About the neighborhood
95 sections of the large Pacific Northwest city
Portland, Oregon is divided into six sections: North Portland, Northeast Portland, Northwest Portland, South Portland, Southeast Portland, and Southwest Portland. There are 95 officially recognized neighborhoods, each of which is represented by a volunteer-based neighborhood association. No neighborhood associations overlap the Willamette River, but a few overlap the addressing sextants. For example, most addresses in the South Portland Neighborhood Association are South, but a portion of the neighborhood is west of SW View Point Terrace where addresses have a SW prefix. Similarly the Buckman Neighborhood Association spans both NE and SE Portland.
Neighborhood associations serve as the liaison between residents and the city government, as coordinated by the city's Office of Community & Civic Life, which was created in 1974 and known as the Office of Neighborhood Involvement until July 2018. The city subsequently provides funding to this "network of neighborhoods" through district coalitions, which are groupings of neighborhood associations. A few areas of Portland are "unclaimed" by any of the 95 neighborhood associations in Portland.
Neighborhoods
Each neighborhood association defines its own boundaries, which may include areas outside of Portland city limits and (if mutually agreed) areas that overlap with other neighborhoods. Neighborhoods may span boundaries between the six sections (North Portland, Northeast Portland, Northwest Portland, South Portland, Southeast Portland, and Southwest Portland) of the city as well. The segmentation adopted here is based on Office of Community & Civic Life's district coalition model, under which each neighborhood is part of at most one coalition (though some neighborhoods are not included in any).
Other areas and communities
Alberta Arts District, an art, retail, and restaurant area in the King, Vernon, and Concordia neighborhoods
Albina, a historical city which was consolidated into Portland in 1891
The Belmont Area, a retail and residential area in the Buckman, Sunnyside, and Mt. Tabor neighborhoods
Dunthorpe, an affluent unincorporated enclave just beyond the city limits, north of Lake Oswego
Unincorporated areas near Portland proper in Washington County (unincorporated neighborhoods expanding into Washington County) Bethany
Cedar Hills
Cedar Mill
Garden Home
Metzger
Oak Hills
Raleigh Hills
Rock Creek
West Haven-Sylvan
West Slope
East Portland, a historical city which was consolidated into Portland in 1891, not to be confused with the area of the same name that extends roughly east of I-205 to Portland's eastern boundary
East Portland, the area of Portland generally east of I-205, where approximately one quarter of residents reside, but which has historically not received adequate city services.
The Hawthorne District, a retail, restaurant, and cultural district running through the Buckman, Hosford-Abernethy, Sunnyside, Richmond, and Mt. Tabor neighborhoods
Maywood Park, a Northeast neighborhood incorporated as a separate city that is now completely surrounded by the city of Portland
Peacock Lane, a quaint English village in the heart of Sunnyside Neighborhood has been treating the city of Portland to free holiday lighting displays each December since the 1940s
Vanport, a city located in present-day North Portland destroyed by a flood in 1948
References
External links
Oregon portal
Office of Community & Civic Life
PortlandNeighborhood.com - includes neighborhood guides and a clickable map
PortlandMaps.com - city's public GIS database, including demographic and other statistics on the neighborhoods, as well as official boundaries
Study of Portland Neighborhood Associations: Neighborhood Association Survey Results (League of Women Voters of Portland, June 2006)
Encyclopedic content adapted from the Wikipedia article on Mississippi, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
