About My Community

In my own words I believe the definition of a community is when a group of people reside in a specific location, share government, and often have a common cultural and historical heritage. In some cases people have lived their whole life in the same neighborhood or community because they consider it their home. As in my case I consider myself to be part of the Hispanic community in Inwood Heights because that is where I have been raised for the most part.
Inwood is located in the Northern tip of Manhattan right next to Washington Heights. The two neighborhoods are often lumped together as one because administratively they make up Manhattan Community District 12. Although this section of Manhattan is generally ignored by most tourist map, there are plenty of places one can visit in Inwood and Washington Heights to learn about its extraordinary history.
According to a survey taken in 2000 Washington Heights and Inwood had a population of "208,414 people, which represented an increase of 5.2% since the 1990 survey and 15.8% since the 1980 survey, so the community has been growing. The racial/ethnic breakdown is as follows: 74.1% Hispanic, 13.6% white (non-Hispanic), 8.4% black (non-Hispanic), and 2.1% Asian/Pacific Islander".


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