DC market data
What DC homes cost per square foot
Every neighborhood in the District, split by condition — because a renovated rowhouse and one that needs everything are not the same market, and no one else separates them.
Across Washington DC, a house the assessor rates as recently renovated sold for a median of $813 per square foot over the last 3 years, while one rated dated or in need of work sold for $489. Between neighborhoods the range is wider still — from $326 to $1,097 per square foot.
Hover for the key figures. Select a neighborhood on the map, or from the table below.
Capitol Hill & Lincoln Park
Neighborhood guideBy condition
A remodel recorded with the city in the last 10 years, and the assessor rates the structure Excellent or Very Good.
Sound condition, with no recent remodel on record.
The assessor rates the structure Average, Fair or Poor.
What’s built here
- Row Inside72%
- Row End19%
- Semi-Detached5%
- Single2%
- Multi2%
| Georgetown & Burleith | $2.0M | $1,097 | +33% | 410 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Foggy Bottom & West End | $1.3M | $939 | — | 38 |
| Cleveland Park & Woodley Park | $2.1M | $894 | +51% | 186 |
| Dupont Circle | $1.9M | $868 | +71% | 139 |
| Glover Park & Cathedral Heights | $1.4M | $859 | +31% | 165 |
| Adams Morgan & Kalorama | $2.2M | $815 | +71% | 112 |
| Tenleytown & AU Park | $1.5M | $794 | +25% | 320 |
| Palisades & Spring Valley | $2.1M | $774 | +21% | 429 |
| Capitol Hill & Lincoln Park | $1.2M | $771 | +40% | 746 |
| Van Ness & Forest Hills | $1.9M | $763 | +35% | 102 |
| Chevy Chase DC & Barnaby Woods | $1.5M | $734 | +34% | 416 |
| LeDroit Park & Howard University | $1.1M | $718 | +37% | 160 |
| Shaw & Logan Circle | $1.3M | $705 | +72% | 143 |
| Navy Yard & Near Southeast | $1.1M | $689 | — | 40 |
| Kingman Park & Stanton Park | $970K | $678 | +50% | 693 |
| Columbia Heights & Mount Pleasant | $1.1M | $635 | +57% | 413 |
| Southwest Waterfront | $1.1M | $625 | — | 47 |
| Bloomingdale & Eckington | $932K | $611 | +55% | 502 |
| Shepherd Park & Colonial Village | $1.3M | $591 | +17% | 95 |
| Petworth & Brightwood Park | $900K | $581 | +51% | 680 |
| Downtown & Penn Quarter | $850K | $555 | — | 19 |
| Walter Reed | $973K | $548 | — | 35 |
| Brookland & Langdon | $870K | $546 | +35% | 225 |
| Takoma & Brightwood | $750K | $523 | +37% | 328 |
| Michigan Park & University Heights | $637K | $508 | +31% | 234 |
| Fort Totten & Riggs Park | $600K | $499 | +39% | 238 |
| St. Elizabeths | $586K | $493 | — | 28 |
| Trinidad & Ivy City | $700K | $477 | +68% | 222 |
| Woodridge & Fort Lincoln | $715K | $441 | +43% | 133 |
| River Terrace & Benning | $425K | $391 | +45% | 124 |
| Randle Highlands & Fairlawn | $470K | $384 | +65% | 231 |
| Marshall Heights & Capitol View | $438K | $379 | +77% | 270 |
| Hillcrest & Fairfax Village | $633K | $377 | — | 59 |
| Eastland Gardens & Kenilworth | $485K | $353 | — | 15 |
| Garfield Heights & Fort Stanton | $450K | $350 | — | 35 |
| Barry Farm & Sheridan | $550K | $349 | — | 76 |
| Deanwood & Lincoln Heights | $420K | $349 | +79% | 196 |
| Mayfair & Hillbrook | $400K | $347 | +83% | 67 |
| Historic Anacostia | $488K | $345 | +34% | 54 |
| Douglass & Shipley Terrace | $405K | $331 | +77% | 78 |
| Congress Heights & Washington Highlands | $435K | $326 | +77% | 256 |
Where renovation pays the most
The gap between a finished house and one that needs work, by neighborhood — the six widest. A wide gap means the market rewards finished work; a narrow one means buyers here are not paying much of a premium for it.
Common questions
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Thinking about a specific house?
These are city-wide patterns. What matters is whether the one you're looking at works for you — and if it needs work, whether the renovation can be financed. That's a conversation, not a calculator.
How this was built
Figures come from the District of Columbia’s property assessment and sales records, published through Open Data DC by the Office of the Chief Financial Officer. Data current through 2026-08-12; this page was generated on 2026-08-21.
Only sales the District flags as qualified — arm’s-length transactions — are counted, which excludes intra-family transfers, foreclosures and nominal deed corrections. All figures are medians, never averages, so a single extraordinary sale cannot move a neighborhood’s number. Medians cover the last 3 years; where a segment had too few sales in that window, 5 years are used and the panel says so. Nothing is published from fewer than 8 sales.
Condition segments. A house counts as renovated when the District has a remodel recorded within the last 10 years and the assessor rates the structure Excellent or Very Good. Requiring both matters: condition alone would label roughly two-thirds of the city renovated, which would tell you nothing. “Dated or needs work” means a condition rating of Average, Fair or Poor — Good is the most common rating in this scale, so Average sits below the middle of the market. Condominium records carry no condition rating at all, so the condo view is segmented by bedroom count instead.
Square footage is the assessor’s gross building area, which may treat finished basements and additions differently from an appraiser. Neighborhoods are the District’s official neighborhood clusters, labelled here with the names people actually use.
These are recorded sales and assessment records. They are not appraisals, not listings, and not an estimate of the value of any particular property. Source: DC Office of the Chief Financial Officer, via Open Data DC (CC BY 4.0).