Noe Valley
Noe Valley is a residential neighborhood in the southern part of San Francisco, California with a population of 19,803. Located in San Francisco County and is one of the best places to live in California. Living in Noe Valley offers residents a dense urban feel and most residents own their homes. There are a lot of bars, restaurants, coffee shops, and parks. Many young professionals live in Noe Valley and residents tend to be liberal. The public schools in Noe Valley are above average.
It’s quiet here, which residents prefer but keeps the neighborhood more family-friendly than young and hip — though it’s not far from the Mission, which comes to life in the evenings and is just a hilly walk home to slumbering Noe Valley. South of Castro, west of Outer Mission, and about a five-mile commute to the Financial District.
What to expect here is that Noe Valley lacks in hip nightlife it makes up for in family-friendly fun in the park or along quaint 24th St. where kids in soccer cleats and neighbors gather on weekends and couples enjoy date nights at any one of the casual but intimate restaurants. It is also popular with young families, earning it the nickname Stroller Town.
Just like its other neighborhoods, Noe Valley streets have many examples of the Victorian and Edwardian houses San Francisco is well-known for. It was originally developed as a middle-class neighborhood, with houses built in rows, some ornate, some plain, depending on the owner's budget.
The lifestyle here in Noe Valley is casual and comfortable. Noe Valley is a proper village — complete with a butcher, a cheesemonger, a chocolate shop, a book shop and storefronts with even more panache, like farm-to-table cafes and boutiques — making weekends come alive with activity, all without the expected pretense. One other thing that you'll love about this neighborhood is its proximity to everything you can go south of San Francisco. Though it’s close enough to downtown San Francisco to make the daily commute with ease, Noe Valley is also beautifully positioned to give you access to the freeways to transport you to Silicon Valley without too much hassle.
What you will fall in love with in this neighborhood is its safety, sleepy streets, and spacious homes designed for longtime residency. If sunshine and village life suit you but you want to be close enough to the action, Noe Valley is for you, with its adorable main strip that has an elevated small-town feel and sheer and deliberate peacefulness.
