Where to live in St. Petersburg
St. Petersburg is 62 square miles of land and 267,102 people on the Census Bureau's estimate for July 2024, at the southern end of the Pinellas peninsula across Tampa Bay from Tampa, and more of what lies inside its limits is water than land: 74 square miles of it. One school district, Pinellas County Schools, covers every address, and the levies on a tax bill are the same in every guide, so what the neighborhood decides here is everything else: how close the bay or a bayou runs, which in September 2024 decided whether Hurricane Helene's surge came into the house; whether the street is in one of the City's local historic districts, where exterior work needs the City's approval; whether it is in one of the City's redevelopment areas; and whether the address is in St. Petersburg at all, or in Gulfport, Kenneth City, South Pasadena or unincorporated Lealman beside it. These are 20 neighborhood guides, filterable by area below.
Browse dedicated pages for Downtown, the Old Northeast, Crescent Lake and Euclid-St. Paul inside Interstate 275, Snell Isle, Shore Acres and Riviera Bay on the bay, with Allendale and Meadowlawn inland west of 4th Street, Kenwood across Interstate 275 out through Disston Heights to Jungle Terrace and Jungle Prada on Boca Ciega Bay, Roser Park, Bartlett Park and Childs Park in the South St. Petersburg redevelopment area, Old Southeast and Coquina Key on the bay, down through Lakewood Estates to Pinellas Point.
20 communities across the city
A start on a city of about 267,000 people, drawn on the City's map of the areas its 130 registered neighborhood associations serve, so each guide is one association's area as the City maps it, and the two that are not say so. Filter by area of the city, then page through the rest.
Allendale
Allendale as the City's map draws it, four association areas between 4th Street North and Haines Road, mostly north of 38th Avenue North, 335 acres and 2,263 residents, with six City landmark houses inside.
Bartlett Park
The Bartlett Park Neighborhood Association's area less Roser Park's, between Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Street South and 4th Street South from about 12th to 22nd Avenues South, 219 acres and about 2,200 residents, with Bartlett Park, the Frank Pierce Recreation Center and the St. Petersburg Tennis Center inside.
Childs Park
The Childs Park Neighborhood Association's area west of 34th Street South, 830 acres and about 6,500 residents, all in the South St. Petersburg CRA, with Childs Park, its recreation center and library, and Fairmount Park Elementary inside.
Coquina Key
The Coquina Key Property Owners Association's area, the island off 4th Street South and the bay shore beside it, 465 acres and about 3,800 residents, with Coquina Key Park inside.
Crescent Lake
The Crescent Lake Neighborhood Association's area around the lake and its park west of 4th Street North, 173 acres and 1,268 residents, with Crescent Lake Park and Huggins-Stengel Field inside.
Disston Heights
The Disston Heights Civic Association's area between 34th and 66th Streets North, 2,688 acres and about 21,900 residents, the largest St. Petersburg guide on this site, with Gladden Park, four public elementary schools and the Jack Kerouac House inside.
Downtown St. Petersburg
The Downtown Neighborhood Association's area on the City's map, the waterfront core on both sides of Central Avenue east of Interstate 275, 631 acres and about 10,700 residents, with City Hall, the Dalí Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Mirror Lake and Williams Park inside.
Euclid-St. Paul
The Euclid-St. Paul Neighborhood Association's area west of Crescent Lake and south of 22nd Avenue North, 242 acres and 2,598 residents, with St. Paul Catholic School and the old Euclid Elementary building among its landmarks.
Jungle Prada
The Jungle Prada Neighborhood Association's area on Boca Ciega Bay along Park Street, 281 acres and about 1,000 residents, with the Jungle Prada archaeological site, Casa de Muchas Flores and Casa Coe da Sol inside.
Jungle Terrace
The Jungle Terrace Civic Association's area west of 66th Street North on Boca Ciega Bay, with Tyrone Boulevard crossing it, 1,368 acres and about 6,200 residents, with Tyrone Square Mall, Abercrombie Park and Walter Fuller Park inside.
