Ventura Village is a neighborhood within the Phillips community in

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. Its boundaries are Interstate 35W to the west,

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(including the I-94/I-35W bottleneck) to the north, and

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to the east. The southern boundary runs (from west to east) along East 22nd Street from I-35W to Chicago Avenue, along East 24th Street from Chicago Avenue to 17th Avenue South, and then back up to 22nd Street from 17th Avenue to

(this portion is only about a block long). Franklin Avenue, which runs east–west, acts as the main commercial artery in the neighborhood. Ventura Village is entirely located within

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Ward 6, represented by Jamal Osman.

Demographics

As of 2020, the population of Ventura Village was 7,050, split 51.0% male and 49.0% female. 5,160 are of voting age. 58.6% of residents were at least a high school graduate (or equivalent), and 14.5% had earned a bachelor's degree or higher. 37.3% of the population were foreign-born residents, and 57.6% spoke a language other than English at home. According to the American Community Survey 5-year estimates (2016-2020), the top non-English languages spoken in Ventura Village were Spanish (spoken by 18.2% of the population), Somali (6.1%), Oromo (2.2%), Amharic (1.7%), and Vietnamese (1.3%). 34.1% of residents spoke English less than "very well". 36.1% of households had no access to a vehicle. Among workers 16 years and older, 60.0% commuted to work via

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, 16.9% used

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, and 23.0% walked, biked, worked at home, or used some other method. The medium household income in Ventura Village was $32,131. 37.9% of residents lived below the

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, and 9.0% were unemployed. 84.4% of housing in the neighborhood was renter-occupied.

References

External links

Minneapolis Neighborhood Profile - Ventura Villagepdf map
of the Neighborhood.
Ventura Village Neighborhood AssociationPhillips Neighbors Forum
- Neighborhood e-mail list and forum including Ventura Village Neighborhoods in Minneapolis {{HennepinCountyMN-geo-stub