Creston-Kenilworth, Portland, Oregon

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.

Creston-Kenilworth
Neighborhood
Location in Portland
Coordinates: 45°29′36″N 122°37′22″WPDF map
CountryUnited States
StateOregon
CityPortland
Government
  AssociationCreston-Kenilworth Neighborhood Association
  CoalitionSoutheast Uplift Neighborhood Program
Area
  Total0.80 sq mi (2.08 km2)
Population
 (2000)[1]
  Total8,234
  Density10,000/sq mi (4,000/km2)
Housing
  No. of households3514
  Occupancy rate95% occupied
  Owner-occupied1330 households (38%)
  Renting2184 households (62%)
  Avg. household size2.34 persons

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]

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