West Philadelphia drew national attention in 1978 and 1985 for violent clashes between police and an Afro-centric, back-to-nature group called MOVE. This process accelerated with the full extension of the Market-Frankford line in 1907, which boosted settlement, including that of immigrant and Black laborers living close to the line. Since the mid-nineteenth century, West Philadelphia's fortunes have risen and fallen with shifts in transportation and demographics. Small communities began to spring up to support these businesses, like Hamiltonville in 1804. Everything from printers and bakeries to slaughterhouses and mirror manufacturers dotted this slice of the landscape. In recent years, parts of West Philadelphia have undergone "Penntrification," a term that reflects the University of Pennsylvania's role in gentrification of the neighborhood; including a campaign to rename part of the area University City (the designation now appears on maps as well as public street signs and government listings). View All Data Tools and Apps Population by Neighborhood in Philadelphia There are 158 neighborhoods that are fully or partially contained within Philadelphia (144 fully and 14 partially). The educational status of the citys residents who are 18 and older. The Orlons, who recorded the hit song 'South Street,' formed at Overbrook High School in West Philadelphia in the 1950s. The Woodlands mansion and cemetery continue to operate today. They were also necessary to create a more walkable environment and additional housing for a growing student body. Every day, thousands of vehicles travel this route, which is one of the major commuter routes into and out of Philadelphia from Delaware and Chester Counties. 99-146. Miller, Rogerand Joseph Siry. In 2008, the area around the Please Touch Museum, Philadelphia Zoo, and the Mann Music Center was designated the Centennial District: an area to be revitalized by the country's 250th birthday in 2026. (Author information current at time of publication.). The map below highlights areas of . This article is about the present-day area. 47, No. 2 (April 1980), pp. Route 36 terminates in Southwest Philadelphia at Island Avenue west and 73rd Street, near the Philadelphia International Airport. The new bridge spurred growth, prompting a network of industries, including stockyards, lumber mills, slaughterhouses, coal yards, foundries, and glass factories to serve the city across the river. It remained to be seen whether the ascendancy of the eastern section of West Philadelphia, where old industries and worker housing were giving way to new investment, would be enough to buoy the fortunes of the outlying, formerly middle class areas. The topography of West Philadelphia is composed of rolling hills rising slowly from the Schuylkill River toward Cobbs Creek in the west and toward Belmont Plateau in the northwest. The police department made matters worse by becoming the first U.S. law enforcement institution to bomb its own city. 16.5%. In Elegy (for MOVE and Philadelphia), Philadelphia poet and playwright Sonia Sanchez questions the paradoxical nature of a city that seemingly set itself and its people ablaze near Sixty-Second Street and Osage Avenue. These include five of Philadelphia's remaining six streetcar lines. 85.6%. Initial development was divided into block lots and sold in 1852 with the condition that "substantial stone or brick buildings" be erected. The western portion of the neighborhood was once home to some of the most expensive real estate in the country (and much striking Victorian-era architecture remains). Alhough there are no officially defined boundaries, it is generally considered to reach from the western shore of the Schuylkill River, to City Avenue to the northwest, Cobbs Creek to the southwest, and the SEPTA Media/Wawa Line to the south. There are more white people in the northwest areas of the city. Puckett, John L. and Mark Frazier Lloyd. "Match Any Neighborhood" calculates the Match Level of one neighborhood to another using more than 200 characteristics of each neighborhood. West Philadelphia was also the home of American Bandstand, the popular dance show that launched the career of host Dick Clark and turned some local high school students into teen idols. One of the first homes built in West Philadelphia, in an area that was then Blockley Township, was William Hamiltons country estate, the Woodlands. City officials found these species much more tolerant of the urban environment and resistant to disease. of Pa. 