Official neighborhood association: Pearl District
Published fit 47 uses default walkable weights and a $2,500 ACS rent budget — the same number as the Portland table. Your current weights score this 47.
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.
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.
Best in Portland for familiesWalkable PortlandUnder $2,500 rent
Default walkable weights, $2,500 ACS rent budget. Same axes as the city table and the FAQ.
73 violent · 1285 property · 124.8 per 1k (May 2025 – Apr 2026)-29 vs city set
Limited school data0 vs city set
OSM: 6 groceries · 31 cafes · 66 transit · 9 parks+8 vs city set
$1,908 ACS median vs published $2,500 rent budget0 vs city set
OSM: 31 cafes · 60 restaurants · 34 bars · 9 parks+14 vs city set
From Pearl, a typical weekday is 8 min to Downtown, 14 min to OHSU, 12 min to Lloyd. Not live traffic.
Downtown is the fastest of these three job centers from here.
Pioneer Courthouse Square · -8 min vs the city-set median · fastest of these three
Marquam Hill, South Waterfront · -3 min vs the city-set median
Rose Quarter, convention offices · -1 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 $1,908 — 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 ($106K) could “afford” about $2,651 a month at 30% of pay.
73% of households rent. Median home value is $616,146.
ACS 5-year median gross rent for Portland city. Up 75% since 2014. Pearl is 15% 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 association: 6 groceries, 31 cafes, 9 parks, and 66 transit stops.
Daily errands and coffee are realistic on foot. Parks are close — 9 mapped parks in that radius. Transit is dense (66 stops or stations).
31 cafes and 60 restaurants make this one of the busier food pockets in the Portland set.
OpenStreetMap, 800 meters. Not a Walk Score license. More groceries than 6 of the other 19 areas in this city.
ACS 2024 5-year (2020-2024) · 3 census tracts · PPB May 2025 – Apr 2026 · OSM 2026-09-23
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.
What it is like to live here, beyond the scores.
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.
Scores on this page stay inside Portland. Pearl District 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.
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 Pearl.
Last 90 days, snapshot 2026-09-01. Method.
Straight answers from the numbers on this page.
Pearl shows more Part I than most of this Portland set (safety 21 vs city 50). PPB logged 6.7 violent and 118.1 property incidents per 1,000 residents — 124.8 combined. Visitors count in those numbers. This is not a judgment of who lives here.
ACS median rent is $1,908 — studios through large apartments mixed together. About 73% of households rent. Median home value is $616,146. Survey medians, not a listing you can message tonight.
Walk is 33 here vs 25 for the Portland set — you will likely drive or ride for a weekly shop. Inside 800 meters: 6 groceries, 31 cafes, 66 transit stops, 9 parks. Not a Walk Score license.
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 38.4. That rating is not your assigned campus.
8 typical weekday minutes to Downtown. Not the app on your phone this hour. Other job centers are further down this page.
About 10,885 people. Median income $106K. 76% have a bachelor's or higher.
Northwest, Downtown, St. Johns sit closest on this map. If you are choosing between two official neighborhood associations, start with Pearl vs Northwest.
Closest on this schematic map, scored with the same published walkable weights as the Portland table. Distances here are not street geography.
Pearl vs NorthwestPearl vs DowntownPearl vs St. Johns
$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
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
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.