• Recognized as a national model of racial diversity and urban stability.  People of color comprise about half the neighborhood.
• 44,700 residents (2003 estimate), with steady growth since 1990.
• Over 25% of households have household incomes over $75,000 (a 112% increase since 1990).
• The Hyde Park - Kenwood communities have among the highest concentrations of buying power in the city of Chicago.
• Highly educated: over 62% hold a master's, professional or doctorate or a bachelor's degree

• Hyde Park is surrounded by communities experiencing unprecedented levels of growth and re-development.  For detailed information on these initiatives see the New Communities Program.

• New mixed-income communities, currently under construction, will be home to thousands of new residents. 

• The City of Chicago Police and the University of Chicago Police forces have formed a partnership to patrol the area from 39th - 64th Streets and east of Cottage Grove to Lake Michigan.

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• 11,150 University of Chicago graduate and undergraduate students.

• More than 60% of the University's faculty and their families, and nearly all of its students, live in Hyde Park.

• The University of Chicago is the largest single employer on the Southside of Chicago with over 12,0000 people.