Official neighborhood association: Sellwood-Moreland
Published fit 43 uses default walkable weights and a $2,500 ACS rent budget — the same number as the Portland table. Your current weights score this 43.
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.
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.
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.
27 violent · 648 property · 63.9 per 1k (May 2025 – Apr 2026)-3 vs city set
Limited school data0 vs city set
OSM: 8 groceries · 12 cafes · 38 transit · 22 parks-7 vs city set
$1,561 ACS median vs published $2,500 rent budget0 vs city set
OSM: 12 cafes · 40 restaurants · 14 bars · 22 parks+1 vs city set
From Sellwood, a typical weekday is 20 min to Downtown, 16 min to OHSU, 22 min to Lloyd. Not live traffic.
OHSU is the fastest of these three job centers from here.
Pioneer Courthouse Square · +4 min vs the city-set median
Marquam Hill, South Waterfront · -1 min vs the city-set median · fastest of these three
Rose Quarter, convention offices · +9 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 $1,561 — 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 ($86K) could “afford” about $2,138 a month at 30% of pay.
55% of households rent. Median home value is $658,627.
ACS 5-year median gross rent for Portland city. Up 75% since 2014. Sellwood is 6% below 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: 8 groceries, 12 cafes, 22 parks, and 38 transit stops.
Daily errands and coffee are realistic on foot. Parks are close — 22 mapped parks in that radius. Transit is dense (38 stops or stations).
12 cafes and 40 restaurants make this one of the busier food pockets in the Portland 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) · 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.
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.
Scores on this page stay inside Portland. Sellwood-Moreland 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 Sellwood.
Last 90 days, snapshot 2026-09-01. Method.
Straight answers from the numbers on this page.
Sellwood is middle of the pack for Part I here (safety 47 vs city 50). PPB logged 2.6 violent and 61.3 property incidents per 1,000 residents — 63.9 combined. Visitors count in those numbers. This is not a judgment of who lives here.
ACS median rent is $1,561 — studios through large apartments mixed together. About 55% of households rent. Median home value is $658,627. Survey medians, not a listing you can message tonight.
Walk is 18 here vs 25 for the Portland set — you will likely drive or ride for a weekly shop. Inside 800 meters: 8 groceries, 12 cafes, 38 transit stops, 22 parks. Not a Walk Score license.
The scores lean family relative to this city set. Nearby school rating is thin in this dataset. Median age is 37.8. That rating is not your assigned campus.
20 typical weekday minutes to Downtown. Not the app on your phone this hour. Other job centers are further down this page.
About 10,569 people. Median income $86K. 66% have a bachelor's or higher.
Richmond, Laurelhurst, Hosford-Abernethy sit closest on this map. If you are choosing between two official neighborhood associations, start with Sellwood vs Richmond.
Closest on this schematic map, scored with the same published walkable weights as the Portland table. Distances here are not street geography.
Sellwood vs RichmondSellwood vs LaurelhurstSellwood vs Hosford-Abernethy
$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
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.
$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.