Which Philly neighborhood is richer? (Philadelphia, Washington: condos, townhome, neighborhoods)

[UrbanQuest]

Society Hill or Rittenhouse Square?

[RightonWalnut]

Rittenhouse

[john_starks]

yeah, gotta be rittenhouse

society hill is stagnant - old money in overpriced homes with a lot of nothing

and the abused horses trotting by causing the horrid stench in the summer

[Clark Park]

I would also say Rittenhouse. Some of the condos there go for millions $$$.

There are parts of Chestnut Hill that are super pricy though.

[Marius Pontmercy]

Rittenhouse is where the money goes. There's nothing to do in Society Hill besides hole up in your restored 18th century townhome and smell your own farts.

[Max America]

Society Hill (19106) has the highest average household income in the city followed by Chestnut Hill.

http://www.pewtrusts.org/uploadedFil...mographics.pdf

[FrankInPhilly]

Originally Posted by Clark Park

I would also say Rittenhouse. Some of the condos there go for millions $$$.

There are parts of Chestnut Hill that are super pricy though.

http://www.pewtrusts.org/uploadedFil...mographics.pdf All of it's interesting, but the income #s are on page 12 (Society Hill, Chestnut Hill, Rittenhouse are 1, 2, 3/4). These are average, not median, incomes.

[UrbanQuest]

Originally Posted by Max America

Society Hill (19106) has the highest average household income in the city followed by Chestnut Hill.

http://www.pewtrusts.org/uploadedFil...mographics.pdf

Thanks for the info. These numbers seem to provide
numbers that don't reflect on exact neighborhood
boundaries. Definitely so for Rittenhouse Square.

[rotodome]

Compiling demographic info for exact neighborhood boundaries for Center City neighborhoods that are somewhat loosely defined, and really only a really few blocks wide I think gets extremely nit-picky.


Also:
Rittenhouse is great and all, but the hate for Society Hill on this thread is a little weird!
It's one of the greatest and most famous success stories of urban renewal in the US, and is always cited in planning textbooks as such. It's really only been a fancy neighborhood for 40 years or so, where Rittenhouse has basically been fancy more-or-less since that area was originally developed.

I think Society Hill has always been pretty well located, in terms of having "things to do", what with having South Street on one edge, all the historical stuff and Old City on the other edge. South Street has certainly become less of "the place to go" in Philly in recent years, but it's still got stuff going on, and I think will bounce back. And Penn's Landing is a frustrating continual flop, but I think ultimately has a LOT more potential than the narrow, post-industrial lower Schuylkill that borders Rittenhouse.
Society Hill has tons of accessible quality green space with Washington Square (whichI think I actually prefer to Rittenhouse) and Independence National park, as well as all the pocket parks and hidden alleys in the Greenway system (which I personally think is one of the coolest things in Center City). Plus it has a great mix of renovated historical houses, alongside some very good mid century modernist houses, which was the whole point of the redevelopment there. In a lot of ways it's much more interesting than Rittenhouse. I guess the increased recent infiltration of students into western Center City has made Rittenhouse a younger neighborhood, while Society Hill residents are typically older. Lots of well-to-do familes and retirees. So the pace is a little slower on the neighborhood streets. But it's still a first-rate neighborhood with great amenities. And it wouldn't surprise me at all if the median incomes there were higher.

Totally subjective, but if the magical real-estate fairy was going to gift me with any house in Center City, I'm pretty sure I'd pick one in Society Hill over Rittenhouse.

[maf763]

It's kind of pathetic when people can't state a preference without denigrating that which they didn't choose.