Overviewa grid older than the city

Life in Georgetown, DC

Federal and Georgian rowhouses step down toward the canal and the river, block after block, in a grid older than the city around it.

The retail spine on M Street and Wisconsin Avenue keeps the daytime busy and the university keeps it young, but a block above either street the noise falls away into gardens and quiet residential blocks that have been lived in for more than two centuries.

It is the oldest neighborhood in Washington and one of its most sought-after, a market of historic rowhouses and larger homes where demand is steady and inventory tends to stay limited.

Dining, Entertainment, Shopping

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Name	Type	Distance
Lutéce1522 Wisconsin Avenue Northwest	French	0.04 mi
Yellow1524 Wisconsin Avenue Northwest	Cafe	0.04 mi
The Phoenix1514 Wisconsin Avenue Northwest	Clothes	0.05 mi
G-Land Uniforms1516 Wisconsin Avenue Northwest	Clothes	0.05 mi
Wisconsin Barber1518 Wisconsin Avenue Northwest	Hairdresser	0.05 mi
Mane Street Georgetown1510 Wisconsin Avenue Northwest	Hairdresser	0.06 mi
Solbiato1511 Wisconsin Avenue Northwest	Clothes	0.06 mi

Places data from OpenStreetMap contributors. Community maintained, so coverage varies and it is not a complete listing. Distances are approximate straight-line distances from the guide’s reference point.

Within Georgetown

Notable Neighborhoods in Georgetown

The East VillageWisconsin Avenue to Rock Creek
The West VillageWisconsin Avenue to the university
The WaterfrontBelow M Street, on the Potomac
Book HillShops and galleries along Wisconsin Avenue NW between O Street and Reservoir Road
The University EdgeToward the campus and Burleith

Schools in Georgetown, DC

The public schools below are listed because their attendance area covers part of Georgetown, and the share column is how much of it each one covers. Private schools have no attendance area, so they are listed because they sit in Georgetown. Attendance is assigned by address, so confirm the assignment for a specific property with DC Public Schools before you rely on it.

Name	Grades	Share of Georgetown	Students	Per teacher	DC CAPE proficiency
Stoddert Elementary School4001 Calvert St. NW, Washington, DC 20007	PK-5	3.8%	425	12.1	ELA68.7%Math75.3%
Hyde-Addison Elementary School3219 O St. NW, Washington, DC 20007	PK-5	92.4%	400	12.5	ELA77.5%Math76.3%
Key Elementary School5001 Dana Pl. NW, Washington, DC 20016	PK-5	2.9%	337	13	ELA82%Math82.9%

DC CAPE figures are the share of students meeting or exceeding expectations in 2025-26, as OSSE publishes them.

Demographics and Employment Data for Georgetown, DC

11,036Total population

8,967 / sq miPopulation density

45 / 55%Men vs women

Population by age group

0 to 94.3%

10 to 171.6%

18 to 2436.8%

25 to 6438.7%

65 to 7410.2%

75 and over8.4%

Education level

Less than high school96 (1.5%)
High school graduate231 (3.6%)
Some college or associate358 (5.7%)
Bachelor's degree1,971 (31.1%)
Graduate or professional3,673 (58%)

Educational attainment covers the population 25 and over, not the whole population.

SourceU.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, 2019 to 2023

Area measuredGeorgetown, four covering Census tracts, 1.2307778507857545 square miles of land

Area basisGeorgetown is not a Census place, so these figures cover the four Census tracts that hold 98.9% of it. Three of the four sit almost entirely inside Georgetown; the fourth is about two thirds inside, so the area described reaches a little past its northern edge.

MediansMedians cannot be added together, so no median is shown for the combined area. Median household income runs from 135,708 to 159,583 across the four tracts. Median age runs from 19.8 to 56.6 across the four tracts.

Who is counted3,553 of the 11,036 residents counted here live in group quarters rather than in households, student housing being the usual reason, which is why the age profile leans young. Georgetown University's campus sits inside the boundary. The household figures below, tenure and household size among them, count only the 7,483 people who live in households.

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