Kenwood
The Historic Kenwood Neighborhood Association's area west of Interstate 275 and north of Central Avenue, 537 acres and about 4,000 residents, with St. Petersburg High School, Seminole Park and four City local historic districts inside.
Lakewood Estates
The Lakewood Estates Civic Association's area north of 54th Avenue South beside Boyd Hill Nature Preserve, 960 acres and about 4,400 residents, with Maximo Elementary inside.
Photographs: The waterfront at night by Eden, Janine and Jim, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons · The Vinoy by Elisa.rolle, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons · The Vinoy yacht basin at dusk by Calmuziclover, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons · The St. Petersburg skyline at sunrise by Andrew Heneen, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons · The skyline from the Pier by Rishabh Tatiraju, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons · The Snell Arcade on Central Avenue by Beyond My Ken, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons · The James Henry House by Mswmdx, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons · Park Street's brick pavement by Josh02 11, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons · The Crislip Arcade on Central Avenue by Beyond My Ken, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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The five areas at a glance
None of these five is drawn by the City. They are the names people here use, set on the lines St. Petersburg already divides itself by: Central Avenue, Interstate 275 and its two downtown spurs, 4th Street, 30th Avenue North and Coffee Pot Bayou, Gandy Boulevard, and the line of the City's South St. Petersburg redevelopment area. Where one area stops and the next begins is our judgment rather than a map anybody publishes.
| Area | Neighborhoods | Character |
|---|---|---|
| Downtown, the Old Northeast, Crescent Lake and Euclid-St. Paul inside Interstate 275 | Crescent Lake, Downtown St. Petersburg, Euclid-St. Paul, Old Northeast | The old city inside Interstate 275 and north of Interstate 175: Downtown St. Petersburg on the bay, with City Hall, the Dalí Museum and Mirror Lake; the Old Northeast up to 30th Avenue North, most of it in the North Shore National Register district; and Crescent Lake and Euclid-St. Paul west of 4th Street. |
| Snell Isle, Shore Acres and Riviera Bay on the bay, with Allendale and Meadowlawn inland west of 4th Street | Allendale, Meadowlawn, Riviera Bay, Shore Acres, Snell Isle | The rest of the city east of the interstate, from 30th Avenue North and Coffee Pot Bayou up to Gandy Boulevard and past it: Snell Isle, Shore Acres and Riviera Bay on the bay, the three neighborhoods on this list where the City assessed the most parcels for damage after Helene, and Allendale and Meadowlawn between 4th Street and the interstate. |
| Kenwood across Interstate 275 out through Disston Heights to Jungle Terrace and Jungle Prada on Boca Ciega Bay | Disston Heights, Jungle Prada, Jungle Terrace, Kenwood | The city west of Interstate 275: Historic Kenwood beside the interstate, with four City historic districts, out through Disston Heights, the largest association area in the city, to Jungle Terrace, where Tyrone Boulevard and Tyrone Square Mall are, and Jungle Prada on Boca Ciega Bay. |
| Roser Park, Bartlett Park and Childs Park in the South St. Petersburg redevelopment area | Bartlett Park, Childs Park, Roser Park | The City's South St. Petersburg Community Redevelopment Area south of Central Avenue: Roser Park on Booker Creek, the smallest neighborhood here and the city's best-known early suburb, then Bartlett Park and Childs Park. |
| Old Southeast and Coquina Key on the bay, down through Lakewood Estates to Pinellas Point | Coquina Key, Lakewood Estates, Old Southeast, Pinellas Point | The rest of the city south of downtown and east of the interstate: Old Southeast and Coquina Key on the bay, Lakewood Estates beside Boyd Hill Nature Preserve, and Pinellas Point at the southern tip. |
