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Seattle · WA · 20 Neighborhood Map Atlas districts
Compare official Seattle Neighborhood Map Atlas districts on ACS rent, walk, safety, schools, and commute. Rankings stay inside this city.
Data period. ACS 2024 5-year (2020-2024) · SPD Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 · OSM Sep 2026. ACS and SPD retrieved 2026-09-04; OSM retrieved 2026-09-04. 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.
$2K ACS median rent
Pike Place to Pioneer Square to Belltown to First Hill — one official district, four different nights. Visitor traffic inflates the Part I rate. Walk scores max.
$2K ACS median rent
Alki is the beach; the Junction is the errand. A peninsula that feels like a second city until the bridge backs up. You come for the water and stay because the grocery is still a walk.
$2K ACS median rent
Ravenna, Wedgwood, Laurelhurst — one official polygon east of the Ave. Tree streets, University Village at the edge, and a quieter read than the District next door.
$2K ACS median rent
The official district glues Fremont, Wallingford, Green Lake, and Phinney Ridge. Search those names. The troll, the lake loop, and the Sunday streets are all in here.
$2K ACS median rent
Columbia City is the search; Rainier Valley is the official district. Light rail down the middle, Mount Baker at the lake, and a food strip that is not a tourist reconstruction.
$2K ACS median rent
Search Broadway or Pike/Pine; the official district also swallows Madison Park and Montlake. Night on one edge, lake money on the other.
$2K ACS median rent
Old fishing town, new apartments. The locks and the Sunday market set the postcard; Ballard Avenue sets the night.
$2K ACS median rent
The mall became light rail and apartments. Maple Leaf’s bungalows sit next to a station that did not exist a decade ago. North-end practical, not a postcard.
$2K ACS median rent
Greenwood’s strip and Broadview’s bluff. Search Greenwood; the official district runs to the county line. More house than Fremont, more car than Ballard.
$2K ACS median rent
The CD on the map, Madrona and Leschi on the lake edge. Older Seattle — churches, new infill, and a name people still argue about.
$3K ACS median rent
A peninsula with one way in. Discovery Park is the amenity; the quiet is the product. You will drive more than you think, and hear less than almost anywhere else on this map.
$2K ACS median rent
The ridge above I-5 with a light-rail spine. Jefferson Park is the lawn; downtown is a short train, not a short walk.
$2K ACS median rent
Lake City Way is the strip; Matthews Beach is the water. North-end practical — more car than Ballard, cheaper than the lake-adjacent northeast.
$2K ACS median rent
The hill looks at downtown; Lower Queen Anne eats after the game. Counterbalance and a grocery you can walk to if you picked the right side of the ridge.
$2K ACS median rent
The Ave, the campus, and a median income that student households pull down. Light rail now. It is a neighborhood you age out of, or a neighborhood you never leave because of the bus.
$2K ACS median rent
The valley west of the Duwamish. More house than scene. High Point’s new streets sit next to older blocks that still feel like south end Seattle.
$3K ACS median rent
The peninsula in the lake. A loop trail, old houses, and almost no night. The smallest official district on this map, and the one that feels furthest from downtown without leaving the city.
$2K ACS median rent
The cut between Magnolia and Queen Anne. Tracks, yards, a driving range, and a few apartment stacks. You live here for the commute, not the block party.
$2K ACS median rent
Georgetown’s bars sit inside an industrial official district. SODO and the port set the noise. A relocator list that skipped this polygon would be lying about the map.
$3K ACS median rent
The official name is Cascade. Search South Lake Union or Eastlake. Amazon’s campus, Lake Union, and a skyline that did not exist fifteen years ago.
Schematic district map — Puget Sound on the left, Lake Washington on the right, the ship canal across the middle. Click a block to open it. Distances on this drawing are not street geography. Adjacent blocks are not a claim that two Neighborhood Map Atlas districts share a border.
ACS 5-year median gross rent for Seattle city. Up 79% since 2014.
Overlapping 5-year ACS windows (B25064), not asking rent. Figures are for the city place, household-weighted across all occupied rental units.
Seattle ranks Neighborhood Map Atlas districts — the city’s official named geography — with Puget Sound on the west and Lake Washington on the east. The ship canal is the east–west cut on the sketch.
