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Official community planning area: Ocean Beach
Published fit 33 uses default walkable weights and a $2,500 ACS rent budget — the same number as the San Diego table. Your current weights score this 33.
Data period. ACS 2024 5-year (2020-2024) · SDPD Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 · OSM Oct 2026. ACS and SDPD retrieved 2026-10-14; OSM retrieved 2026-10-14. Editorial copy last revised Sep 2026.
Newport Avenue and the pier. The official plan is Ocean Beach. 80% of households rent. Rent is $2,266. Violent Part I is 7.1 per 1,000, higher than the beach plan to the north, and property is 16.4. A small grid with a loud end.
Best in San Diego for familiesWalkable San DiegoUnder $2,500 rent
Default walkable weights, $2,500 ACS rent budget. Same axes as the city table and the FAQ.
110 violent · 254 property · 23.5 per 1k (Oct 2025 – Sep 2026)-13 vs city set
Limited school data0 vs city set
OSM: 5 groceries · 17 cafes · 22 transit · 14 parks-19 vs city set
$2,266 ACS median vs published $2,500 rent budget+4 vs city set
OSM: 17 cafes · 42 restaurants · 20 bars · 14 parks-15 vs city set
From Ocean Beach, a typical weekday is 18 min to Downtown, 22 min to UTC, 18 min to Mission Valley. Not live traffic.
Downtown is the fastest of these three job centers from here.
Civic Center, Gaslamp · +1 min vs the city-set median · fastest of these three
University City, the campus · +3 min vs the city-set median
Malls, the stadium · +3 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 $2,266 — every occupied rental mixed together, not the 1-bed in the window.
That is 27% of median household income — under the 30% HUD line. A household at this area’s median income ($100K) could “afford” about $2,496 a month at 30% of pay.
80% of households rent. Median home value is $949,333.
ACS 5-year median gross rent for San Diego city. Up 70% since 2014. Ocean Beach is 2% 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 community planning area: 5 groceries, 17 cafes, 14 parks, and 22 transit stops.
Daily errands and coffee are realistic on foot. Parks are close — 14 mapped parks in that radius. Transit is dense (22 stops or stations).
17 cafes and 42 restaurants make this one of the busier food pockets in the San Diego set.
OpenStreetMap, 800 meters. Not a Walk Score license. More groceries than 4 of the other 19 areas in this city.
ACS 2024 5-year (2020-2024) · 5 census tracts · SDPD Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 · OSM 2026-10-14
Crime is SDPD 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.
Newport Avenue and the pier. The official plan is Ocean Beach. 80% of households rent. Rent is $2,266. Violent Part I is 7.1 per 1,000, higher than the beach plan to the north, and property is 16.4. A small grid with a loud end.
Scores on this page stay inside San Diego. Ocean Beach is the official community planning area; other names are searches, not extra polygons. School ratings are not in this snapshot. A neighbor on the schematic map is not a shared fence. SDPD counts are the department's FBI violent and property flags — Part I homicide, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault, plus burglary, larceny, and motor vehicle theft. Arson is not in those flags. Police beats are not this map.
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, San Diego community-plan writing, and local writing, 2025–2026. Editorial — not part of the fit score.
Public posts from r/sandiego that mention this neighborhood. Not Nextdoor, not people on this block, and not part of the fit score.
No r/sandiego posts in this snapshot mentioned Ocean Beach.
Last 90 days, snapshot 2026-09-01. Method.
Straight answers from the numbers on this page.
Ocean Beach shows more Part I than most of this San Diego set (safety 37 vs city 50). SDPD logged 7.1 violent and 16.4 property incidents per 1,000 residents — 23.5 combined. Visitors count in those numbers. This is not a judgment of who lives here.
ACS median rent is $2,266 — studios through large apartments mixed together. About 80% of households rent. Median home value is $949,333. Survey medians, not a listing you can message tonight.
Walk is 5 here vs 24 for the San Diego set — you will likely drive or ride for a weekly shop. Inside 800 meters: 5 groceries, 17 cafes, 22 transit stops, 14 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 35.3. That rating is not your assigned campus.
18 typical weekday minutes to Downtown. Not the app on your phone this hour. Other job centers are further down this page.
About 15,467 people. Median income $100K. 59% have a bachelor's or higher.
Mission Beach, Point Loma, Uptown sit closest on this map. If you are choosing between two official community planning areas, start with Ocean Beach vs Mission Beach.
Closest on this schematic map, scored with the same published walkable weights as the San Diego table. Distances here are not street geography.
Ocean Beach vs Mission BeachOcean Beach vs Point LomaOcean Beach vs Uptown
$3K ACS median rent
Point Loma and Liberty Station are searches. The official plan is Peninsula. Sunset Cliffs is the same polygon, not a second one. Home median is $1,451,440. Violent Part I is 2.2 per 1,000 and property is 9.2, a calmer read than the beach grids. The high park count is the point and the shoreline mapped as parks. 46% rent.
$2K ACS median rent
Hillcrest, Mission Hills, and Bankers Hill are searches inside one plan. The official name is Uptown. Hillcrest is the night; the west side is houses. Median age is 42.2 and the home median is $1,135,056. Violent Part I is 5.7 per 1,000. Property is 19.9.
$2K ACS median rent
Garnet Avenue is the search. The official plan is Pacific Beach. Rent is $2,427 and the home median is $1,372,211. Violent Part I is 4.5 per 1,000. Property is 18.2. Garnet is the night. The bay side of the same plan is quieter.
$2K ACS median rent
USD is a search on the west side of this plan. The official name is Linda Vista. Home median is $717,082. Property Part I is 25.7 per 1,000, high for a plan that is mostly houses — the commercial edge is inside the same line. Violent is 4.5.
$3K ACS median rent
One census tract and 1,774 residents. Belmont Park and the boardwalk sit on that small base, so violent Part I is 33.8 per 1,000 and property is 86.2 — the highest rates in this set, and not a score for every cottage. The ACS home figure is $2,000,001, the survey's top code, so it means at least $2 million rather than an exact price. Rent is $2,767.