Where the neighborhoods come from. St. Petersburg does not draw neighborhoods of its own. What it keeps is a map of the areas its registered neighborhood associations say they serve: 130 of them on the City's Neighborhood Associations layer, last edited on 28 September 2026, from a single condominium to nearly 22,000 residents. The associations draw those lines, not the City, and they overlap: on our count of the 2020 census blocks, 19,970 residents are in two or more, nearly all because the Downtown Residents Civic Association drew its 1,544 acres over downtown, the southern Old Northeast, Historic Uptown, Roser Park and parts of six others. Together the 130 hold 222,825 of the city's 258,117 residents, 86.3%. Every guide is one association's area as the City maps it, with two exceptions that say so: Allendale is the four areas that carry the name taken together, each block counted once, because no one of them is Allendale; and Bartlett Park is its association's area less Roser Park's, which overlaps it by 210 residents. Where a small area sits inside a larger one, the small one is the guide and the larger is named in it. Each line is clipped to the city limits as the City draws them today, and each guide's population is the 2020 census count of the blocks inside it. Two are much larger than the name in everyday use: Disston Heights is its civic association's 2,688 acres and 21,888 residents between 34th and 66th Streets North, and Pinellas Point is the Greater Pinellas Point Civic Association's 16,418 residents south of 54th Avenue South. Roser Park, at 627, is the smallest. Only the City of St. Petersburg is covered. Gulfport, South Pasadena, Kenneth City, St. Pete Beach, Treasure Island, Pinellas Park and Seminole are separate cities; Lealman, West Lealman, Bear Creek, Feather Sound, Tierra Verde and Bay Pines are unincorporated Pinellas County; none of them is here. A St. Petersburg mailing address does not settle which one a house is in: the Pinellas County Property Appraiser's record for the property does.
The five areas are ours. The City does publish divisions, and none of them is a way to choose where to live. Its eight City Council districts are electoral, 30,947 to 32,991 residents each on the 2020 count, and are redrawn after every census. Its three community liaison zones are unnamed staffing areas. Its three Community Redevelopment Areas, South St. Petersburg, Intown and Intown West, held 43,440 residents in 2020 and leave the other 214,677 out. Its association map is real lines, and every guide uses them, but 130 overlapping areas are far too many to group by. So the five areas are set on the lines residents already divide the city by: Central Avenue, Interstate 275 and its Interstate 175 and 375 spurs, 4th Street, 30th Avenue North and Coffee Pot Bayou, Gandy Boulevard, and the South St. Petersburg redevelopment area's own line south of Central Avenue. By those lines, in 2020, Downtown and the Old Northeast held 31,228 residents, Northeast St. Pete 80,561, Kenwood and West St. Pete 81,185, South St. Pete 33,124 and Pinellas Point and the Southeast 32,019. Every neighborhood on this list falls wholly in one area except Downtown, 99%, Roser Park, 89%, and Bartlett Park, 96%, whose few outlying blocks sit just past the Interstate 175 line or outside the redevelopment area's. Which neighborhood lands in which area is our judgment.
What is not here. The twenty neighborhoods this list starts with held 108,179 of the city's 258,117 residents in 2020, 41.9%, a smaller share than in other cities on this site because the associations' areas are small: the median holds about 1,000 people. The rest come as the guides do. Historic Uptown, 2,717 residents in the Round Lake National Register district, is the first to add downtown; Northeast Park, Edgemoor, Fossil Park, Gateway, Placido Bayou and Venetian Isles in the Northeast; Central Oak Park and North Kenwood in the west, then Azalea and Pasadena Bear Creek Estates, and Isla del Sol, Maximo-Moorings and Broadwater on the shore south of Central Avenue; Twin Brooks, Lake Maggiore Shores, Melrose Mercy and Harbordale in South St. Pete; and Bayou Highlands and Lakewood Terrace in the Southeast. Tyrone has no guide of its own: the association map has only Tyrone Landing and Tyrone Gardens, 667 residents between them, and Tyrone Square Mall is inside Jungle Terrace, which carries what residents mean by Tyrone. About 35,300 residents, 13.7%, live in no association's area, most of them north of 54th Avenue North and around Gandy Boulevard. And some places are not where their names suggest: Lakewood High School is in Pinellas Point, not Lakewood Estates; the St. Pete Pier and Albert Whitted Airport are outside the Downtown association's line, and Tropicana Field is in no association's area at all; neither are Lake Maggiore, Boyd Hill Nature Preserve, Weedon Island Preserve, Mangrove Bay Golf Course, Northeast High School or Eckerd College, so no guide holds them.