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Find Your Baltimore Waterfront Neighborhood

Compare home prices, property types, waterfront access, restaurants, nightlife, parking, walkability, lifestyle and downtown access across Canton, Federal Hill, Locust Point, Harbor East and Fells Point real estate — side by side.

Locust PointFederal Hill

Rowhomes, townhomes, boutique condos

Property types

Historic rowhomes, condo conversions

Water is on three sides.

Waterfront access

The neighborhood meets the water along Key Highway and the Inner Harbor promenade, with continuous walking access toward the Science Center, Rash Field and the downtown harbor edge.

Neighborhood corner restaurants inside converted rowhomes

Restaurants

Cross Street Market stalls for everything from oysters to tacos

Long-running corner taverns with regulars

Nightlife

One of Baltimore's densest bar corridors along Cross and Light Streets

One of the strongest parking situations among Baltimore's waterfront neighborhoods.

Parking

The tightest parking of the five featured neighborhoods.

Highly walkable within the peninsula for groceries, parks and restaurants.

Walkability

Exceptional.

Roughly 5 to 10 minutes by car to the Inner Harbor and downtown offices, or about 25 to 35 minutes on foot along the harbor promenade.

Downtown access

Walkable to the Inner Harbor in about 10 minutes and to the central business district in 15 to 20 minutes — the shortest pedestrian commute of the five neighborhoods.

Locust Point rewards people who want a genuine neighborhood rather than a nightlife district.

Lifestyle

Federal Hill suits people who want to leave the car parked all week. Groceries, gyms, restaurants, the harbor promenade and downtown offices are all within a walk, and weekends run on market visits, park time and full patios..

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