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King

Official neighborhood association: King

Published fit 48 uses default walkable weights and a $2,500 ACS rent budget — the same number as the Portland table. Your current weights score this 48.

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.

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.

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Best in Portland for familiesWalkable PortlandUnder $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
79

23 violent · 195 property · 31.2 per 1k (May 2025 – Apr 2026)+29 vs city set

Schools
50

Limited school data0 vs city set

Walk
21

OSM: 13 groceries · 9 cafes · 47 transit · 11 parks-4 vs city set

Cost
100

$2,019 ACS median vs published $2,500 rent budget0 vs city set

Vibe
17

OSM: 9 cafes · 51 restaurants · 12 bars · 11 parks-5 vs city set

Commute to work

From King, a typical weekday is 16 min to Downtown, 20 min to OHSU, 12 min to Lloyd. Not live traffic.

Lloyd is the fastest of these three job centers from here.

Downtown
16 min

Pioneer Courthouse Square · at the city-set median

OHSU
20 min

Marquam Hill, South Waterfront · +3 min vs the city-set median

Lloyd
12 min

Rose Quarter, convention offices · -1 min vs the city-set median · fastest of these three

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 $2,019 — 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 ($114K) could “afford” about $2,844 a month at 30% of pay.

44% of households rent. Median home value is $671,689.

ACS median rent
$2,019
30% income budget
$2,844
Rent / income
21%
Median home
$671,689

Rent since 2014

ACS 5-year median gross rent for Portland city. Up 75% since 2014. King is 22% above the 2024 city median.

$1.1k$2.3kKing $2,019201420162018202020222024

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 association: 13 groceries, 9 cafes, 11 parks, and 47 transit stops.

Daily errands and coffee are realistic on foot. Parks are close — 11 mapped parks in that radius. Transit is dense (47 stops or stations).

9 cafes and 51 restaurants make this one of the busier food pockets in the Portland set.

OpenStreetMap, 800 meters. Not a Walk Score license. More groceries than 18 of the other 19 areas in this city.

Population
6,981
Median age
33.4
Median income
$114K
Renters
44%
Bachelor+
56%
Violent / 1k
3.3
Property / 1k
27.9

ACS 2024 5-year (2020-2024) · 2 census tracts · PPB May 2025 – Apr 2026 · OSM 2026-09-23

Nightlife

Crime is PPB 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.

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.

Scores on this page stay inside Portland. King is the official association; other names are searches, not extra polygons. School ratings are thin in this snapshot. A neighbor on the schematic map is not a shared fence.

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, and local writing, 2025–2026. Editorial — not part of the fit score.

On Reddit

Public posts from r/Portland that mention this neighborhood. Not Nextdoor, not people on this block, and not part of the fit score.

No r/Portland posts in this snapshot mentioned King.

Last 90 days, snapshot 2026-09-01. Method.

Common questions

Straight answers from the numbers on this page.

Is King safe?

King sits on the quieter side of this Portland map (safety 79 vs city 50). PPB logged 3.3 violent and 27.9 property incidents per 1,000 residents — 31.2 combined. Visitors count in those numbers. This is not a judgment of who lives here.

What is rent in King?

ACS median rent is $2,019 — studios through large apartments mixed together. About 44% of households rent. Median home value is $671,689. Survey medians, not a listing you can message tonight.

Is King walkable?

Walk is 21 here vs 25 for the Portland set — you will likely drive or ride for a weekly shop. Inside 800 meters: 13 groceries, 9 cafes, 47 transit stops, 11 parks. Not a Walk Score license.

Is King good for families?

There is more night and visitor traffic in the mix — not the quietest family default. Nearby school rating is thin in this dataset. Median age is 33.4. That rating is not your assigned campus.

How long is the commute from King?

16 typical weekday minutes to Downtown. Not the app on your phone this hour. Other job centers are further down this page.

How many people live in King?

About 6,981 people. Median income $114K. 56% have a bachelor's or higher.

What neighborhoods are next to King?

Concordia, Boise, Eliot sit closest on this map. If you are choosing between two official neighborhood associations, start with King vs Concordia.

Next door

Closest on this schematic map, scored with the same published walkable weights as the Portland table. Distances here are not street geography.

King vs ConcordiaKing vs BoiseKing vs Eliot

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Boise

$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.

Walk index
17
Safety index
58
Published fit
45
Nightlife

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Kenton

$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.

Walk index
17
Safety index
63
Published fit
42

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Concordia

$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.

Walk index
10
Safety index
68
Published fit
41
Family streets

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Eliot

$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.

Walk index
13
Safety index
0
Published fit
31

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Irvington

$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.

Walk index
0
Safety index
37
Published fit
30
Family streets

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