Cedarbrook is a neighborhood located in the Northwest section of the City of
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The Ivy Hill neighborhood comprises roughly the northwestern half of Cedarbrook.
Ivy Hill Cemetery (established 1867) forms the geographic heart of the neighborhood. (The neighborhood most likely takes its name from the cemetery
ather than vice versa as the area was woods and farmland when the cemetery was established.) Ivy Hill Road is sometimes mistakenly restyled as "Ivyhill Road"—most notably on its own newest street signs.
Geography
Boundaries
The boundaries of Philadelphia neighborhoods are often not official or precise. However, Cedarbrook has four precise boundaries that make it almost precisely rectangular. These are:
*
Cheltenham Avenue
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to the northeast (a county line and city limit, beyond which lies
Cheltenham Township
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);
* Ivy Hill Road to the northwest (a county line and city limit, beyond which lies
Wyndmoor,
Springfield Township,
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); and
* Stenton Avenue to the southwest (a non-official intra-Philadelphia boundary, but nevertheless unequivocally dividing Cedarbrook from
East Mount Airy).
* Washington Lane to the southeast (beyond which lies
West Oak Lane
West Oak Lane is a neighborhood in Northwest Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. The neighborhood was developed primarily between the early 1920s and late 1930s, with the areas near to Cedarbrook constructed after World War II. At the nor ...
).
ZIP code
The 19150
ZIP code corresponds almost entirely with the Cedarbrook neighborhood.
Demographics
According to the 2000 US Census, the neighborhood has a total population of 25,274. The median household income is $42,342; the median family income is $49,508. The racial makeup of the neighborhood was 2.2% White, 95.3% Black or African-American, 0.2% Alaskan or Native American, 0.0% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, and 1.8% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race accounted for 1.1% of the population. Approximately 10% of the population lives below the poverty line.
References
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Neighborhoods in Philadelphia
Olney-Oak Lane, Philadelphia