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About WaHI

Washington Heights and Inwood (WaHI) and Marble Hill are the three northernmost neighborhoods in Manhattan in New York City. Although they are part of “The City,” this section of Manhattan is generally ignored by most tourist maps, whose northern edge is usually depicted as 96th Street or 125th Street.

Washington Heights is bounded to the south by 155th Street and to the north by Fairview Avenue and runs from the Harlem River on the east to the Hudson River on the west. Inwood is the northern tip of the island, everything lying north of Fairview Avenue. The two neighborhoods are often lumped together as one because administratively they make up Manhattan Community District 12. Marble Hill is the landlocked section of Manhattan and is now physically connected to the Bronx. It was separated from the rest of Manhattan when the Harlem River Ship Canal was dug and the Spuyten Duyvil Creek was filled in.

According to the 2000 Census, WaHI had a population of 208,414 people, which represented an increase of 5.2% since the 1990 Census and 15.8% since the 1980 Census, 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. The median household income was $28,865 in 1999 and $52,578 in 2002, which reflects the fact that WaHI is quickly becoming gentrified as increasing numbers of professionals with higher incomes seek affordable housing in our neighborhood. 29.8% of community residents were living below the poverty level in 1999, but this proportion has probably decreased as higher-income residents move in and poorer residents are pushed out by gentrification. Of the 73,230 housing units in Community District 12 in 2000, 94.5% were rental units and only 5.5% were owner-occupied.

Click here to read newspaper and magazine profiles of our neighborhoods and general Web pages that describe our Northern Manhattan paradise.

For more detailed demographic information on WaHI, visit the Department of City Planning’s Community District Data (search for CD12) and the Verizon Superpages Marketing Demographic Profile.