Woodlawn is a neighborhood in the Northeast section of Portland, Oregon

Portland, Oregon

Portland is a city located in the Pacific Northwest, near the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2010 Census, it had a population of 583,776, making it the 29th most populous city in the United States...

. It borders Sunderland

Sunderland, Portland, Oregon

Sunderland is a neighborhood in the Northeast section of Portland, Oregon.The Dignity Village homeless settlement is in Sunderland....

 on the north, Concordia

Concordia, Portland, Oregon

Concordia is a neighborhood in the Northeast section of Portland, Oregon, United States, named after Concordia University, which is located within it. The neighborhood borders are NE 22nd Ave. on the west, NE Columbia Blvd. on the north, and NE 42nd Ave. on the east. On the south, the border is...

 on the east, King

King, Portland, Oregon

King is a neighborhood in the Northeast section of Portland, Oregon. Like many of the surrounding neighborhoods, King has historically had one of the highest proportions of minority ancestry in the city. Census data taken 2010 show that the neighborhood is 53% to 69% white in the six census tracts...

 and Vernon

Vernon, Portland, Oregon

Vernon is a neighborhood in the Northeast section of Portland, Oregon, United States.-External links:*...

 on the south, and Piedmont

Piedmont, Portland, Oregon

Piedmont is a neighborhood in the North and Northeast sections of Portland, Oregon. The Piedmont subdivision was platted in 1889 by Edward Quackenbush and promoted in an early flyer as "The Emerald, Portland's Evergreen Suburb, Devoted Exclusively to Dwellings, A Place of Homes." The original...

 on the west.

Most residents of Woodlawn are members of minority groups; in the 2000 census

United States Census, 2000

The Twenty-second United States Census, known as Census 2000 and conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States on April 1, 2000, to be 281,421,906, an increase of 13.2% over the 248,709,873 persons enumerated during the 1990 Census...

, 43.0% of residents identified themselves as African-American, 35.0% as white

White American

White Americans are people of the United States who are considered or consider themselves White. The United States Census Bureau defines White people as those "having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa...

, 8.5% as Hispanic

Hispanic

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, and 10.1% other categories.

Like other neighborhoods in the NE quadrant of Portland, Woodlawn is undergoing a period of gentrification

Gentrification

Gentrification and urban gentrification refer to the changes that result when wealthier people acquire or rent property in low income and working class communities. Urban gentrification is associated with movement. Consequent to gentrification, the average income increases and average family size...

. For example, on the 12th avenue block between Ainsworth and Holman streets, 15 houses are owner-occupied while 5 are tenant-occupied.

Most homes in Woodlawn are working-class style, small bungalows, unlike the neighboring King and Piedmont neighborhoods.

External links

• GoWoodlawn! Woodlawn Neighborhood Blog
• Guide to Woodlawn Neighborhood (PortlandNeighborhood.com)
• Remembering Woodlawn - Book Review at Portland Tribune