Portland Monthly Neighborhoods of Choice

The April 2006 issue of Portland Monthly is out with their annual Best Places to Live real estate issue.

They select the top 10 neighborhoods, plus 5 hot suburban areas as their most livable locales. It is heavily weighted by the City of Portland’s annual Service Efforts & Accomplishments survey, which I covered in January.

Neighborhood winners were basically selected by residents’ highest satisfaction of physical condition of housing, on-street parking, pedestrian safety, congestion, walking distance to public transportation, access to shopping and services, nighttime safety, and availability of parks or open spaces.

Their results for top livable neighborhoods in Portland:

• Eastmoreland/Ardenwald
• Alameda
• Irvington
• Bridlemile
• Laurelhurst
• Hillsdale
• Grant Park
• Hillside/Arlington Heights
• Collins View/South Burlingame
• Forest Park/NW Heights/Sylvan

And, the top suburban neighborhoods for livability:

• Camas (WA)
• Canby
• Newberg
• Tualatin
• Lake Oswego

Portland Monthly also publishes a section called Neighborhoods By The Numbers, a nice summary of the neighborhoods’ and suburbs’ real estate values, education ratings, population, crime, parks, commute times, services, and other demographics.

Portland Monthly is on newsstands now, but does not publish much of their content online. Please contact me directly to get a copy of the article and neighborhood report cards.

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