Washington, D.C.
Capitol Hill/City

First Hill has an above average violent crime rate and a below average property crime rate for Seattle.

Separated from Capitol Hill by a slight rise in elevation, First Hill can be less rowdy than Capitol Hill—a feature some of the residents enjoy—while maintaining its own nightlife, from divey Quarter Lounge to the upscale Sorrento Hotel to the dark and art-filled Hideout.

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It’s a dangerous block.” Seattle police stats also showed most blocks with high rates of violent crime are in the same part of downtown. In the last three years, there were more than 100 violent crimes on Third between Pine and Pike, Pine between Fourth and Fifth, and Pike between Second and Third.

Capitol Hill, in addition to being a metonym for the United States Congress, is the largest historic residential neighborhood in Washington, D.C., stretching easterly in front of the United States Capitol along wide avenues.

Seattle Children’s Hospital, Seattle. The hospital serves patients from Washington, Alaska, Montana and Idaho and is designated a Level I Pediatric Trauma Rehabilitation Center by the Department of Health.

Virginia Mason Memorial Hospital

First Hill is a neighborhood in Seattle, Washington, named for the hill on which it is located. The hill, in turn, is so named for being the first hill one encounters traveling east from downtown Seattle toward Lake Washington.

First Hill’s major thoroughfares, assuming its greatest possible extent, include Madison, James, Cherry, and Spring Streets and Yesler Way (east- and west-bound) and 9th and Boren Avenues and Broadway (north- and south-bound).

First Hill is a dense urban neighborhood in Seattle. Rich in history, the First Hill community has an incredible variety of people, business, and arts and cultural institutions that make it a uniquely wonderful place to live, work, and visit. Find out about our organization, mission and goals.

The First Hill Streetcar is an important link in the regional transit system, connecting to the Link light rail at the Capitol Hill and International District stations, the Sounder Commuter Rail and Amtrak intercity rail at the King Street Station, and Metro Transit buses at several points.