Neighborhoods in Washington, D.C.

Neighborhoods in Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United States, are distinguished by their history, culture, architecture, demographics, and geography. The names of the 131 neighborhoods are unofficially defined by the D.C. Office of Planning.^[1] Though the neighborhoods can be defined by the boundaries of wards, historic districts, Advisory Neighborhood Commissions, civic associations, and business improvement districts (BIDs), these boundaries will overlap. The eight wards each elect a member to the Council of the District of Columbia and are redistricted every ten years.

As the nation's capital, Washington, D.C.'s local neighborhood history and culture is often presented as distinct from that of the national government.

List of neighborhoods by ward

Neighborhood	Ward	Area (mi²)	Area (km²)	Population	Established
Adams Morgan	I	0.47	1.2	17,113	1958
Columbia Heights		0.85	2.2	31,696	1881
Kalorama Triangle					1890
Lanier Heights					1890
LeDroit Park					1873
Meridian Hill
Mount Pleasant
Park View		0.25	0.6	5,099
Pleasant Plains
U Street Corridor				5,385
Woodley Park
Burleith	II
Chinatown
Downtown
Dupont Circle
Dupont Circle
Foggy Bottom
Georgetown
Sheridan-Kalorama
Logan Circle
Mount Vernon Square

Ward 1

Ward 1 Councilmember: Brianne Nadeau

Population (2022): 88,846^[2]

Adams Morgan
Columbia Heights
Howard University
Kalorama Triangle
LeDroit Park
Lanier Heights
Meridian Hill
Mount Pleasant
Park View
Pleasant Plains
Shaw (parts of the neighborhood are also in Ward 2)
U Street Corridor (part of the neighborhood is also in Ward 2)

Ward 2

Ward 2 Councilmember: Brooke Pinto

Population (2022): 89,518^[3]

Burleith
Chinatown
Downtown
Dupont Circle
Federal Triangle
Foggy Bottom
Georgetown
Sheridan-Kalorama
Logan Circle
Mount Vernon Square (part of the neighborhood is also in Ward 6)
Penn Quarter
Shaw (parts of the neighborhood are also in Ward 1)
Southwest Federal Center
U Street Corridor (part of the neighborhood is also in Ward 1)
West End

Ward 3

Ward 3 Councilmember: Matthew Frumin

Population (2022): 81,883^[4]

Ward 4

Ward 4 Councilmember: Janeese Lewis George

Population (2022): 83,996^[5]

Barnaby Woods
Brightwood
Brightwood Park
Chevy Chase (part of the neighborhood is also in Ward 3)
Colonial Village
Crestwood
Fort Totten
Hawthorne
Manor Park
Petworth
Riggs Park (also known as Lamond Riggs)
Shepherd Park
Sixteenth Street Heights
Takoma

Ward 5

Ward 5 Councilmember: Zachary Parker

Population (2022): 86,794^[6]

Arboretum
Bloomingdale
Brentwood
Brookland
Carver Langston
Eckington
Edgewood
Fort Lincoln
Fort Totten
Gateway
Ivy City
Langdon
Michigan Park
North Michigan Park
Pleasant Hill
Queens Chapel
Riggs Park (part of the neighborhood is also in Ward 4)
Stronghold
Trinidad
Truxton Circle
Woodridge

Ward 6

Ward 6 Councilmember: Charles Allen

Population (2022): 99,652^[7]

Buzzard Point
Capitol Hill
Lincoln Park
Judiciary Square
Mount Vernon Triangle
Near Northeast
NoMa
Southwest Waterfront
Sursum Corda
Swampoodle (a neighborhood from the 1850s to the 1910s, replaced in large part today by NoMa and Near Northeast)

Ward 7

Ward 7 Councilmember: Wendell Felder

Population (2022): 77,456^[8]

Ward 8

Ward 8 Councilmember: Trayon White

Population (2022): 77,756^[9]

References

^ "Neighborhood Labels as Centroids". opendata.DC.gov. DC Office of Planning. Archived from the original on May 30, 2017. Retrieved May 31, 2017.
^ Matters, DC Health. "DC Health Matters :: Demographics :: Ward :: Ward 1 :: Population". www.dchealthmatters.org. Retrieved April 22, 2024.
^ Matters, DC Health. "DC Health Matters :: Demographics :: Ward :: Ward 2 :: Population". www.dchealthmatters.org. Retrieved April 22, 2024.
^ Matters, DC Health. "DC Health Matters :: Demographics :: Ward :: Ward 3 :: Population". www.dchealthmatters.org. Retrieved April 22, 2024.
^ Matters, DC Health. "DC Health Matters :: Demographics :: Ward :: Ward 4 :: Population". www.dchealthmatters.org. Retrieved April 22, 2024.
^ Matters, DC Health. "DC Health Matters :: Demographics :: Ward :: Ward 5 :: Population". www.dchealthmatters.org. Retrieved April 22, 2024.
^ Matters, DC Health. "DC Health Matters :: Demographics :: Ward :: Ward 6 :: Population". www.dchealthmatters.org. Retrieved April 22, 2024.
^ Matters, DC Health. "DC Health Matters :: Demographics :: Ward :: Ward 7 :: Population". www.dchealthmatters.org. Retrieved April 22, 2024.
^ Matters, DC Health. "DC Health Matters :: Demographics :: Ward :: Ward 8 :: Population". www.dchealthmatters.org. Retrieved April 22, 2024.

External links

External link to D.C. neighborhood websites
DC Genealogical Database
National Capital Planning Commission
D.C. Guide
Washington DC, street by street (historic and modern photographs)
Street map of Ward 4. Office of Councilmember Muriel Bowser.

[1] "Neighborhood Labels as Centroids". opendata.DC.gov. DC Office of Planning. Archived from the original on May 30, 2017. Retrieved May 31, 2017.

[2] Matters, DC Health. "DC Health Matters :: Demographics :: Ward :: Ward 1 :: Population". www.dchealthmatters.org. Retrieved April 22, 2024.

[3] Matters, DC Health. "DC Health Matters :: Demographics :: Ward :: Ward 2 :: Population". www.dchealthmatters.org. Retrieved April 22, 2024.

[4] Matters, DC Health. "DC Health Matters :: Demographics :: Ward :: Ward 3 :: Population". www.dchealthmatters.org. Retrieved April 22, 2024.

[5] Matters, DC Health. "DC Health Matters :: Demographics :: Ward :: Ward 4 :: Population". www.dchealthmatters.org. Retrieved April 22, 2024.

[6] Matters, DC Health. "DC Health Matters :: Demographics :: Ward :: Ward 5 :: Population". www.dchealthmatters.org. Retrieved April 22, 2024.

[7] Matters, DC Health. "DC Health Matters :: Demographics :: Ward :: Ward 6 :: Population". www.dchealthmatters.org. Retrieved April 22, 2024.

[8] Matters, DC Health. "DC Health Matters :: Demographics :: Ward :: Ward 7 :: Population". www.dchealthmatters.org. Retrieved April 22, 2024.

[9] Matters, DC Health. "DC Health Matters :: Demographics :: Ward :: Ward 8 :: Population". www.dchealthmatters.org. Retrieved April 22, 2024.

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