Creston-Kenilworth | |
Settlement Type: | Neighborhood |
Map Alt: | Creston-Kenilworth neighborhood boundaries |
Coordinates: | 45.4933°N -122.6226°W |
Coordinates Footnotes: | PDF map |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | United States |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Name1: | Oregon |
Subdivision Type2: | City |
Subdivision Name2: | Portland |
Leader Title1: | Association |
Leader Title2: | Coalition |
Unit Pref: | US |
Area Total Km2: | 2.08 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population Total: | 8234 |
Population As Of: | 2000 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Population Density Sq Mi: | auto |
Demographics Type1: | Housing |
Demographics1 Title1: | No. of households |
Demographics1 Info1: | 3514 |
Demographics1 Title2: | Occupancy rate |
Demographics1 Info2: | 95% occupied |
Demographics1 Info3: | 1330 households (38%) |
Demographics1 Title4: | Renting |
Demographics1 Info4: | 2184 households (62%) |
Demographics1 Title5: | Avg. household size |
Demographics1 Info5: | 2.34 persons |
Creston-Kenilworth is a neighborhood in the Southeast section of Portland, Oregon, lying between SE 26th Ave. on the west and SE Foster Rd. (to SE 61st Ave.) on the east, and between SE Powell Blvd. on the north and SE Holgate Blvd. on the south. It is adjacent to the neighborhoods of Brooklyn to the west, Hosford-Abernethy, and Richmond to the north, Foster-Powell and Mt. Scott-Arleta to the east, and Reed and Woodstock to the south.
Parks include Creston Park (1920) and Kenilworth Park (1909).
According to Portland Parks & Recreation, the Kenilworth neighborhood was platted in 1889 and is "named after Sir Walter Scott's 1821 novel Kenilworth, a romantic novel set in Elizabethan England. Many of the streets in the neighborhood took their names from this novel and other novels by Scott."[2]