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Penn also invested in local public schools, founding the Sadie Alexander School, for pre-K through eighth grade. Commuter trains have helped to shape and define Philadelphia and its region since their introduction in 1832. In 1850, it was destroyed by fire. Jake Blumgart is a reporter for WHYYs PlanPhilly. In contrast, people younger than 25 and those older than 65 earn less, at $35,844 and $33,684, respectively. In the period after World War II, many white residents and industrial jobs left the city for its suburbs, leaving in their wake overwhelmingly black communities with few employment opportunities. The average annual household income in Overbrook Park is $63,686, while the median household income sits at $47,174 per year. Updated annually. Social Explorer was created by a group of New York demographers to provide online access to U.S. socioeconomic data from a variety of sources, including the United States Census. In 1854, the Act of Consolidation was signed, aligning Philadelphias borders with those of Philadelphia County. Multiple business corridors sprouted on Fifty-Second Street and Baltimore, Lancaster, Woodland, and Girard Avenues. [28] Follow Backgrounders on Twitter The most comprehensive, authoritative reference source ever created for the Philadelphia region. The Black population swelled again during World War II, breaking West Philadelphia's racial boundaries by moving south of Market Street and west of Fifty-Ninth Street. Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries. Other settlements followed, including Mantua Village, carved from the holdings of a local landowner, Judge Richard Peters (1743-1828), and laid out in 1809. As African Americans began living in more neighborhoods, the white population began fleeing to the expanding suburbs. The setback of these houses was 25 feet, allowing generous front yards. and the West Virginia border. 2.57. But he abandoned the idea by 1684, two years after his arrival. The Woodlands Cemetery, which is located near the west bank of the Schuylkill River, was originally the estate of Andrew Hamilton who bought the property in 1735 from descendants of Blockley Township's founder, William Warner, who hailed from Brockley, England. It was not until 1805 that the first bridge was constructed spanning the Schuylkill River at what is now Market Street. A gunfight ensued and in the end, police officer James Ramp was dead and nine MOVE members, including Delbert Africa, shown here, were arrested. on the 200 block of West Queen Lane, in Philadelphia's . The Philadelphia College of Pharmacy (now USciences) was the nation's first pharmacy college. The Paoli/Thorndale Line serves Overbrook and Wynnefield, and continues to the Main Line communities and Paoli. In West Philadelphia, this incorporated the West Philadelphia and Belmont districts as well as Blockley and Kingsessing Townships into the city. According to the 2010 census, 216,433 people live among the ZIP codes of 19104, 19131, 19139, 19143 and 19151.[1](Map). Scope: population of Philadelphia and Allegheny West. Unlike the omnibuses, the streetcars were on rails that provided faster and more efficient travel. This photograph is from a street festival on Baltimore Avenue in the Cedar Park section of University City. Cultural venues include the Mann Music Center of the Performing Arts and the Bushfire Theater of the Performing Arts on 52nd Street. The device ignited fuel in a generator on the roof, causing a fire that spread through the neighborhood. The search engine finds the neighborhoods that are the optimum fit to the set of criteria you choose. Promise Zones are advertised as entities organized to "leverage federal resources to increase economic activity and opportunity, create jobs, improve education and reduce violent crime. Using interactive maps and data reports, Social Explorer makes available detailed information from the United States Census, beginning with the first census of 1790 and continuing to the present. Age Under 5 Years: 6.6% As a consequence, large swaths of the area became deteriorated and underpopulated, despite a vibrant Black political and cultural scene and, in the twenty-first century, a resurgent higher education and medical cluster. Our nationally-comparable school ratings are covered under US Patent No. It was the first covered bridge in the United States. In the twenty-first century, portions near the University of Pennsylvania, in particular, enjoyed a resurgence. The demographic statistics for this exhibit have been compiled fromSocial Explorerby the staff of theUniversity Archivesof theUniversity of Pennsylvania. The houses in this grouping are primarily three-story Italianate buildings, linked by material, decorative detail, and form. A reinforced, bunkerlike structure built on the roof supported this belief. Streetcars were electrified beginning in the 1890s and accelerated the suburbanization of West Philadelphia. The intersection of 52nd Street and Market Street in West Philadelphia was listed number eight in a 2007 list of the city's top ten recreational drug corners according to an article by Philadelphia Weekly reporter Steve Volk. The demographic statistics for this exhibit have been compiled from Social Explorer by the staff of the University Archives of the University of Pennsylvania. 