Fremont, Wallingford, SLU, Columbia City, and Belltown are search aliases inside those districts. The map is for clicking districts, not for measuring a walk to the water.
Not a best-of list. Four cuts of the same 20 official Neighborhood Map Atlas districts.
Lower ACS rent
Survey median, not a listing
Lower Part I rate
Fewer reports per 1,000 in this city set
Published fit uses default walkable weights and a $2,500 ACS rent budget. Same order for every reader. Fit is a number inside Seattle only.
| # | Neighborhood | Published fit | ACS median rent | Walk index | Safety index |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Downtown | 77 | $2,193 | 100 | 5 |
| 2 | West Seattle | 66 | $2,022 | 48 | 100 |
| 3 | Northeast | 62 | $2,214 | 50 | 42 |
| 4 | North Central | 60 | $2,129 | 42 | 58 |
| 5 | Rainier Valley | 55 | $1,791 | 57 | 32 |
| 6 | Capitol Hill | 54 | $2,009 | 48 | 16 |
| 7 | Ballard | 52 | $2,263 | 35 | 47 |
| 8 | Northgate | 52 | $1,948 | 37 | 63 |
| 9 | Northwest | 52 | $1,925 | 28 | 79 |
| 10 | Central Area | 50 | $1,952 | 44 | 26 |
| 11 | Magnolia | 50 | $2,578 | 17 | 84 |
| 12 | Beacon Hill | 49 | $1,614 | 31 | 74 |
| 13 | Lake City | 49 | $1,923 | 21 | 89 |
| 14 | Queen Anne | 47 | $2,141 | 33 | 21 |
| 15 | University District | 47 | $1,781 | 31 | 37 |
| 16 | Delridge | 44 | $1,822 | 28 | 53 |
| 17 | Seward Park | 42 | $2,667 | 0 | 95 |
| 18 | Interbay | 40 | $2,193 | 10 | 68 |
| 19 | Greater Duwamish | 38 | $1,991 | 38 | 0 |
| 20 | Cascade | 36 | $2,502 | 18 | 11 |
ACS median gross rent mixes every occupied rental. Walk is an in-house OSM count, not Walk Score. Safety ranks Part I rates inside Seattle only.
Rent figures are ACS 5-year median gross rent (2020-2024, ACS 2024 5-year) mixed across unit sizes in the City of Seattle. Beacon Hill is the lowest median in this set at $1,614. 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 SPD Part I rates (Oct 2025 – Sep 2026) inside this Seattle set only. A lower index means fewer Part I reports per 1,000 ACS residents relative to the other Neighborhood Map Atlas districts 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 Seattle Neighborhood Map Atlas districts (nma_nhoods_main). Crime counts are Seattle Police Department Crime Data 2008–Present (tazs-3rd5).
ACS and SPD were retrieved 2026-09-04. OSM was retrieved 2026-09-04. 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 Seattle number is built — not a grade of the place.
Seattle ranks Neighborhood Map Atlas districts — the city’s official named geography — with Puget Sound on the west and Lake Washington on the east. The ship canal is the east–west cut on the sketch.
Beacon Hill has the lowest ACS 5-year median gross rent in this set at $1,614 (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 district or within 800 meters of its centroid. Downtown currently leads the default walkable ranking. It is not a Walk Score® license.
Official Neighborhood Map Atlas districts only — 20 on this map. Fremont, Wallingford, SLU, Columbia City, and Belltown are aliases on Neighborhood Map Atlas districts. The schematic map is for clicking, not for measuring a shared border.
Housing is ACS 2024 5-year (2020-2024). Crime is SPD Part I for Oct 2025 – Sep 2026. OSM amenities were snapshotted 2026-09-04. Editorial copy on these pages was last revised Sep 2026.
No. A number here is a rank inside these 20 official Neighborhood Map Atlas districts, not a grade you can carry to another city.
Six axes — safety, schools, walk, cost, vibe, and optional commute — scaled only inside Seattle, then weighted. With default walkable weights and a $2,500 ACS rent budget, Downtown is the current top match (77 published fit). Rankings never jump a city line. The formula is on the method page.
Full formula on the method page.