South Portland, Portland, Oregon

South Portland
Neighborhood
Location in Portland
Coordinates: 45°29′24″N 122°40′37″W / 45.49°N 122.677°W / 45.49; -122.677PDF map
CountryUnited States
StateOregon
CityPortland
Government
  AssociationSouth Portland Neighborhood Association
  CoalitionSouthwest Neighborhoods, Inc.
Area
  Total
1.67 sq mi (4.33 km2)
Population
 (2000)
  Total
5,079
  Density3,000/sq mi (1,200/km2)
Housing
  No. of households2904
  Owner-occupied1220 households (42%)
  Renting1684 households (58%)
Data from PortlandOnline.com

South Portland is a long, narrow neighborhood just south of Downtown Portland, Oregon, hemmed in between the Willamette River and the West Hills. It stretches from I-405 and the Marquam Bridge on the north, to SW Canby St. and the Sellwood Bridge in the south. The Willamette forms the eastern boundary, and SW Barbur Blvd. most of the western boundary. In addition to Downtown to the north, other bordering neighborhoods are Southwest Hills, Homestead, Hillsdale, and South Burlingame to the west, and Hosford-Abernethy, Brooklyn, and Sellwood-Moreland across the river on the east.

The neighborhood, formerly known as Corbett-Terwilliger-Lair Hill or CTLH, changed its name at a meeting of its neighborhood association on September 6, 2006, to be more concise and inclusive. South Portland was the name of a 19th-century community that overlapped the present day neighborhood.