City Park West
Between Uptown and City Park: hospitals, historic homes, and the Esplanade. City Park West runs from Downing to York along the western edge of Denver’s largest park.
Population & home ownership: ACS 2019–2023 · median age & rent: ACS 2017–2021 · Denver Open Data
WHO LIVES HERE
Young, renting, and close to the hospitals
Nearly two-thirds of City Park West residents are under 40 and about 3 in 10 own their home. At $931 the median rent is the lowest in the district.
Source: Denver Open Data, American Community Survey 2017–2021
GET INVOLVED
Registered Neighborhood Organizations
HISTORY
Streetcar suburb, and a quiet civil-rights history
Platted speculatively from the 1870s, City Park West filled in through the 1880s as Denverites moved out from the center. In the 1920s, as the Ku Klux Klan held sway in city politics, Black families here defied restrictive covenants to buy homes, at real personal risk. By 1979 the area was studied together with North Capitol Hill as “Uptown.”
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