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 So what does ice cream have to do with Portland neighborhoods? My husband loves ice cream and just about any flavor will do. He has a difficult time deciding which flavor will suit him on a given day and he will change his mind a couple times before making his final pick. It struck me that Portland neighborhoods are like my husband trying to decide on his daily ice cream flavor. Everyone of them offers a new taste sensation. That isn't to say that you shouldn't pick a favorite. You have lots to sample from and it may mean changing your mind a couple of times.
Before you began to locate your neighborhood, you may want to read the Lay of the Land section on this web site. It will give you a better feeling for the geography of these neighborhoods. Also you may want to read the Portland Neighborhoods page. Some of the information located on the Portland Neighborhoods page is also presented here, this page adds some new information and makes it faster to explore neighborhoods.
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Neighborhood
Map
View a Portland Neighborhood Map
in PDF format.
The Physical Size
of Portland
The City of Portland
is 134 square miles.
Others Cities in
square miles:
Austin - 252
Chicago -227
Denver - 153
Los Angles - 469
Seattle - 84
Voting Results
2000 General
Election
Pick your neighborhood
by voting preferences based on the 2000 Presidential Election.
STEPS:
1) Go to the Precinct
Overview Map and locate the precinct.
2) Go to the Precinct Map to verify that you have the correct precinct.
3) View the 2000 President Abstract file.
(rich text format -rtf).
Oregon Elections
Interested in viewing additional voting information visit
Oregon Elections Division Secretary of State.
Portland Facts
Altitude
Highest - 1073 feet; Lowest - sea level
Average Daily Temp
January - 39.6° F
July - 68.2° F
Churches
Protestant - 450
Roman Catholic - 48 Jewish - 9
Buddhist - 6
Other - 190
City-owned Parks
200
(over 9,400 acres)
Per Capita Personal Income in 2000
$31,620
Median Age in 2000
35.2 years
Sex Offenders
Supervision
Multnomah County
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 The Office of Neighborhood Involvement (ONI) is the web site to obtain information about Portland neighborhoods. It has hyperlinks to all the individual neighborhoods data, calendars, map, and city information. This site has been improved during 2001and is now usable but still difficult to navigate. You have to visit too many pages in order to obtain information about a particular neighborhood.
The Office of Neighborhood Involvement site has demographic data from the 1990 census. The basic demographic data was upgraded in 1996 by the Advanced Geographic Information Systems class taught at Portland State University. Besides the ONI website, you can view the 1996 updated demographics at the Multnomah County website. 2000 census data will not be completely available by block groups (a sub-set of census tracts) until winter/spring 2002. This data is necessary to create demographic profiles for specific neighborhoods. ONI will attempt to work with student interns again to complete this valuable project.
Nomenclature Deciphering the difference between official neighborhood names as maintained by the Office of Neighborhood Involvement (ONI) and what Portlanders call a neighborhood can be a problem. For example, most Portlanders call the official ONI neighborhood of Southwest Hills by the two older historical names: Council Crest and Portland Heights.
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 The Oregon Historical Society and Multnomah County Library have teamed up to launch a Web site called CityViews. You can locate a Portland neighborhood using a base map of the city, then zoom in for more information. It offers history tours for 20 plus neighborhoods. Although limited in the number of neighborhoods covered, CityViews has solid basic information about Portland neighborhoods and it is easy to navigate.
CascadeLink is another online source for neighborhoods. CascadeLink is designed to be a place for getting and sharing information about neighborhoods and neighborhood activities. CascadeLink also covers Clark, Clackamas, and Washington county neighborhoods. But only a few of the neighborhoods create a page or update the information on a periodic basis. The Insiders Guide gives a local perspective on a few Portland neighborhoods as well as the local real estate market. The Insider Guide is one of the few sites that actually has some well-written content about Portland neighborhoods as most websites simply redirect you to the ONI or CascadeLink sites.
US Census Bureau The US Census Bureau also provides demographic data of the Portland Metropolitan (Clackamas, Multnomah, and Washington counties) area.
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 Livable Oregon is a non-profit charitable organization of concerned citizens, businesses and public officials who believe that through appropriate investment and management, Oregon's economy can grow without jeopardizing the unique qualities of its communities and countryside.
Each year, Livable Oregon presents the annual Governor's Livability Awards recognizing exemplary development projects that reinforce Oregon's quality of life and support its transportation and land use goals. The awards are intended to encourage quality development in Oregon. They are presented in partnership with the Governor's Office. Although most of the awards are for commercial buildings, a few are residence.
You may want to bookmark the Governor Livability site if you interested in architectural, design, community livability, and issues affecting communities. Visit their links section.
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We have calculated the "Average Home Selling Price" for the neighborhoods we have profiled. Please bear in mind that neighborhood values are, at best, good estimates. We extract the data from the Regional Multiple Listing System (RMLS) files, tweak the data, and then do the calculations.
The problem has to do with the boundaries; historical versus neighborhood associations. Some real estate firms (each firm inputs the data for their particular listing, transaction) use the historical boundaries and some use the current neighborhood associations' boundary. We use the boundaries published by the Office of Neighborhood Involvement (ONI) since they are consistent.
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