Portland · OR · 20 neighborhood associations
Compare official Portland neighborhood associations on ACS rent, walk, safety, schools, and commute. Rankings stay inside this city.
Data period. ACS 2024 5-year (2020-2024) · PPB May 2025 – Apr 2026 · OSM Sep 2026. ACS and PPB retrieved 2026-09-23; OSM retrieved 2026-09-23. 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.
$1K ACS median rent
The official name is Portland Downtown. Pioneer Courthouse Square and the bus mall are the center; the Part I count includes visitors and the night. Walk is the point. A yard is not. Old Town is a different association and not this row.
$2K ACS median rent
The bridge, the plaza, and a peninsula that feels like its own town. St. Johns is the official association. Cathedral Park is a different association and not this row. Downtown is a trip, not a walk.
$2K ACS median rent
Nob Hill, NW 23rd, and the Alphabet District are searches inside the Northwest District. The grid is older than the Pearl, and the shops are why the property count is not quiet. Goose Hollow is the stadium side.
$2K ACS median rent
Multnomah Village is the search inside the Multnomah association. A main street, houses up the hill, and the lowest property rate in this set. Hillsdale is the next hill. Downtown is a drive.
$2K ACS median rent
Southwest hills and a town center, with a shorter OHSU trip than most of this set outside Goose Hollow. Houses, not a strip. Do not confuse it with the Northwest District.
$2K ACS median rent
Alberta Arts is the search. The official association is King. The street is cafes; the numbered streets are houses. Concordia shares the Alberta alias farther east. Boise is Mississippi, not this row.
$2K ACS median rent
Search Pearl or Pearl District. Warehouses turned condo stacks, with a grocery that arrived with the towers. The property rate is written by the shops as much as the residents. Northwest is the older grid next door.
$2K ACS median rent
Between Providence Park and the West Hills. A MAX line, smaller apartments, and the short OHSU commute in this set. It is not Nob Hill, and it is not the Pearl.
$2K ACS median rent
Hawthorne’s south side and the eastern run of Division both land in Richmond. Cafes, houses, and the lowest violent rate in this set. Sunnyside is the north side of Hawthorne, its own association.
$2K ACS median rent
Mississippi Avenue is the search. The official association is Boise. The street is the night; the blocks off it are houses. Alberta is King, one association east — not this polygon.
$2K ACS median rent
The bluff over Interstate Avenue. The upper streets are houses; the avenue is the strip. Kenton is north. Boise is east — Mississippi, not this row.
$2K ACS median rent
Division and Clinton are the searches. The official name is Hosford-Abernethy. The polygon also takes the industrial edge toward the river, so the property rate — second-highest here — is not a story about every Clinton bungalow.
$2K ACS median rent
Sellwood and Westmoreland, one association: the bridge, the antique row, more house than Hawthorne. Search Moreland or Westmoreland and you land here. It is not a west-side neighborhood.
$2K ACS median rent
The Paul Bunyan statue and Denver Avenue. North Portland, east of the river, with a MAX line and more house than bar. St. Johns is across the bridge — a different official polygon.
$2K ACS median rent
House blocks east of Alberta’s busiest stretch, with the street still in the search. More porch than night, and a calmer Part I read than King. Irvington is the larger houses to the south.
$1K ACS median rent
The park and the houses. ACS median rent looks low because most households own, so it is not the cheap neighborhood the rent number suggests. The home value is the tell. Sunnyside is Hawthorne, west of here.
$2K ACS median rent
Hawthorne’s north side. Belmont sits in the same small association. Search Hawthorne and Richmond also answers; this is the row people mean when they mean the street. A yard is rare.
$1K ACS median rent
The theater and Sandy Boulevard. More errand than scene. The ACS rent is one of the lower reads here — a survey median, not this week’s listing. Irvington is west. Laurelhurst is south.
$2K ACS median rent
A small association between the river and MLK, south of Boise. Broadway is the edge. The property rate is the highest in this Portland set because that edge is busy — it is not a score for every side street.
$3K ACS median rent
The boulevard and the big houses. Highest ACS home value in this set, and the only median rent here over $2,500. School ratings are not in this Portland snapshot — the houses are the tell, not a campus assignment.
Schematic association map — the Willamette through the middle, the west hills on the left. Click a block to open it. Distances on this drawing are not street geography. Adjacent blocks are not a claim that two neighborhood associations share a border.
ACS 5-year median gross rent for Portland city. Up 75% since 2014.
