Seattle/Northeast
Official district: Northeast
Data vintage. ACS 2024 5-year · SPD Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 · OSM Sep 2026 · updated Sep 2026
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.
Best in Seattle for familiesWalkable SeattleUnder $2,500 rent
54 violent · 1696 property · 46.4 per 1k (Oct 2025 – Sep 2026)-8 vs city set
Rating 8.4 / 10 nearby+42 vs city set
OSM: 17 groceries · 30 cafes · 187 transit · 172 parks+14 vs city set
$2,214 ACS median vs your rent budget+1 vs city set
OSM: 30 cafes · 98 restaurants · 16 bars · 172 parks+17 vs city set
From Northeast, a typical weekday is 24 min to Downtown, 20 min to South Lake Union, 12 min to University. Not live traffic.
University is the fastest of these three job centers from here.
Pike Place, Pioneer Square · +6 min vs the city-set median
Amazon, Cascade · +1 min vs the city-set median
UW campus, the Ave · -9 min vs the city-set median · fastest of these three
Minutes are baked from neighborhood geography to three job centers — not Google, not this hour’s traffic.
The ACS median rent is $2,214 — 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 ($173K) could “afford” about $4,326 a month at 30% of pay.
33% of households rent. Median home value is $1,141,764.
ACS 5-year median gross rent for Seattle city. Up 79% since 2014. Northeast is 9% 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: 17 groceries, 30 cafes, 172 parks, and 187 transit stops.
Daily errands and coffee are realistic on foot. Parks are close — 172 mapped parks in that radius. Transit is dense (187 stops or stations).
30 cafes and 98 restaurants make this one of the busier food pockets in the Seattle set.
OpenStreetMap, 800 meters. Not a Walk Score license. More groceries than 8 of the other 19 areas in this city.
ACS 2024 5-year (2020-2024) · 10 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.
Ravenna, Wedgwood, Laurelhurst, View Ridge. Tree streets, University Village at the edge, and a quieter official read than the Ave. You are near the campus without living in the District.
Houses and a car, plus a bus if you picked Roosevelt. Weight family and schools. Lake City is cheaper north. The U District is the student official neighbor. Do not carry a Northeast score to Ballard; they are different nights.
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.
559 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: traffic.
r/Seattle · Sep 2 · 15 upvotes · 18 comments
r/Seattle · Aug 31 · 15 upvotes · 4 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.
Northeast shows more Part I than most of this Seattle set (safety 42 vs city 50). SPD logged 1.4 violent and 45.0 property incidents per 1,000 residents — 46.4 combined. Visitors count in those numbers. This is not a judgment of who lives here.
ACS median rent is $2,214 — studios through large apartments mixed together. About 33% of households rent. Median home value is $1,141,764. Survey medians, not a listing you can message tonight.
Walk is 50 here vs 36 for the Seattle set — some errands work on foot; some still need a ride. Inside 800 meters: 17 groceries, 30 cafes, 187 transit stops, 172 parks. Not a Walk Score license.
The scores lean family relative to this city set. Nearby school rating is 8.4 / 10. Median age is 38.2. That rating is not your assigned campus.
24 typical weekday minutes to Downtown. Not the app on your phone this hour. Other job centers are further down this page.
About 37,665 people. Median income $173K. 82% have a bachelor's or higher.
University District, Lake City, Capitol Hill sit closest on this map. If you are choosing between two official districts, start with Northeast vs University District.
Adjacent on the map, ranked with your weights.
Northeast vs University DistrictNortheast vs Lake CityNortheast vs Capitol Hill
$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
Search Broadway or Pike/Pine; the official district also swallows Madison Park and Montlake. Night on one edge, lake money on the other.
$2K 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 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.
$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.