Let's Rank the Neighborhoods!!! (Washington: apartment complex, violent crime, university)

[lentzr]

There has been many discussion in here on exactly how safe certain neighborhoods are...like where are the worst ghettos in DC. Let's answer the safety question once and for all by categorizing all the neighborhoods in DC as of 2012 in one of three potential categories...

Green - safe during day and reasonably safe (with normal precautions) at night

Yellow - Borderline (you can us a ^ if this neighborhood is on the upswing)

Red - Bad, we all know what is meant by this.


Feel free to use "green-yellow, yellow-red or bright red if you want to be more specific.

Note: I uploaded the Wikipedia Map of all of the neighborhoods in DC. The list of neighborhoods comes from Wikipedia...

I will post what I know so far...

Ward 1
Adams Morgan - yellow-green
Columbia Heights yellow-green
Howard University
Kalorama
LeDroit Park
Mount Pleasant
Park View
Pleasant Plains
Shaw ^

Ward 2
Burleith
Chinatown
Downtown - green
Dupont Circle - green
Federal Triangle - green
Foggy Bottom - green
Georgetown - green
Logan Circle
Mount Vernon Square
Penn Quarter
Shaw
Sheridan Kalorama
Southwest Federal Center
West End

Ward 3
American University Park -green
Berkley -green
Cathedral Heights -green
Chevy Chase -green
Cleveland Park -green
Colony Hill -green
Forest Hills -green
Foxhall -green
Friendship Heights -green
Glover Park -green
Kent -green
Massachusetts Heights -green
McLean Gardens -green
North Cleveland Park -green
Observatory Circle -green
Potomac Heights -green
Spring Valley -green
Tenleytown -green
The Palisades -green
Wakefield -green
Wesley Heights -green
Woodland-Normanstone Terrace -green
Woodley Park -green

Ward 4
Barnaby Woods
Brightwood
Brightwood Park
Chevy Chase -green
Colonial Village
Crestwood
Fort Totten
Hawthorne
Manor Park
Petworth
Queens Chapel
Riggs Park
Shepherd Park -green
Sixteenth Street Heights
Takoma

Ward 5
Arboretum
Bloomingdale
Brentwood
Brookland
Carver Langston
Eckington
Edgewood
Fort Lincoln
Fort Totten
Gateway
Ivy City
Langdon - red
Michigan Park
North Michigan Park
Pleasant Hill
Riggs Park
Stronghold
Trinidad - red
Truxton Circle
Woodridge

Ward 6
Barney Circle
Capitol Hill -green
Judiciary Square
Kingman Park
Navy Yard
Near Northeast
Southwest Waterfront - yellow-green
Sursum Corda
Swampoodle

Ward 7
Benning Heights
Benning Ridge
Benning
Burrville
Capitol View
Central Northeast
Civic Betterment
Deanwood
Dupont Park
Eastland Gardens
Fairfax Village
Fairlawn
Fort Davis
Fort Dupont
Good Hope
Greenway
Hillbrook
Hillcrest
Kenilworth
Kingman Park
Lincoln Heights
Marshall Heights
Mayfair
Naylor Gardens
Penn Branch
Randle Highlands
River Terrace
Skyland
Twining

Ward 8
Anacostia
Barry Farm
Bellevue
Buena Vista
Congress Heights
Douglass
Fairlawn
Garfield Heights
Knox Hill
Shipley Terrace
Washington Highlands
Woodland

This system should answer it once and for all!

[lentzr]

Why no responses? I am dead serious about this post.

[jokerstars]

Pretty sure Navy Yard is too far down your list if safety is a factor. I remember looking at a crime map and saw less violent crime around there than Eastern Market/Capitol Hill.

[PhenomenalAJ]

lol well I'll help you out a bit and cast all of Ward 8 as red. Don't go there if you don't have to

[lentzr]

What about the rest?

[Yiuppy]

As a lifetime resident in Ward 8, I'd rank:

Woodland: bold blinking RED.

Anacostia: yellow^

Congress Heights: yellow/red^

Buena Vista: RED

Douglass: RED^

Knox Hill: yellow^

Garfield Heights: yellow

[timbo8]

And by all accounts, can't you rate Hillcrest as... green?

Also I think I'd put Washington Highlands down as red.

[King0fthehill]

Edgewood and Brentwood definitely get "red" from me. The apartment complex at Saratoga and Montana no doubt contributes to the red rating for the latter nabe.

[timbo8]

Here are a bunch of greens, just throwin out there:

- All of Ward 3
- Georgetown
- Dupont Circle
- Foggy Bottom
- West End
- Downtown
- Penn Quarter
- Chinatown
- Logan Circle
- Kalorama
- North Portal Estates
- Shepherds Park
- Takoma
- Judiciary Square
- Crestwood
- Capitol Hill
- Navy Yard

[lentzr]

Good Guys! Keep it coming...When we are done, I will post a MAP!