North Central Philadelphia

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "North Central Philadelphia" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (October 2012) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

North Central
Neighborhood of Philadelphia
North Central
Coordinates: 40°00′00″N 75°08′35″W / 40.0°N 75.143°W / 40.0; -75.143
Country	United States
State	Pennsylvania
County	Philadelphia
City	Philadelphia
Area code(s)	215, 267 and 445

North Central is an area in the North Philadelphia section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. The name of the area is derived from its location, near the center of North Philadelphia. According to Census 2010, North Central is primarily a low-income neighborhood where 60% of its residents are African American and 40% are Puerto Rican. Hartranft and Stanton are neighborhoods locally known as "North Central". North Central borders both North Philadelphia East and North Philadelphia West.

School District of Philadelphia operates public schools.

The Free Library of Philadelphia Lillian Marrero Branch serves West Kensington.^[1]

This Philadelphia-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e