1 non-Hispanic 2 excluding black and Asian Hispanics. With the exception of Market Street, these streets can be regarded as being "named after" the streets in West Philadelphia, not continuations, as they are cut off by the park. West Philadelphia did not exist until the middle of the nineteenth century. Satterlee Hospital, one of the largest Union Army hospitals of the Civil War, operated from 1862 to 1865; part of its grounds are now the northern section of Clark Park. The then-scion of the family, William Hamilton (1745-1813), established the estates Georgian mansion and laid out. The least populous of the compared neighborhoods has a population of 11,228. After 1880 the larger houses closer to the river and the university, which dated to earlier in the century, began to be carved into smaller units. A few large estates were built during this time as well, most notably the Hamilton familys Woodlands with its iconic Georgian mansion and that of John Bartram (1699-1777), the renowned botanist and Quaker who cultivated extensive gardens along the banks of the Schuylkill. 1944), who was born and raised in West Philadelphia, Penn promised to not repeat the aggressive steps taken in the 1950s and 1960s. The western reaches of West Philadelphia included miles of two-story rowhouses with bay windows above classical columned front porches. During this period, the university adopted the moniker University City for the surrounding neighborhoods. It was purchased by the Woodlands Cemetery Company that year for use as a rural cemetery. West Philadelphia, nicknamed West Philly, is a section of the city of Philadelphia. . By 1840, the tract was only ninety-two acres. Unlike the bucolic landscape of Stanfords park, the University City Science Center was to be located in the densely populated areas just north of the college campuses. For a complete list of the variables and breakdowns of data available, consult the professional version of Social Explorer available from the University of Pennsylvania Libraries and other institutional subscribers. Beginning in the 1990s, the University of Pennsylvania began a process of community engagement to help rebuild the surrounding neighborhoods by providing an unarmed security force in University City and establishing the university-affiliated Sadie Alexander School. The cemetery is open daily to visitors and still allows up to one hundred burials per year; the mansion is open seasonally for tours. During the latter confrontation, police firebombed the group's headquarters, killing 11 people and destroying an entire block of Osage Avenue and Pine Street. What is the population of West Philadelphia? In the latter decades of the twentieth century West Philadelphia kept changing as the white population continued to drain out of the city. The student body continued to grow into the twentieth century and by 1900 the campus had expanded to thirty buildings including dormitories, laboratories, and the Frank Furness-designed library shown at left in this postcard. The second story, projecting, semi-hexagonal bay is incorporated into this design, an element which defines the later rowhouses. The Wynnefield neighborhood is a location frequently used by photographers and organizers of civic events. A pivotal factor in the development of West Philadelphia was the construction of the University of Pennsylvanias campus. Retail districts lined every street where there was a station as well as along Market Street. ofGreaterPhiladelphia. By sending this Report you agree to NeighborhoodScout's, Real Estate in Popular Philadelphia Neighborhoods. The construction of the University City Science Center required the demolition of the residential Black Bottom neighborhood in the 1960s. American Bandstand (1952-89) was a massively popular music television program with strong Philadelphia roots, storied national success, and the power to shape the music industry and society. After years of neighbor complaints regarding the group loudly broadcasting political messages and neglecting its children, MOVE was ordered to leave the property. Zip codes included in this demographic data: 3600 CONSHOHOCKEN AVENUE, Philadelphia, PA. Apartment buildingsunusual in this row-house-dominated citybegan to spring up as well. Neither area proved popular at first, but as the city became more highly developed the lots began to sell. Follow The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia on Instagram Only two MOVE members, Ramona Africa and a child, Birdie Africa, survived the blaze. 2020 (latest available). Lancaster Avenue begins at 34th street near Drexel University; runs westward to the city line at City Avenue; and continues on as U.S. Route 30 to Lancaster, York, Pittsburgh. The earliest developments began in 1850 and the final period of mass construction ended in 1930. This is how city residents have self-reported their race and ethnicity to the US Census. 