South · District of Columbia · pop 680K
Washington, DC
Fair match
at the reference profile: one person earning $6,700/mo gross, default weights.
Personalize this score →After estimated taxes in DC, your $6,700/mo income nets about $5,037 — covering estimated essentials here (about $1,785 rent plus everyday costs incl. local sales tax) with roughly $475 left over.
Expect summer highs near 89°F, winter lows around 30°F, and about 203 sunny days a year.
There's plenty to do — roughly 36 restaurants, arts, and recreation spots per 10k residents.
Tradeoff: the local job market is softer than most on this list (4.8% unemployment).
The Washington fit print
Est. monthly cost
$4,562/mo
Typical rent
$2,100/mo
Home value ÷ income
7.0×
Score breakdown
The data behind the score
Money (Census ACS · HUD)
- Median gross rent
- $1,900/mo
- HUD fair market rent (2BR)
- $2,100/mo
- Median home value
- $705,000
- Median household income
- $101,000
- Population
- 680,000
Work (BLS)
- Unemployment rate
- 4.8%
- Job growth (1yr)
- 0.5%
Safety (FBI CDE, per 100k)
- Violent crime rate
- 940
- Property crime rate
- 4,100
Climate (NOAA normals)
- Avg. summer high
- 89°F
- Avg. winter low
- 30°F
- Sunny days / year
- 203
- Days ≥100°F by 2050 (air temp)
- ≈10/yr
- Dangerous humid days by 2050 (feels-like)
- ≈60/yr
- Unhealthy air days
- ≈9/yr
- Annual rain
- 42"
- Annual snow
- 14"
Community & access (approx.)
- 2024 county margin
- D+86
- Int'l airport
- ≈5 mi
- Walkability
- 77/100
- Disaster risk
- 40/100
Data vintage: sample-approx-2024. Sources & methodology — this deployment is running the bundled sample dataset; figures are approximate.
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