Overlapping 5-year ACS windows (B25064), not asking rent. Figures are for the city place, household-weighted across all occupied rental units.
Portland ranks neighborhood associations — the city’s official named geography, kept by the Office of Community and Civic Life — and this site shows a relocator subset of 20, not all 90-plus. The Willamette sits in the middle of the sketch; the west hills are on the left.
Pearl, Alberta, Division, Hawthorne, Mississippi, and St. Johns are search names inside those associations. Hawthorne lands on Sunnyside and Richmond. School ratings are not in this Portland snapshot, so that axis does not separate the list. The map is schematic.
Not a best-of list. Four cuts of the same 20 official neighborhood associations.
Lower ACS rent
Survey median, not a listing
Published fit uses default walkable weights and a $2,500 ACS rent budget. Same order for every reader. Fit is a number inside Portland only.
| # | Neighborhood | Published fit | ACS median rent | Walk index | Safety index |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Downtown | 82 | $1,403 | 100 | 16 |
| 2 | St. Johns | 56 | $1,698 | 37 | 89 |
| 3 | Northwest | 51 | $1,609 | 44 | 11 |
| 4 | Multnomah | 51 | $1,615 | 22 | 100 |
| 5 | Hillsdale | 49 | $1,664 | 24 | 84 |
| 6 | King | 48 | $2,019 | 21 | 79 |
| 7 | Pearl | 47 | $1,908 | 33 | 21 |
| 8 | Goose Hollow | 47 | $1,541 | 34 | 32 |
| 9 | Richmond | 46 | $1,751 | 23 | 53 |
| 10 | Boise | 45 | $1,708 | 17 | 58 |
| 11 | Overlook | 45 | $1,823 | 18 | 74 |
| 12 | Hosford-Abernethy | 43 | $1,812 | 31 | 5 |
| 13 | Sellwood | 43 | $1,561 | 18 | 47 |
| 14 | Kenton | 42 | $1,623 | 17 | 63 |
| 15 | Concordia | 41 | $2,079 | 10 | 68 |
| 16 | Laurelhurst | 41 | $1,385 | 4 | 95 |
| 17 | Sunnyside | 40 | $1,788 | 18 | 26 |
| 18 | Hollywood | 36 | $1,444 | 10 | 42 |
| 19 | Eliot | 31 | $1,612 | 13 | 0 |
| 20 | Irvington | 30 | $2,621 | 0 | 37 |
ACS median gross rent mixes every occupied rental. Walk is an in-house OSM count, not Walk Score. Safety ranks Part I rates inside Portland only.
Rent figures are ACS 5-year median gross rent (2020-2024, ACS 2024 5-year) mixed across unit sizes in the City of Portland. Laurelhurst is the lowest median in this set at $1,385. 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 PPB Part I rates (May 2025 – Apr 2026) inside this Portland set only. A lower index means fewer Part I reports per 1,000 ACS residents relative to the other neighborhood associations 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 City of Portland neighborhood association boundaries (PortlandMaps COP_OpenData_Boundary / Neighborhood Boundaries). Crime counts are Portland Police Bureau New Offense Data 2025 and 2026 (files updated May 20, 2026).
ACS and PPB were retrieved 2026-09-23. OSM was retrieved 2026-09-23. 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 Portland number is built — not a grade of the place.
Portland ranks neighborhood associations — the city’s official named geography, kept by the Office of Community and Civic Life — and this site shows a relocator subset of 20, not all 90-plus. The Willamette sits in the middle of the sketch; the west hills are on the left.
Laurelhurst has the lowest ACS 5-year median gross rent in this set at $1,385 (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 association or within 800 meters of its centroid. Downtown currently leads the default walkable ranking. It is not a Walk Score® license.
Official neighborhood associations only — 20 on this map. Pearl, Alberta, Division, Hawthorne, Mississippi, and St. Johns are aliases on official neighborhood associations, not extra polygons. The schematic map is for clicking, not for measuring a shared border.
Housing is ACS 2024 5-year (2020-2024). Crime is PPB Part I for May 2025 – Apr 2026. OSM amenities were snapshotted 2026-09-23. Editorial copy on these pages was last revised Sep 2026.
No. A number here is a rank inside these 20 official neighborhood associations, not a grade you can carry to another city.
Six axes — safety, schools, walk, cost, vibe, and optional commute — scaled only inside Portland, then weighted. With default walkable weights and a $2,500 ACS rent budget, Downtown is the current top match (82 published fit). Rankings never jump a city line. The formula is on the method page.
Full formula on the method page.