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#1FiDi / South Beach
$3K ACS median rent
Towers, the Embarcadero, and a ballpark on the south edge. Official name is Financial District/South Beach — search FiDi.
- Walk index
- 100
- Safety index
- 5
- Published fit
- 73
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San Francisco · CA · 20 analysis neighborhoods
Compare official San Francisco analysis neighborhoods on ACS rent, walk, safety, schools, and commute. Rankings stay inside this city.
Data period. ACS 2024 5-year (2020-2024) · SFPD Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 · OSM Sep 2026. ACS and SFPD retrieved 2026-09-01; OSM retrieved 2026-09-01. 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.
$3K ACS median rent
Towers, the Embarcadero, and a ballpark on the south edge. Official name is Financial District/South Beach — search FiDi.
$3K ACS median rent
Fog, taraval, and the largest analysis neighborhood in this set. Family streets, ocean at the end of the grid.
$2K ACS median rent
Valencia corridor, Mission murals, and a density that never sleeps. The official analysis neighborhood is just Mission — search the street names.
$2K ACS median rent
Cable cars, hotel bars, and a ridge between Chinatown and Pac Heights. Dense without SoMa's warehouse scale.
$2K ACS median rent
The last grid before the Pacific. Cheaper than Inner Richmond, foggier, and a bus ride from everywhere else.
$3K ACS median rent
Ninth Avenue, UCSF up the hill, and Cole Valley on the eastern edge. The walkable west side.
$3K ACS median rent
Clement Street dumplings and a walk to the park. Fog belt without giving up a grocery on the corner.
$2K ACS median rent
Caffe Trieste, Columbus Avenue, and Telegraph Hill stairs. Nightlife with a church bell still in earshot.
$3K ACS median rent
The crooked street is the postcard. The rest is steep walks, bay windows, and a quieter read of the north waterfront.
$3K ACS median rent
A hill with a park on top and Cortland at the base. South of the Mission without Mission prices — relatively.
$3K ACS median rent
The Haight is the brand; the Panhandle is the commute. Still walkable, still loud on weekends, still next to the park.
$2K ACS median rent
Alamo Square, the Fillmore, and Japantown sit inside this analysis neighborhood. Painted ladies are the postcard; the grid is the product.
$3K ACS median rent
The Castro is the search term; Castro/Upper Market is the official polygon. Hills, neon, and a Muni metro under Market.
$3K ACS median rent
Strollers on 24th, sun on the south slope, and the lowest violent rate in this set. The family read of inner SF.
$3K ACS median rent
Victorians on the hill and Fillmore shops at the bottom. The view is the product; the stairs are the tax.
$3K ACS median rent
The freeway came down; the boutiques stayed. A compact walk to the opera without living on the Tenderloin edge.
$2K ACS median rent
Tech lofts, clubs, and a crime rate that downtown visitor traffic inflates. Walk scores max; evening quiet depends on the block.
$3K ACS median rent
Sunny slope, Dogpatch on the eastern edge, and a view back at downtown. Quieter than the Mission; still inner.
$3K ACS median rent
Chestnut Street, the Palace of Fine Arts, and a bay that sells the neighborhood. Fog in the morning, crowds on the weekend.
$3K ACS median rent
UCSF, new towers, and a shoreline that did not exist a generation ago. Planned more than discovered.
Schematic analysis-neighborhood map — Pacific on the left, the bay on the right. Click a block to open it. Distances on this drawing are not street geography. Adjacent blocks are not a claim that two analysis neighborhoods share a border.
ACS 5-year median gross rent for San Francisco city. Up 62% since 2014.
Overlapping 5-year ACS windows (B25064), not asking rent. Figures are for the city place, household-weighted across all occupied rental units.
San Francisco uses analysis neighborhoods — the city’s official stats geography, with the Pacific on the west and the bay on the east. Hills and microclimates do not show up as extra rows.
The Castro, FiDi, SoMa, Cole Valley, and Cow Hollow are search aliases inside those analysis neighborhoods. The map is schematic, not a claim about who shares an alley.
