HoodEx has a profile for every part of Mexico City, Mexico — all 955 areas, each about 700 metres across. Here is what it says about prices and where the city is greenest, liveliest and easiest to get around.
Modelled estimates, not measurements — and all currently low confidence. Use them to narrow a shortlist.
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Mexico City sits on a high plateau in a mountain-rimmed valley, built over the drained basin of an ancient lake. Its vast footprint mixes a gridded historic core with outward sprawl that climbs surrounding slopes. The built environment ranges from older low-rise housing to newer concrete and glass towers, with quality and upkeep diverging sharply between districts. An extensive metro and bus network anchors daily movement, though roads fill with cars and buses during peak hours. The mild, spring-like climate brings a rainy summer season and cool evenings after sundown. Street life and commerce are robust, yet parks and tree cover remain limited across much of the urban fabric, leaving greenery concentrated and scarce. The gap in physical conditions between the measured areas is wider than in livability overall, suggesting residents choose between distinct neighborhood characters rather than between better and worse infrastructure.
These parts of Mexico City have been measured in full rather than modelled — each has its own page with the five scores, the readings underneath them and photos of the streets.
Across the 21 measured areas HoodEx has mapped in Mexico City, the average score is 6.5 out of 10 — solid. That places Mexico City 21st of the 33 cities measured so far, in line with the 6.6 average across those cities.
The highest-scoring area is Polanco at 7.8/10; the lowest is Tierra Unida at 5.4/10. A gap of 2.4 points across one city is large — in Mexico City the address matters more than the city does. 6 of the 21 areas score 7 or better.
Averaged across Mexico City: green & air 5.8, comfort & safety 6.9, homes & buildings 6.1, shops & services 7.0 and getting around 6.8, each out of 10.
Mexico City's strongest category is shops & services — community life and local services — at 7.0/10, 0.3 above the 6.7 average for that category. The weakest is green & air — greenery and environmental quality — at 5.8/10, in line with the 5.7 average. Those two are the shape of the city: what it gives you everywhere, and what you have to hunt for.
The score that swings most from one Mexico City area to the next is shops & services: 2.4/10 in Tierra Unida, 9.3/10 in Roma — a spread of 6.9 points. In practice that means whether there is a life on your doorstep is the thing your choice of address actually decides here.
By contrast comfort & safety moves by only 2.1 points across the whole city, so it is close to a constant: worth knowing about Mexico City, but not worth paying extra for one street over another.
No single area wins on everything, so it is worth knowing which one leads on the thing you care about. In Mexico City that is most green space: Tierra Unida (8.8/10 green & air), best connected: Polanco (9.5/10 getting around), strongest community life: Roma (9.3/10 shops & services) and best housing stock: Polanco 4ª Sección (8.6/10 homes & buildings).
Open any of them below for the full breakdown — the five category scores, the components underneath them, and what residents have reported.
Every HoodEx neighbourhood is scored from 0 to 10 in five categories. Scores are generated by AI analysis of satellite imagery, street-level imagery, points of interest and public datasets, then blended into a single overall score.
HoodEx has scored 21 neighbourhoods in Mexico City. New areas are added when someone checks a local address.
The average overall score across scored Mexico City neighbourhoods is 6.5/10, blended from our five scoring categories — in line with the 6.6 average across the 33 cities HoodEx has measured.
Polanco currently has the highest overall score in Mexico City at 7.8/10, 2.4 points ahead of the lowest-scoring measured area, Tierra Unida (5.4/10).
Tierra Unida scores highest on green & air in Mexico City at 8.8/10, covering green space, air and water quality and natural features. The city average for green & air is 5.8/10.
Polanco leads on getting around — transit access, road connectivity, walkability and reaching everyday destinations — at 9.5/10, against a Mexico City average of 6.8/10.
Shops & services varies most across Mexico City — a spread of 6.9 points between Tierra Unida (2.4/10) and Roma (9.3/10). That makes whether there is a life on your doorstep the thing your address decides here, while comfort & safety is close to constant citywide (2.1 points).
Every neighbourhood is scored 0–10 in five categories — Green & air, Comfort & safety, Homes & buildings, Shops & services, and Getting around — using AI analysis of satellite imagery, street-level imagery, points of interest and public datasets. The five category scores are blended into a single overall score.
Yes — browsing neighbourhood scores and community insights is free. A detailed report for a new address is paid.
Scores update as new analyses are run and community feedback comes in. Each neighbourhood page shows when it was last updated.