Seattle/Magnolia
Official district: Magnolia
Data vintage. ACS 2024 5-year · SPD Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 · OSM Sep 2026 · updated Sep 2026
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.
Best in Seattle for familiesWalkable SeattleUnder $2,500 rent
8 violent · 457 property · 27.3 per 1k (Oct 2025 – Sep 2026)+34 vs city set
Rating 8.6 / 10 nearby+48 vs city set
OSM: 8 groceries · 8 cafes · 116 transit · 36 parks-19 vs city set
$2,578 ACS median vs your rent budget-13 vs city set
OSM: 8 cafes · 16 restaurants · 3 bars · 36 parks-22 vs city set
From Magnolia, a typical weekday is 18 min to Downtown, 20 min to South Lake Union, 28 min to University. Not live traffic.
Downtown is the fastest of these three job centers from here.
Pike Place, Pioneer Square · at the city-set median · fastest of these three
Amazon, Cascade · +1 min vs the city-set median
UW campus, the Ave · +7 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 $2,578 — every occupied rental mixed together, not the 1-bed in the window.
That is 15% of median household income — under the 30% HUD line. A household at this area’s median income ($203K) could “afford” about $5,068 a month at 30% of pay.
29% of households rent. Median home value is $1,331,412.
ACS 5-year median gross rent for Seattle city. Up 79% since 2014. Magnolia is 27% 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 district: 8 groceries, 8 cafes, 36 parks, and 116 transit stops.
Daily errands and coffee are realistic on foot. Parks are close — 36 mapped parks in that radius. Transit is dense (116 stops or stations).
8 cafes and 16 restaurants make this one of the busier food pockets in the Seattle set.
OpenStreetMap, 800 meters. Not a Walk Score license. More groceries than 2 of the other 19 areas in this city.
ACS 2024 5-year (2020-2024) · 3 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.
One way in, Discovery Park, and the lowest Part I rate on this Seattle map. You will drive more than the brochure implies. You will hear less than almost anywhere else in the city. The water is the amenity; the isolation is the tax.
Houses, not stacks. A village commercial strip that is not Ballard Avenue. Weight safety and family. Queen Anne is the hill that still looks at downtown. Ballard is the one with a night.
Compiled from Zillow neighborhood guides, 5280 Magazine, Chicago and San Francisco resident guides, Mpls With Love, Eastside LA reporting, Seattle Times coverage, 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.
183 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.
One r/Seattle post in this snapshot names Magnolia.
r/Seattle · Aug 30 · 15 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.
Magnolia sits on the quieter side of this Seattle map (safety 84 vs city 50). SPD logged 0.5 violent and 26.8 property incidents per 1,000 residents — 27.3 combined. Visitors count in those numbers. This is not a judgment of who lives here.
ACS median rent is $2,578 — studios through large apartments mixed together. About 29% of households rent. Median home value is $1,331,412. Survey medians, not a listing you can message tonight.
Walk is 17 here vs 36 for the Seattle set — you will likely drive or ride for a weekly shop. Inside 800 meters: 8 groceries, 8 cafes, 116 transit stops, 36 parks. Not a Walk Score license.
The scores lean family relative to this city set. Nearby school rating is 8.6 / 10. Median age is 41.4. 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 17,077 people. Median income $203K. 80% have a bachelor's or higher.
Interbay, Ballard, Queen Anne sit closest on this map. If you are choosing between two official districts, start with Magnolia vs Interbay.
Adjacent on the map, ranked with your weights.
Magnolia vs InterbayMagnolia vs BallardMagnolia vs Queen Anne
$2K 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 median rent
Old fishing town, new apartments. The locks and the Sunday market set the postcard; Ballard Avenue sets the night.
$2K 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 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.
$3K 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.