The City and County of Denver, capital of the U.S. state of Colorado, has 78 official neighborhoods used for planning and administration.[1] The system of neighborhood boundaries and names dates to 1970 when city planners divided the city into 73 groups of one to four census tracts, called "statistical neighborhoods," most of which are unchanged since then.[2]
Unlike some other cities, such as Chicago, Denver does not have official larger area designations. Colloquially, names such as Northside and Westside are still in use, but not well-known.[3][4] Since 2016, Community planners have used a set of 19 planning areas, all of which are groups of statistical neighborhoods, as part of the Area Planning process.[5][6]
- ^ City and County of Denver, Community Planning and Development. "Denver Open Data Catalog: Statistical Neighborhoods". DenverGov.org.
- ^ Beaty, Kevin. "How Denver's neighborhoods got their shapes". Denverite. Denverit. Retrieved 31 July 2024.
- ^ Hunt, Rebbecca. "Northside History: A Tale of Two Neighborhoods". The Denver NorthStar. Colorado Community Media. Retrieved 31 July 2024.
- ^ Mead & Hunt. "Nuestras Historias: Mexican American/Chicano/Latino Histories in Denver An Historic Context" (PDF). City and County of Denver. City and County of Denver. pp. 64, 70. Retrieved 31 July 2024.
- ^ "Neighborhood Planning". City and County of Denver. City and County of Denver. Retrieved 31 July 2024.
- ^ "Neighborhood Planning Initiative Strategic Plan" (PDF). City and County of Denver. City and County of Denver. p. 10. Retrieved 31 July 2024.
Denver's 78 neighborhood statistical areas have been grouped together into 19 NPI planning areas. The purpose of grouping neighborhoods together is to increase the geographic coverage of each NPI plan and reduce the total number of plans required to achieve 100 percent coverage of the city. These groupings were first defined in 2016…