Hipsters everywhere at the H Street Festival. Photo by tedeytan

Travel & Leisure may not think D.C. is very good for hipsters, but Forbes would like to say differently. Yesterday the magazine published its “America’s Hippest Hipster Neighborhoods,” and H Street came out in sixth place:

“Politico” hipsters flock to this D.C. hood, separated from the rest of the city by the H Street Bridge. Revitalization efforts ramped up in the area, also known as the Atlas District, in the mid 2000s and today the enclave is known for nightlife that includes dance clubs, rock venues, burlesque shows and restaurants like Sticky Rice that offer patrons a game speed bingo alongside their meals. The H Street Festival and the nearby food truck extravaganza Truckeroo Festival help add to the hipness.

We were beat out by Silver Lake in Los Angeles, San Francisco’s Mission District, Brooklyn’s Williamsburg, Chicago’s Wicker Park, and Portland’s Pearl District.

So how exactly did the magazine measure hipster hipness? By assessing walkability, coffee shops per capita, availability of food trucks, farmers’ markets, locally owned bars and restaurants, the size of the artistic community, and how often the words associated with hipness come up when speaking of the neighborhood.

Of course, this is at best an imperfect measure. What of the fixed gear to geared bike ratio? And the PBR quotient? We probably gained some points with the streetcar bonus, but lost them with the bridge-and-tunnel crowd variable. And that they didn’t even add in a little boost for tweed rides means this list simply isn’t to be trusted.