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Official district: Delridge
Published fit 44 uses default walkable weights and a $2,500 ACS rent budget — the same number as the Seattle table. Your current weights score this 44.
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.
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.
Best in Seattle for familiesWalkable SeattleUnder $2,500 rent
Default walkable weights, $2,500 ACS rent budget. Same axes as the city table and the FAQ.
134 violent · 1399 property · 44.2 per 1k (Oct 2025 – Sep 2026)+3 vs city set
Rating 6.4 / 10 nearby-23 vs city set
OSM: 16 groceries · 8 cafes · 155 transit · 60 parks-8 vs city set
$1,822 ACS median vs published $2,500 rent budget0 vs city set
OSM: 8 cafes · 20 restaurants · 5 bars · 60 parks-17 vs city set
From Delridge, a typical weekday is 22 min to Downtown, 26 min to South Lake Union, 32 min to University. Not live traffic.
Downtown is the fastest of these three job centers from here.
Pike Place, Pioneer Square · +4 min vs the city-set median · fastest of these three
Amazon, Cascade · +7 min vs the city-set median
UW campus, the Ave · +11 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 $1,822 — every occupied rental mixed together, not the 1-bed in the window.
That is 18% of median household income — under the 30% HUD line. A household at this area’s median income ($122K) could “afford” about $3,040 a month at 30% of pay.
40% of households rent. Median home value is $698,313.
ACS 5-year median gross rent for Seattle city. Up 79% since 2014. Delridge is 10% 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 district: 16 groceries, 8 cafes, 60 parks, and 155 transit stops.
Daily errands and coffee are realistic on foot. Parks are close — 60 mapped parks in that radius. Transit is dense (155 stops or stations).
8 cafes and 20 restaurants make this one of the busier food pockets in the Seattle 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) · 7 census tracts · SPD Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 · OSM 2026-09-04
Crime is SPD 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.
A valley, not a postcard. High Point’s new streets, older blocks, and a drive to almost everything that is not a school or a park. West Seattle is the beach version of south-of-the-canal; this is the inland one.
Cost is the point relative to the rest of this city set. Weight family and budget. The Junction is a short drive and a different official district. Do not pretend this is Alki.
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.
City 311 service requests in this official unit, last 14 days. This is what neighbors filed with the city — not a chat thread, and not part of the fit score.
491 reports
City of Seattle 311 (Find It, Fix It), last 14 days, mapped to Neighborhood Map Atlas districts. No street addresses stored. Method.
Public posts from r/Seattle that mention this neighborhood. Not Nextdoor, not people on this block, and not part of the fit score.
In r/Seattle lately: lost-and-found and pets.
r/Seattle · Aug 31 · 174 upvotes · 13 comments
The line above is a reading of the titles, not a verdict. Up to 3 links, last 90 days, snapshot 2026-09-01. Method.
Straight answers from the numbers on this page.
Delridge is middle of the pack for Part I here (safety 53 vs city 50). SPD logged 3.9 violent and 40.3 property incidents per 1,000 residents — 44.2 combined. Visitors count in those numbers. This is not a judgment of who lives here.
ACS median rent is $1,822 — studios through large apartments mixed together. About 40% of households rent. Median home value is $698,313. Survey medians, not a listing you can message tonight.
Walk is 28 here vs 36 for the Seattle set — you will likely drive or ride for a weekly shop. Inside 800 meters: 16 groceries, 8 cafes, 155 transit stops, 60 parks. Not a Walk Score license.
The scores lean family relative to this city set. Nearby school rating is 6.4 / 10. Median age is 36.8. That rating is not your assigned campus.
22 typical weekday minutes to Downtown. Not the app on your phone this hour. Other job centers are further down this page.
About 34,712 people. Median income $122K. 49% have a bachelor's or higher.
Greater Duwamish, West Seattle, Downtown sit closest on this map. If you are choosing between two official districts, start with Delridge vs Greater Duwamish.
Closest on this schematic map, scored with the same published walkable weights as the Seattle table. Distances here are not street geography.
Delridge vs Greater DuwamishDelridge vs West SeattleDelridge vs Downtown
$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
The CD on the map, Madrona and Leschi on the lake edge. Older Seattle — churches, new infill, and a name people still argue about.
$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
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.