Creston-Kenilworth, Portland, Oregon

Creston-Kenilworth
Neighborhood
Location in Portland
Coordinates: 45°29′36″N 122°37′22″WPDF map
Country	United States
State	Oregon
City	Portland
Government
• Association	Creston-Kenilworth Neighborhood Association
• Coalition	Southeast Uplift Neighborhood Program
Area
• Total	0.80 sq mi (2.08 km^2)
Population  (2000)[1]
• Total	8,234
• Density	10,000/sq mi (4,000/km^2)
Housing [1]
• No. of households	3514
• Occupancy rate	95% occupied
• Owner-occupied	1330 households (38%)
• Renting	2184 households (62%)
• Avg. household size	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]

References

1. Demographics (2000)
2. "Kenilworth Park".

External links

• Media related to Creston-Kenilworth, Portland, Oregon at Wikimedia Commons
• Guide to Creston-Kenilworth Neighborhood (PortlandNeighborhood.com)
• Creston-Kenilworth Street Tree Inventory Report