Mantua Section Of Philadelphia

Two women were killed and a teenager was injured late wednesday authorities said when they were struck by a speeding car that jumped the curb and sent one woman s body across the street and through the front door of a vacant house in the city s mantua section.

Mantua section of philadelphia. View listing photos review sales history and use our detailed real estate filters to find the perfect place. 49 homes for sale in mantua philadelphia pa. Neither mantua also known as the bottom nor his neighborhood in.

29 106 people per square mile. The mantua neighborhood is located in west philadelphia. Though there is no official definition of its boundaries it is generally considered to reach from the western shore of the schuylkill river to city line avenue to the northwest cobbs creek to the southwest and the septa media elwyn line to the south.

The neighborhood s northern and western reaches are predominantly working class and african american although its southern border with powelton village has seen recent gentrification and an influx of drexel university and university of pennsylvania student renters. Mantua is home to approximately 5 992 people and 1 944 jobs. Investigators believe a game of dice may have sparked the shooting.

Although many of the surrounding areas have turned things around mantua continues to be a spot of trouble. Browse photos see new properties get open house info and research neighborhoods on trulia. Although residents of the neighborhood are working hard to revitalize the area ongoing crime is slowing the process down.

11 606 people per square mile. It is located north of spring garden street east of 40th street south of mantua avenue and west of 31st street. Mantua is a fairly walkable neighborhood in philadelphia with a walk score of 84.

Mantua is a neighborhood in the west philadelphia section of philadelphia pennsylvania. Zillow has 83 homes for sale in mantua philadelphia matching. West philadelphia nicknamed west philly is a section of philadelphia.