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% Count White 1 Hispanic 2 Black Asian Mixed 1 Other 1 4.4% 629 2.8% 400 87.3% 12.4k 2.8% 395 2.2% 312 0.5% 71. For more information, please visit the 2021 5-year ACS Comparison Guidance page. Households with a computer, percent, 2017-2021. The community has a fair number of Afro-Caribbean/Caribbean American residents, from the Jamaica, Haiti, Barbados, and other areas of the West Indies, as well as a growing number of African immigrants. Philadelphia police are investigating the fatal shooting of a 44-year-old man in Germantown. The West Indian population is largely concentrated in West Philadelphia, with smaller numbers in the Southwest and Northeast sections. Modeled after the Crystal Palace Great Exhibition in London, the Centennial Exhibition in 1876 exhibited national pride and belief in the importance of education and progress through industrial innovation. University Archives staff members Mary D. McConaghy and Michael L. Ellerson gathered these statistical tables from the professional version of Social Explorerthen edited them for use here. The Philadelphia Social History Project (PSHP) was an interdisciplinary project that played a central role in transforming the study of urban and social history by creating a computerized database to study the effect of industrialization and urbanization on Philadelphias minority populations between 1838 and 1880. Trains influenced suburban development and provide a green alternative to crowded highways systems. Finally the decision was made by Philadelphia Police Commissioner Gregore Sambor to drop an incendiary device on the bunkerlike structure to weaken MOVEs position. The Cynwyd Line is a limited-service express line from Center City to the Bala Cynwyd neighborhood of Lower Merion Township. Total Population by Neighborhood#5 By the 1930s one of the more notable developments in West Philadelphia was the growing number of Black residents and the discriminatory pressures that boxed them into an intensely segregated area stretching south to Market Street, west to Fifty-Ninth Street, and bounded to the north and east by the main line of the Pennsylvania Railroad and the river beyond it. U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts: Philadelphia city, Pennsylvania QuickFacts Table (a) Includes persons reporting only one race (c) Economic Census - Puerto Rico data are not comparable to U.S. Economic Census data (b) Hispanics may be of any race, so also are included in applicable race categories After several high-profile murders of Penn graduate students living in the mixed- race neighborhoods beyond the campus borders, which had lost much of their white population during the 1990s, the university began to again be active in the community. Two other trolley lines originally ran through West Philly. The decline of the neighborhoods after World War II allowed many of these old homes to be preserved by neglect as they were not under the pressures of more central neighborhoods to develop during the urban renewal movement of the mid-twentieth century. But the expansion into surrounding residential neighborhoods embittered many residents. Some of the largest concerns included the metal workings at Job T. Pughs Auger Works, the Otto Gas Engine Manufacturing Company, and the Allison & Sons Car & Tube Works, one of the biggest wagon firms in the nation until its destruction by fire in 1872. American Community Survey, U.S. Bureau of the Census, U.S. Department of Education, 50 state departments of education, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Federal Bureau of Investigation, 18,000+ local law enforcement agencies, Federal Housing Finance Agency, U.S. Geological Service, National Agricultural Statistics Service. By 1950, West Philadelphia had lost a quarter of its Irish-American and 11 percent of its Italian-American population, while the African American population increased by 72 percent. In 1963, four stone eagles were added to the bridge approaches after being salvaged from New York Citys recently demolished Penn Station. Read more about Scout's Demographic Data. CLOSE. Finally, note that Social Explorer has included in its Comprehensive Reports most, but not all, of the variables available for each census year. No representation, guarantee or warranty is made as to the accuracy or completeness of information modified or aggregated for specific neighborhoods and/or zip codes. . On the far side of the Schuylkill, the new housing developments were mostly marketed for the middle and upper classes, whose westward movement was further enabled by the replacement of the omnibus by horse cars in 1858. The law profession in Philadelphia dates back to the days of William Penn. Unlike standardly available Census demographics, NeighborhoodScout uses dozens of custom models to transform 8.5 million raw demographic data elements from government sources into proprietary indices and insights. An alternate definition includes all city land west of the Schuylkill; this would also include Southwest Philadelphia and its neighborhoods. Foreign Born residents have immigrated to the United States from another country and may or may not be naturalized citizens. There are 200,637 residents in West Philadelphia, with a median age of 33.1. Hospitals and academic medical centers have played a central role in the economies of many major U.S. cities, including Philadelphia. Chinese and Koreans, were living in the Oxford Circle/Castor section of lower Northeast Philadelphia (ZIP code 19149), West