Seattle/Northwest
Official district: Northwest
Data vintage. ACS 2024 5-year · SPD Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 · OSM Sep 2026 · updated Sep 2026
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.
Best in Seattle for familiesWalkable SeattleUnder $2,500 rent
141 violent · 1229 property · 28.2 per 1k (Oct 2025 – Sep 2026)+29 vs city set
Rating 7.4 / 10 nearby+9 vs city set
OSM: 18 groceries · 29 cafes · 111 transit · 64 parks-8 vs city set
$1,925 ACS median vs your rent budget+2 vs city set
OSM: 29 cafes · 74 restaurants · 18 bars · 64 parks-6 vs city set
From Northwest, a typical weekday is 26 min to Downtown, 22 min to South Lake Union, 22 min to University. Not live traffic.
South Lake Union is the fastest of these three job centers from here.
Pike Place, Pioneer Square · +8 min vs the city-set median
Amazon, Cascade · +3 min vs the city-set median · fastest of these three
UW campus, the Ave · +1 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 $1,925 — every occupied rental mixed together, not the 1-bed in the window.
That is 17% of median household income — under the 30% HUD line. A household at this area’s median income ($140K) could “afford” about $3,492 a month at 30% of pay.
43% of households rent. Median home value is $974,623.
ACS 5-year median gross rent for Seattle city. Up 79% since 2014. Northwest is 5% 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: 18 groceries, 29 cafes, 64 parks, and 111 transit stops.
Daily errands and coffee are realistic on foot. Parks are close — 64 mapped parks in that radius. Transit is dense (111 stops or stations).
29 cafes and 74 restaurants make this one of the busier food pockets in the Seattle set.
OpenStreetMap, 800 meters. Not a Walk Score license. More groceries than 11 of the other 19 areas in this city.
ACS 2024 5-year (2020-2024) · 11 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.
Greenwood’s commercial strip, Crown Hill, Broadview’s bluff. Search Greenwood. The official district runs to the city line. More house than Fremont, more arterial than Magnolia.
Phinney Ridge is next door in North Central if you wanted the zoo and the hill. Weight family. Ballard is the night to the south. The water is a drive unless you picked Blue Ridge.
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.
908 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, the police, and pets.
r/Seattle · Aug 27 · 24 upvotes
r/Seattle · Aug 30 · 17 upvotes
r/Seattle · Sep 2 · 12 upvotes
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.
Northwest sits on the quieter side of this Seattle map (safety 79 vs city 50). SPD logged 2.9 violent and 25.3 property incidents per 1,000 residents — 28.2 combined. Visitors count in those numbers. This is not a judgment of who lives here.
ACS median rent is $1,925 — studios through large apartments mixed together. About 43% of households rent. Median home value is $974,623. 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: 18 groceries, 29 cafes, 111 transit stops, 64 parks. Not a Walk Score license.
The scores lean family relative to this city set. Nearby school rating is 7.4 / 10. Median age is 40.6. That rating is not your assigned campus.
26 typical weekday minutes to Downtown. Not the app on your phone this hour. Other job centers are further down this page.
About 48,539 people. Median income $140K. 65% have a bachelor's or higher.
Ballard, Northgate, North Central sit closest on this map. If you are choosing between two official districts, start with Northwest vs Ballard.
Adjacent on the map, ranked with your weights.
Northwest vs BallardNorthwest vs NorthgateNorthwest vs North Central
$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 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.
$3K 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 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.