Kenwood across Interstate 275 out through Disston Heights to Jungle Terrace and Jungle Prada on Boca Ciega Bay
The city west of Interstate 275: Historic Kenwood beside the interstate, Disston Heights out to 66th Street, Jungle Terrace, where Tyrone Boulevard runs, and Jungle Prada on Boca Ciega Bay.
Photograph: The Crislip Arcade on Central Avenue · downtown, about 3 km east along Central Avenue, not a photograph of Kenwood · Beyond My Ken · CC BY-SA 4.0 · sourceKenwood and West St. Pete is our grouping of the city west of Interstate 275, 81,185 residents in 2020, 17,107 of them south of Central Avenue on the Pasadena and Broadwater shore. Kenwood is the Historic Kenwood Neighborhood Association's 537 acres between the interstate and 34th Street North, 3,970 residents with St. Petersburg High School and Seminole Park. Disston Heights is much larger than the name in everyday use: its civic association's area runs from 34th to 66th Streets North, 2,688 acres and 21,888 residents, the largest of the city's 130, split between two council districts and bordering Kenneth City, a separate town, and unincorporated Lealman. Jungle Terrace, west of 66th Street, is 6,176 residents with Tyrone Square Mall, Abercrombie Park and Walter Fuller Park, and it carries what residents mean by Tyrone, which has no association area of any size of its own. Jungle Prada, 1,036 residents along Park Street on Boca Ciega Bay, holds the Jungle Prada archaeological site and two National Register houses, Casa de Muchas Flores and Casa Coe da Sol. 4 guides are listed below.
Kenwood is the one neighborhood here with City historic review: 930 of its residents are in four local historic districts, where exterior work needs the City's certificate of appropriateness, and 3,106 in the Kenwood National Register district, which by itself adds none. Its 1,368 residents on the southern blocks are inside the South St. Petersburg redevelopment area, which reaches north of Central Avenue here and adds no rate. The two storms divided this area by distance from the water. Helene's surge reached the Boca Ciega Bay shore: the City assessed 110 parcels in Jungle Terrace afterward, 102 with water inside, and 34 in Jungle Prada, 32 with water inside, and it recorded no water in Kenwood or Disston Heights. Milton, two weeks later, flooded inland instead, and Disston Heights had 370 parcels assessed after it, 187 with water inside the home, more than any other neighborhood on this list. A homeowners policy covers neither kind of flooding, and away from the bay FEMA's map is not the whole of the risk, so ask for the claims history and a flood quote whatever the zone.
4 communities, guide by guide
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.
- 21,888
- Residents of the 548 census blocks inside the Disston Heights Civic Association's area as the City maps it, in 10,084 housing units, the most of any St. Petersburg guide on this site, U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 census
- 2,688 acres
- Area of the association's line between 34th and 66th Streets North, split between City Council District 8 (16,839 residents) and District 1 (5,049), with no City historic district or redevelopment area inside, City of St. Petersburg, read 2026
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.
- 1,036
- Residents of the 15 census blocks inside the Jungle Prada Neighborhood Association's 281 acres, in 475 housing units, U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 census
- 32 of 34
- Properties the City assessed after Hurricane Helene that had water inside, 28 of them 12 inches or more, and 23 recorded as major damage; one point per assessed parcel, not per home, City of St. Petersburg, 2024 assessments read 2026
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.
- 6,176
- Residents of the 172 census blocks inside the Jungle Terrace Civic Association's area as the City maps it, in 2,953 housing units, U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 census
- 102
- Parcels where the City's assessment after Hurricane Helene in September 2024 recorded water inside, of 110 it assessed here, 67 with major damage and 84 with 12 inches of water or more, every one west of Park Street North; after Milton it recorded water in 3, City of St. Petersburg, read 2026
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.
- 3,970
- Residents of the 142 census blocks inside the Historic Kenwood Neighborhood Association's area as the City maps it, in 2,408 housing units, U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 census
- 930
- Residents inside the City's four local historic districts here, where exterior work needs a certificate of appropriateness: Northwest Kenwood 413, Southeast Kenwood 248, Southwest Central Kenwood 232 and Seminole Park 37; 3,106 are in the National Register district, which adds no City review, City of St. Petersburg, read 2026
Photographs: The skyline from the Pier by Rishabh Tatiraju, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons · Park Street's brick pavement by Josh02 11, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons · The St. Petersburg skyline at sunrise by Andrew Heneen, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.