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Renting an Apartment in Northeast Philadelphia
What You Should Know
Northeast Philadelphia ("the Northeast") is a section of the city of
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. According to the 2000 Census, the Northeast has a
sizable percentage of the city's 1.5 million people — a population of between
300,000 and 450,000, depending on how the area is defined. Beginning in the
1980's, many of the Northeast's middle class children graduated college and
settled in suburbs, especially nearby Bucks County. With this emigration of
older populations, a new influx of Latinos have settled along the southern edges
of the Northeast, while African Americans and Asian immigrants have purchased
homes in this once almost exclusively white area of the city. The neighborhoods
that make up Northeast Philadelphia include Fox Chase, Lawncrest, Rhawnhurst,
Tacony, Frankford, Mayfair, Bustleton, Torresdale, Parkwood, Somerton, Burholme,
Ryers, Holmesburg, and Crestmont Farms. It is sometimes said to include the
neighborhoods of Bridesburg, Port Richmond, and Fishtown, as well.