 of the other 19 areas in this city.
ACS 2024 5-year (2020-2024) · 4 census tracts · PPD Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 · OSM 2026-09-22
Crime is PPD 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.
What it is like to live here, beyond the scores.
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. People still search G-Ho.
Weight walk. Rittenhouse is the square north. Point Breeze is the next rectangle south and cheaper. Bella Vista is the market east of Broad. University City is the other side of the river if the job is Penn.
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.
Public posts from r/philadelphia that mention this neighborhood. Not Nextdoor, not people on this block, and not part of the fit score.
No r/philadelphia posts in this snapshot mentioned Graduate Hospital.
Last 90 days, snapshot 2026-09-01. Method.
Straight answers from the numbers on this page.
Graduate Hospital shows more Part I than most of this Philadelphia set (safety 21 vs city 50). PPD logged 2.0 violent and 67.9 property incidents per 1,000 residents — 69.9 combined. Visitors count in those numbers. This is not a judgment of who lives here.
ACS median rent is $2,187 — studios through large apartments mixed together. About 49% of households rent. Median home value is $598,225. Survey medians, not a listing you can message tonight.
Walk is 27 here vs 36 for the Philadelphia set — you will likely drive or ride for a weekly shop. Inside 800 meters: 11 groceries, 11 cafes, 2 transit stops, 48 parks. Not a Walk Score license.
Family fit depends on the school rating nearby and how much quiet you want. Nearby school rating is 7.0 / 10. Median age is 32.2. That rating is not your assigned campus.
12 typical weekday minutes to Center City. Not the app on your phone this hour. Other job centers are further down this page.
About 14,483 people. Median income $124K. 82% have a bachelor's or higher.
Point Breeze, Rittenhouse, Passyunk Square sit closest on this map. If you are choosing between two official neighborhoods, start with Graduate Hospital vs Point Breeze.
Closest on this schematic map, scored with the same published walkable weights as the Philadelphia table. Distances here are not street geography.
Graduate Hospital vs Point BreezeGraduate Hospital vs RittenhouseGraduate Hospital vs Passyunk Square
$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
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
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
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.