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Around the neighborhood

Choose a neighborhood and look closer at the City’s published outline.

By Kaitlin QuinnPublished Page updated 1 min read
Photo by Troy Spoelma / Unsplash

Where do Portland’s neighborhood boundaries fall?

Choose a neighborhood to see its transit connections, civic districts, and public service boundaries.

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What this can tell you

See how a neighborhood connects to transit, City Council representation, neighborhood support, and service boundaries. Select a place to read those connections below the map.

Sources and limits

Creator

Kaitlin Quinn

Provenance

Built by Kaitlin

Data owner

City of Portland; TriMet for transit layers

Coverage

Portland, Oregon; source-specific coverage may differ

Data date

TriMet route metadata: September 10, 2026. Effective dates for City boundary layers are not established.

Last source check

2026-09-17

Updates

Dated snapshot, reviewed and republished with the atlas. This is not a live service feed.

Limits

Neighborhood identity is not limited to administrative boundaries. Overlapping and shared areas may exist. These are not survey or legal determinations.

Authority

Independent research using agency-published sources

Reuse

Underlying data retain their source terms; no blanket reuse license is granted here.

City of Portland · Neighborhood layer →

A source check is a check of access and metadata. It does not establish that every feature is current.

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The city overview

Start with a Place

Portland / The living atlas

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A place to begin

One City, Many Overlapping Systems

The neighborhood you call home, the route you ride, and the district that represents you do not follow the same lines. Choose a neighborhood to see how they meet.

01 / Find a place

Choose a neighborhood above. Its routes and civic connections appear here, even when those map layers are off.

02 / Follow a connection

Use the layers to compare different parts of city life. Open an original source when you need an exact address or a travel plan.

03 / Ask what’s missing

A service boundary does not tell us how well a service works. That is where the project investigations begin.

About this map · sources, dates & limits

A City Overview, Not a Live Service

A dated snapshot of public geography. Routes are published alignments, not live arrivals or detours. Police and fire areas do not show response times, available units or safety.

Source dates load with the atlas.

What a Neighborhood Means Here

These are the City’s neighborhood-association outlines. Some overlap; some places have no association boundary. Your own sense of neighborhood can be different.

City neighborhood directory ↗
Neighborhood district offices ↗

Go to the Original Source

TriMet route data ↗
PortlandMaps: look up an address ↗
City Council districts ↗
Porch sources and methods →

Place summaries describe geographic overlaps, not address-level eligibility. Route proximity does not establish a nearby stop or a useful trip.

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