Duluth Area Zip Codes and Poverty Rates (Hermantown, Proctor: section 8, apartments)

[tvdxer]

(Zip Code/Percentage below Poverty Line/Percentage below 50% of Poverty Line/Hood Names)

55802 50.1 21.4 (Downtown / Park Point)
55803 9.2 4.1 (Fredenberg/Woodland/Hunter's Park)
55804 4.2 2.7 (Lakeside/Lester Park)
55805 42.6 23.3 (East Hillside)
55806 35.5 20.3 (Lincoln Park/CHS)
55807 18.5 11.6 (West Duluth)
55808 16.2 8.6 (Riverside/Gary/New Duluth)
55810 7.9 2.8 (Proctor/Bayview/Midway Tsp/W Hermantown)
55811 17.5 7.4 (Pied/Hmtn/D Hts/Kenwood/Tsps)
55812 33.1 14.9 (Congdon Pk / UMD)

What do you make of this?

[knke0204]

I lived in 55805 for two years and it was pretty evident that the families living there weren't so well off.

I was a young guy so I didn't really care.

[tvdxer]

I wonder if the student population of 55805 skews figures somewhat too.

However, few students live in 55806. The neighborhoods covered by that zip code (Central Hillside & Lincoln Park) are notoriously poor. Interesting they lump Duluth's two most famously impoverished neighborhoods into a single zip code.

[karen.pagenkopf.teig]

I see the Lakeside/Lester Park numbers but I will tell you, while I am not in poverty...I am far from rich. This is where my family moved before I was born. I was an East Cake Eater but people did not know I was nowhere's near rich.

[Toronto416]

It's changing a lot. For example, in 1962, nobody wanted to live on Park Point because it was nothing besides tiny old houses and in many ways was its own small towns. Now it's second home to multimillionaires from Twin Cities and Chicagoland. Downtown has seen an abrupt closing of single-room hotel housing (YWCA, Carter/Gardener Hotel, Kozy Apartments) and added some very overpriced condos that are cheaper even in Chicago's Loop. Woodland has probably seen the most devastating results of elderly couples unable to sell their homes - the conversion of single family homes into student houses or worse - 'group homes' which have no requirement to notify just what kind of group homes these are...many of the residents have serious criminal histories and IMO questionable 'disabilities' - looks to me they've found the right doctor/lawyer and are yanking everyone's chain (TBI or traumatic brain injury has such a vague definition that literally anyone could have it). Unfortunately, after all the new housing and amenities are complete at the former Woodland Middle School site, I guarantee all those houses ripped apart by the college kids will be bought by Center City Housing and will be all Section 8 rentals. Woodland will go from one of the most desirable areas two decades ago to one of the least. Out west is a toss up because like most Great Lakes cities, it's all about a view of the lake. The hillside areas in the Piedmont area will always be desirable, but other areas really have to find something to capitalize on what they've got going that makes them stand out. We're starting to see this with the Heritage Sports Center, the new middle school, etc...

[AbqTeacher]

As a resident of 55805, I can pretty much see that. Mostly it's just a student ghetto- just lots of students with little money to spare. The whole area's mostly harmless, just kinda run down. It is fun to listen to the drunk undergrads walking down the street on a Friday night, though...

[knke0204]

I lived right down in 55805, East Hillside. On 2nd street. It wasn' a bad neighborhood in terms of crime. According to CrimeMapping.com - National Map (you have to zoom waay in) it looks pretty bad. I don't really remember much of anything happening. It was run-down and loud from occasional parties, but other than that, pretty tame. I guess crime here is discrete.