[10] Neighborhoods

Downtown Portland has its own set of "neighborhoods" or districts. Look at this downtown map of Portland, identifying its 8 seperate districts. The first two districts have a more detailed description.

- Northwest & Nob Hill
Portland's trendiest shopping is on ten blocks of Northwest 23rd Avenue between Burnside and NW Northrup streets. Some of the Portland's best dining spots are located here. 23rd is a browsers paradise with numerous shops ranging from clothing boutiques to book stores. Twenty-third is the place to go if you want to walk and people-watch and browse through a lot of shops. The Northwest is a well known entertainment center, too.

- Pearl District
This district is transitioning from an industrial warehousing area to one of the most desirable locations in the city. Renovations and adaptive use of historical and other structures have led to loft housing, row houses, condos, new restaurants, art and ceramic galleries, and a burst of new retail activity. A flurry of important new urban creative-commerce entrepreneurs, ranging from small internet firms to world-class advertising and multi-media companies, are staking out territory here.

- Lloyd District
- Old Town & Chinatown
- Downtown
- University District
- Central Eastside
- South Waterfront District & Johns Landing

Here is a Portland Neighborhood Map (Portland and the cities/neighborhoods surrounding it).

This is an alternative look to Portland neighborhoods.



Some general Portland Neighborhood info:

Downtown Portland
(Info above)

South Waterfront
This area is being redeveloped and will be the largest and most expensive redevelopment effort in Portland history which plans on transforming an abandoned industrial site along the Willamette River south of downtown into a high-rise neighborhood as dense as parts of Manhattan. Eventually, some 20 high-rise buildings will be built on the site. This includes medical offices and labs for Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU).

Southwest Portland
Bridlemile - Corbett-Terwilliger-Lair Hill - Hillsdale - Multnomah - Sylvan-Highlands

Residents in the area live here for the schools, hilly terrain, and the "safe neighborhoods" and parks. The area of Southwest Portland has many city attractions such as the International Rose Test Garden, Japanese Gardens, Hoyt Arboretum, Children's Museum, and Oregon Zoo.

West Hills
Arlington Heights - Council Crest - Forest Park - Hillside - Portland Heights

The West Hills are littered with historic homes and even a couple of castles. Common styles found in the hills include English Cottage, Foursquare, Colonial, Tudor, and Arts & Crafts. Most West Hills homes were built in the early part of the 20th Century. This area is home to many doctors, lawyers, VPs, managers, and small business owners.

Southeast Portland
Eastmoreland - Hosford-Abernethy - Mt. Tabor - Sellwood-Moreland - Sunnyside

This area has many industrial plants that provide thousands of jobs for Portlanders. The Hawthorne and nearby Belmont districts are filled with single-family homes and apartment buildings. Bakeries, coffeehouses, boutiques, music and bookstores, micro-pubs, and restaurants line the two streets. Hawthorne Boulevard supports a thriving district that is full of activity. Here, high-density housing meshes with retail activity, creating one of the city's more interesting shopping areas -- pedestrian friendly, lined with gift stores, period clothing shops, eateries, and espresso shops.

North Portland
Boise - Piedmont - University Park
2005 the average price of a home is $208,800.

Northeast Portland
Alameda - Beaumont-Wilshire - Concordia - Grant Park - Irvington - Laurelhurst

Optimal for urban living, checking out historic homes, seeing tree-lined streets, enjoying city parks and street shopping (instead of malls).
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Portland has 94 formally recognized neighborhoods, which doesn't include the outlying areas, ranging from little Fairfield Village to major cities such as Vancouver, Washington, which are considered part of the greater metropolitan area.

Want to get interactive? Check out the Portland Neighborhood map, in which you can click on a neighborhood and find some census data pertaining to that neighborhood.

You can also check out Individual Neighborhood Maps , which are very detailed.

Below are some graphs revealing social status indicators within Portland that give an idea of how the physical structure of the city might look like.











Sources
Moving to Portland
Portland Neighborhoods