Most “best neighborhoods in DC” lists rank places by vibe. This one starts with what you can actually buy. Below are median sale prices, the condo-versus-house split, and how fast homes sold in all 32 DC neighborhoods on wardman.ai, from 12 months of closed sales.
Three questions narrow the list faster than any ranking:
- Condo or house? Citywide, the median condo or co-op sold for $485,000 and the median house for $900,000. Some neighborhoods are almost all one or the other.
- What’s your price ceiling? The gap between neighborhoods is wide — the median house in Spring Valley cost more than three times the median house in Brookland.
- How much room do you want to negotiate? Median days on market ranged from 6 in American University Park to 61 in Downtown DC.
DC neighborhoods by price: all 32, side by side
Bright MLS closed sales, October 2025 – September 2026. “House” includes rowhouses, semi-detached and detached homes. Where a neighborhood had fewer than 10 sales of a type, the median is left out and the count is shown in parentheses.
| Neighborhood | Sales | Median price | Condo/co-op median (sales) | House median (sales) | Median days on market | Sold vs. original list |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adams Morgan | 131 | $712,000 | $660,000 (109) | $1,227,500 (22) | 19 | 98.6% |
| American University Park | 83 | $1,411,000 | — (9) | $1,482,500 (74) | 6 | 100.0% |
| Brookland | 107 | $735,000 | $455,000 (15) | $837,500 (92) | 23 | 98.2% |
| Capitol Hill | 433 | $1,000,000 | $523,500 (110) | $1,135,000 (323) | 11 | 98.8% |
| Cathedral Heights | 139 | $399,900 | $360,000 (128) | $2,175,000 (11) | 50 | 95.6% |
| Chevy Chase DC | 143 | $1,335,000 | $210,000 (21) | $1,500,000 (122) | 9 | 100.0% |
| Chinatown | 27 | $489,900 | $486,200 (26) | — (1) | 29 | 97.4% |
| Cleveland Park | 115 | $540,000 | $425,000 (75) | $1,872,000 (40) | 20 | 97.5% |
| Columbia Heights | 196 | $710,000 | $565,000 (125) | $980,000 (71) | 23 | 97.3% |
| Crestwood | 27 | $1,575,000 | — (0) | $1,575,000 (27) | 21 | 97.1% |
| Downtown DC | 31 | $725,000 | $725,000 (31) | — (0) | 61 | 95.0% |
| Dupont Circle | 213 | $520,000 | $445,000 (173) | $1,932,500 (40) | 27 | 97.2% |
| Foggy Bottom | 85 | $315,000 | $303,000 (81) | — (4) | 51 | 92.4% |
| Friendship Heights | 40 | $1,215,000 | — (9) | $1,310,000 (31) | 8 | 99.5% |
| Georgetown | 186 | $1,725,000 | $735,000 (58) | $2,062,500 (128) | 16 | 97.3% |
| H Street Corridor | 106 | $811,250 | $647,500 (32) | $881,500 (74) | 20.5 | 97.6% |
| Hill East | 45 | $799,900 | — (7) | $875,000 (38) | 9 | 100.0% |
| Kalorama | 113 | $735,000 | $619,250 (90) | $2,600,000 (23) | 26 | 96.9% |
| Logan Circle | 177 | $696,000 | $599,000 (143) | $1,767,500 (34) | 24 | 97.3% |
| Mount Pleasant | 79 | $1,279,000 | $537,000 (30) | $1,580,000 (49) | 8 | 100.0% |
| Mount Vernon Triangle | 47 | $553,000 | $539,000 (46) | — (1) | 41 | 96.4% |
| Navy Yard | 52 | $628,750 | $524,900 (35) | $1,160,000 (17) | 27 | 97.0% |
| NoMa | 33 | $799,000 | $795,000 (17) | $824,500 (16) | 41 | 97.2% |
| Palisades | 46 | $1,447,500 | — (4) | $1,750,000 (42) | 17 | 97.9% |
| Penn Quarter | 37 | $439,000 | $439,000 (37) | — (0) | 32 | 96.2% |
| Shaw | 112 | $994,500 | $899,900 (43) | $1,100,000 (69) | 28.5 | 97.7% |
| Southwest Waterfront | 120 | $363,500 | $338,900 (107) | $1,075,000 (13) | 39 | 95.9% |
| Spring Valley | 41 | $2,850,000 | — (0) | $2,850,000 (41) | 11 | 98.0% |
| Tenleytown | 25 | $1,400,000 | — (5) | $1,425,000 (20) | 13 | 98.3% |
| U Street Corridor | 110 | $787,500 | $527,000 (66) | $1,390,500 (44) | 23 | 97.8% |
| West End | 106 | $680,000 | $660,750 (102) | — (4) | 26.5 | 96.6% |
| Woodley Park | 41 | $1,450,000 | $447,000 (20) | $1,775,000 (21) | 9 | 98.4% |
Neighborhood lines in DC are informal. These figures use the same boundaries as our neighborhood pages, and a few neighbors (Penn Quarter, Chinatown and Downtown DC, for example) share edges.
The best DC neighborhoods for your budget and home type
Where a condo or co-op sold for under $500,000
Nine neighborhoods had a condo/co-op median under $500,000 with at least 10 sales: Foggy Bottom ($303,000), Southwest Waterfront ($338,900), Cathedral Heights ($360,000), Cleveland Park ($425,000), Penn Quarter ($439,000), Dupont Circle ($445,000), Woodley Park ($447,000), Brookland ($455,000) and Chinatown ($486,200). Dupont Circle had the most condo and co-op sales of any neighborhood here, at 173.
The lowest-priced condo markets also moved slowest. Foggy Bottom condos took a median 51 days and sold at 91.8% of their original list price; in Cathedral Heights it was 54.5 days. For a buyer, that is room to negotiate. Building-by-building numbers are on our DC condo building pages.
Where a house sold for under $1 million
Five neighborhoods had a house median under $1 million: NoMa ($824,500), Brookland ($837,500), Hill East ($875,000), H Street Corridor ($881,500) and Columbia Heights ($980,000). They move quickly: Hill East houses sold in a median 9 days on market, Brookland and H Street houses in 16.5.
Where houses sold for $1.5 million and up
At the top, Spring Valley ($2.85 million), Kalorama ($2.6 million), Georgetown ($2.06 million), Dupont Circle ($1.93 million) and Cleveland Park ($1.87 million) led on house prices. Georgetown (128 house sales) and Chevy Chase DC (122, at a $1.5 million median) were the busiest house markets in this tier; just under it, American University Park had 74 house sales at $1.48 million. By overall median price per square foot, Georgetown was the most expensive neighborhood in this data at $922.
