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Unofficial map of the neighborhoods of Philadelphia Philadelphia Planning Analysis sections. The following is a list of neighborhoods, districts and other places located in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. The list is organized by broad geographical sections within the city.
As of the 2010 Census, Philadelphia was ranked as the ninth most racially segregated metro area in the U.S., with many residents living in neighborhoods where 75 percent or more of the population consisted of a single racial group. [4] With renewed growth, neighborhoods convenient to the new employment in the city became attractive.
Puerto Ricans make up the majority of Hispanics inside of the city of Philadelphia and in the Philadelphia metropolitan area as whole, numbering about 300,000 in far southeastern Pennsylvania (around Philadelphia), and neighboring areas in New Jersey and Delaware, making up 60% of Metro Philly's Hispanics and 4.5% of Philadelphia metro as a whole.
As the Philadelphia economy grew stronger, and most discontented people fled to the suburbs, and a new, more popular mayor, Ed Rendell, was elected, the call for secession waned, and the section settled back into life as a part of the city. Today, the Northeast enjoys greater racial balance and relative stability.
Within Kensington, various sub-neighborhoods including Harrowgate, Lower Kensington, West Kensington.Central Kensington, or "the Heart of Kensington" as it is called in a recent Impact Services neighborhood plan, [16] stretches along Kensington Avenue from Tusculum and Somerset Streets to Tioga Street (see Impact Services plan [16] for a more accurate map).
For Asian Americans, in 23 states this group had a homeownership rate higher than the national rate of 62.8% in 2021, the report found. Separately, for white households homeownership rates ranged ...
The USPS does not officially correlate neighborhood names to Philadelphia ZIP Codes, each of which is called "Philadelphia" or "Phila". [1] However, the 19119 ZIP code is almost entirely coterminous with the cultural-consensus boundaries of Mount Airy. [2] [3] [4] There is no official boundary between Mount Airy and Germantown.
As of the census [3] of 2000, there were 27,329 people living in the neighborhood. The racial makeup was 31.15% White, 55.40% African American, 10.33% Asian, and 0.75% from other races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.25% of the population. The median income for a household in the neighborhood was $24,817. [citation needed]