Southside is a neighborhood in
Louisville, Kentucky
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, United States. Its boundaries are Third Street to the west, Woodlawn Avenue, Allmond Avenue and Hiawatha Avenue to the north, the
CSX
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railroad tracks to the east, and the southern boundary of the
Greater Louisville Technology Park (formerly Naval Ordnance), Southside Drive and Kenwood Drive to the south.
The neighborhood has been settled by a wide array of immigrant groups, mostly refugees.
Those from Vietnam dominated throughout most of the 1990s, but have since been succeeded by those from Cuba.
37.6% were born in other countries to parents also born in other countries (first among all neighborhoods in the pre-merger city,) making up 1,976 of the total population of 5,260.
The top lands of national origin according to the online Statistical Atlas amongst the foreign-born:
Cuba -
19.1%
377
Burma -
12.7%
251
Vietnam -
8.6%
169
Mexico -
7.0%
139
Iraq -
5.3%
104
Nepal -
4.5%
90
Bosnia and Herzegovina -
3.5%
70
Haiti -
3.2%
63
Iran -
2.0%
40
Ethiopia -
2.0%
39
References
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*https://web.archive.org/web/20180629102702/https://insiderlouisville.com/communities/americana-community-helps-immigrant-refugee-populations/
*https://statisticalatlas.com/neighborhood/Kentucky/Louisville/Southside/National-Origin
External links
The Americana Apartment complex sits in the heart of the area designated as the Southside Neighborhood. See "Our History"Street map of Southside Images of Southside (Louisville, Ky.) in the University of Louisville Libraries Digital Collections
Neighborhoods in Louisville, Kentucky
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