Not a best-of list. Four cuts of the same 20 official analysis neighborhoods.
Walks more
Groceries, transit, parks
School-heavy
Nearby rating + calmer map
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 San Francisco only.
| # | Neighborhood | Published fit | ACS median rent | Walk index | Safety index |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FiDi / South Beach | 73 | $3,160 | 100 | 5 |
| 2 | Sunset / Parkside | 70 | $2,803 | 66 | 100 |
| 3 | Mission | 68 | $2,494 | 86 | 11 |
| 4 | Nob Hill | 64 | $2,106 | 73 | 37 |
| 5 | Outer Richmond | 53 | $2,371 | 26 | 89 |
| 6 | Inner Sunset | 47 | $2,916 | 13 | 95 |
| 7 | Inner Richmond | 44 | $2,661 | 8 | 84 |
| 8 | North Beach | 43 | $2,356 | 23 | 42 |
| 9 | Russian Hill | 40 | $2,788 | 11 | 53 |
| 10 | Bernal Heights | 40 | $2,833 | 6 | 79 |
| 11 | Haight-Ashbury | 39 | $3,027 | 13 | 74 |
| 12 | Western Addition | 37 | $2,077 | 15 | 32 |
| 13 | Castro | 37 | $2,763 | 20 | 21 |
| 14 | Noe Valley | 37 | $3,308 | 5 | 68 |
| 15 | Pacific Heights | 35 | $3,040 | 5 | 47 |
| 16 | Hayes Valley | 35 | $2,636 | 17 | 16 |
| 17 | South of Market | 33 | $2,100 | 24 | 0 |
| 18 | Potrero Hill | 33 | $3,376 | 7 | 58 |
| 19 | Marina | 30 | $3,204 | 4 | 26 |
| 20 | Mission Bay | 30 | $3,485 | 0 | 63 |
ACS median gross rent mixes every occupied rental. Walk is an in-house OSM count, not Walk Score. Safety ranks Part I rates inside San Francisco only.
Rent figures are ACS 5-year median gross rent (2020-2024, ACS 2024 5-year) mixed across unit sizes in the City and County of San Francisco. Western Addition is the lowest median in this set at $2,077. 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 SFPD Part I rates (Oct 2025 – Sep 2026) inside this San Francisco set only. A lower index means fewer Part I reports per 1,000 ACS residents relative to the other analysis neighborhoods 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 and County of San Francisco Analysis Neighborhoods (j2bu-swwd). Crime counts are SFPD Police Department Incident Reports 2018 to Present (wg3w-h783).
ACS and SFPD were retrieved 2026-09-01. OSM was retrieved 2026-09-01. 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 San Francisco number is built — not a grade of the place.
San Francisco uses analysis neighborhoods — the city’s official stats geography, with the Pacific on the west and the bay on the east. Hills and microclimates do not show up as extra rows.
Western Addition has the lowest ACS 5-year median gross rent in this set at $2,077 (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 analysis neighborhood or within 800 meters of its centroid. FiDi / South Beach currently leads the default walkable ranking. It is not a Walk Score® license.
Official analysis neighborhoods only — 20 on this map. The Castro, FiDi, SoMa, Cole Valley, and Cow Hollow are aliases on analysis neighborhoods. The schematic map is for clicking, not for measuring a shared border.
Housing is ACS 2024 5-year (2020-2024). Crime is SFPD Part I for Oct 2025 – Sep 2026. OSM amenities were snapshotted 2026-09-01. Editorial copy on these pages was last revised Sep 2026.
No. A number here is a rank inside these 20 official analysis neighborhoods, not a grade you can carry to another city.
Six axes — safety, schools, walk, cost, vibe, and optional commute — scaled only inside San Francisco, then weighted. With default walkable weights and a $2,500 ACS rent budget, FiDi / South Beach is the current top match (73 published fit). Rankings never jump a city line. The formula is on the method page.
Full formula on the method page.