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Official neighborhood: Society Hill
Published fit 78 uses default walkable weights and a $2,500 ACS rent budget — the same number as the Philadelphia table. Your current weights score this 78.
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.
Gardens, brick, Headhouse. Quieter than Old City’s Mall, tighter than Queen Village. The Square is the lawn you share with Washington Square West.
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.
13 violent · 222 property · 36.2 per 1k (Oct 2025 – Sep 2026)+34 vs city set
Rating 7.4 / 10 nearby+21 vs city set
OSM: 13 groceries · 33 cafes · 49 transit · 48 parks+32 vs city set
$2,044 ACS median vs published $2,500 rent budget0 vs city set
OSM: 33 cafes · 90 restaurants · 22 bars · 48 parks+42 vs city set
From Society Hill, a typical weekday is 10 min to Center City, 20 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 · -4 min vs the city-set median · fastest of these three
Penn, Drexel, hospitals · +1 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 $2,044 — every occupied rental mixed together, not the 1-bed in the window.
That is 22% of median household income — under the 30% HUD line. A household at this area’s median income ($113K) could “afford” about $2,830 a month at 30% of pay.
40% of households rent. Median home value is $510,250.
ACS 5-year median gross rent for Philadelphia city. Up 53% since 2014. Society Hill is 46% 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: 13 groceries, 33 cafes, 48 parks, and 49 transit stops.
Daily errands and coffee are realistic on foot. Parks are close — 48 mapped parks in that radius. Transit is dense (49 stops or stations).
33 cafes and 90 restaurants make this one of the busier food pockets in the Philadelphia set.
OpenStreetMap, 800 meters. Not a Walk Score license. More groceries than 13 of the other 19 areas in this city.
ACS 2024 5-year (2020-2024) · 2 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.
Gardens, brick, Headhouse. Quieter than Old City’s Mall, tighter than Queen Village. The Square is the lawn you share with Washington Square West. Walk is high; the night is next door, not on every block.
Weight walk and family. Old City is the cobblestone tourist neighbor. Queen Village is south toward the river. Washington Square West is the denser Center City rectangle west of the Square.
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 Society Hill.
Last 90 days, snapshot 2026-09-01. Method.
Straight answers from the numbers on this page.
Society Hill sits on the quieter side of this Philadelphia map (safety 84 vs city 50). PPD logged 2.0 violent and 34.2 property incidents per 1,000 residents — 36.2 combined. Visitors count in those numbers. This is not a judgment of who lives here.
ACS median rent is $2,044 — studios through large apartments mixed together. About 40% of households rent. Median home value is $510,250. Survey medians, not a listing you can message tonight.
Walk is 68 here vs 36 for the Philadelphia set — some errands work on foot; some still need a ride. Inside 800 meters: 13 groceries, 33 cafes, 49 transit stops, 48 parks. Not a Walk Score license.
The scores lean family relative to this city set. Nearby school rating is 7.4 / 10. Median age is 56.3. That rating is not your assigned campus.
10 typical weekday minutes to Center City. Not the app on your phone this hour. Other job centers are further down this page.
About 6,485 people. Median income $113K. 82% have a bachelor's or higher.
Queen Village, Bella Vista, Old City sit closest on this map. If you are choosing between two official neighborhoods, start with Society Hill vs Queen Village.
Closest on this schematic map, scored with the same published walkable weights as the Philadelphia table. Distances here are not street geography.
Society Hill vs Queen VillageSociety Hill vs Bella VistaSociety Hill vs Old City
$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
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
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
Two Street, the river, the parade. More house-row than Passyunk’s restaurant strip. The stadiums are south; the water is east.