Philadelphia (19104), and Chinatown (19106 . As African Americans began living in more neighborhoods, the white population began fleeing to the expanding suburbs. Streetcar suburbs blossomed throughout the Philadelphia area in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as streetcar lines radiating from the city's heart allowed people to move further into its fringes. These houses are typical of the early 20th-century developments in West Philadelphia, and are unified by rhythmic patterning of porch and gable features. Immigration has become a major driver of population growth in Philadelphia in recent years, with long-term demographic and economic implications for the city and the region. In first decades of the twenty-first century, parts of West Philadelphia saw a revival. Along with a decrease in crime and a trend toward urban living, most of University City underwent gentrification. Finally, the Route 36 trolley is the longest trolley Green Line service. By the twentieth century many of the wealthy residents who remained in West Philadelphia located away from the Market-Frankford elevated line or the multiplicity of trolley lines, further accelerating the growth of the Main Line suburbs in the process. 8,376,755. Then in the 1870s the University of Pennsylvania left its cramped center city location for West Philadelphia, a move with enormous effect on the development of surrounding neighborhoods, especially during the second half of the twentieth century. West Philadelphia is also served by five of SEPTA's thirteen Regional Rail Lines, which transport thousands of commuters daily to and from Center City and University City, and provide a quick and inexpensive link to the Philadelphia International Airport. Since the dawn of rail transportation, Philadelphia has been home to a number of grand railroad stations. Police bombarded the home with water cannons and teargas, and the sides exchanged gunfire. As the student body swelled in the first half of the nineteenth century, the center city campus was expanded and new buildings were constructed to replace the Presidents House, but the school still needed more space. The area has declined in prominence over the last 50 years, thanks in part to increasing crime and the migration of many middle and upper-class residents to suburbs and other sections of the city. Although this part of the region witnessed small settlements of Lenape and Swedes who established Lutheran churches and log cabins on the west side of the Schuylkill, it was not included in the original plan of Philadelphia. Count. This postindustrial economic vise resulted in the kind of divestment and shadow economy dealings that blighted many other inner city neighborhoods. The El once powered the economic engine of West Philadelphia. Community opposition fell on deaf ears and the city demolished vacant houses, declared Black Bottom a blighted neighborhood, and purchased it through eminent domain. [citation needed], The nation's oldest zoological garden, the Philadelphia Zoo, has exhibitions and educational programs. Over the city's three centuries, it has evolved into a diverse and vital aspect of the city community. Allegheny West. The original bridge, often called the Schuylkill Permanent Bridge, was first built with exposed trusses, but covered a few years after its completion with a wooden roof and walls adorned with sculptures by William Rush. Measuring America's People, Places, and Economy. University Archives staff created the census tract maps found here. Unveiled at the University of Pennsylvanias Moore School of Electrical Engineering in 1946, the world's first nontechnical computer, the ENIAC, consisted of 40 nine-foot-high cabinets containing 18,000 vacuum tubes, 10,000 capacitors, 6,000 switches, and 1,500 relays. The educational institutions and city planners wanted to establish a research park like Stanford Universitys Industrial Park to revitalize the community. The show was produced in Studio B of television station WFIL-TV (Channel 6, now WPVI-TV), located in the station's then-new addition at 4548 Market Street. Suburban Lives. All of this information was taken from the 2010 U.S. Census Bureau. What resulted was a collection of Colonial Revival houses with Arts and Crafts influences, which reflect the sophisticated tastes of post-World War I Philadelphians. Originally, Philadelphia city extended only from the Delaware River west to the Schuylkill River and from Vine Street to South Street. By this standard, about 231,000 Philadelphia householdsor about 529,000 peoplewere cost-burdened in 2018, the last year for which data was available. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. Today many parts of West Philadelphia retain the character of those early streetcar suburbs. Philadelphia After the 1854 Act of Consolidation. After a slow start, the Science Center eventually prospered. The eastern side of West Philadelphia is also known as University City. It is situated directly across the Schuylkill River from Center City .
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