Communities
Cleveland is divided by the Cuyahoga River, and city residents are either East Siders or West Siders.
West Side neighborhoods include:
- Brooklyn Center, home to numerous historic homes;
- Clark-Fulton, an old eastern European neighborhood now home to the mammoth MetroHealth Medical center and much of the city’s Hispanic population;
- Detroit Shoreway, middle-income neighborhood on the rebound after population loss in the 1960s and ‘70s;
- Cuddell, a former blue-collar neighborhood with sing-family homes in the $50,000 bracket as well as a rehab effort of old multi-family buildings;
- Edgewater is an eclectic, upscale neighborhood with diverse housing and unique retail shops;
- Kamm’s Corners, situated on the city’s far west side, this neighborhood has housing ranging from very affordable to upscale, including many structures inspired by the Arts and Crafts Movement;
- Jefferson, which has upscale Tudor style houses and very modest brick houses on tree-lined streets;
- Ohio City, adjacent to Downtown, this distinctive neighborhood has many affordable homes and a castle, the former estate of businessman Hannes Tiedermann;
- Old Brooklyn, this desirable neighborhood is home to the city’s highest-valued housing and considerable new development;
- Paritas-Longmead is a relatively new residential neighborhood with ongoing new construction and rehab of housing, much of which dates to the 1960s;
- West Boulevard, a very stable neighborhood with housing stock dating back to the first half of the last century;
- And Industrial Valley, Slavic Village and Tremont, though they are also considered to be on the city’s South Side.
East Side neighborhoods include:
- Buckeye-Shaker Square, which has much of the city’s apartment opportunities, three distinct shopping areas and many small working class homes;
- Central, which is located east of Downtown and flush with public housing;
- Collinwood, located on Lake Erie, this neighborhood has everything from high rise apartments on the lakefront to modest sing-family homes dating to pre-WW II;
- Corlett, housing is predominantly small single-family homes and what are known as “Cleveland Doubles” two-story, two-family homes, many with two front porches;
- Euclid-Green, which developed in two spurts, the 1920 and the 1950s-‘60s giving the neighborhood a suburban feel;
- Fairfax, almost exclusively residential, this middle class neighborhood is also home to the world-famous Cleveland Clinic;
- Forest Hill, which is filled with large older homes and numerous small apartment buildings;
- Glenville, this upscale, lakefront neighborhood has some the city’s grandest older homes as well as significant new single-family development;
- Goodrich-Kirtland, an older neighborhood with mixed uses, but featuring very affordable housing and former manufacturing buildings converted to artist lofts/studios;
- Hough, which has a mix of tired older housing stock being rehabilitated and some new development of upscale homes;
- Kinsman, this former manufacturing center has much of the city’s public and subsidized housing;
- Lee-Harvard Seville-Miles, which is located in the southeast corner of the city and filled with 1940-‘50s vintage single-family housing;
- Mt. Pleasant, the city’s most heavily-populated neighborhoods with turn-of-the-century housing;
- St. Clair-Superior, which has a diverse population – from Asian to Slovenian – and narrow streets lined with sing-family, wood homes;
- Union-Miles Park, which is an older neighborhood where its housing stock is being rehabbed;
- University Circle-Little Italy, home to much of Cleveland’s cultural life and many older, stately homes;
- And Woodland Hills, which has diverse housing options including many wood-framed Cleveland Doubles.