HOUSING STOCK:

A mixture of restored duplexes and single-family homes, many of them Queen Anne style.

TO DO: Each year, volunteers organized by the Walnut Way Conservation Corp. install hundreds of raised garden beds in backyards and at parks and places of worship. The gardens not only green up the neighborhood, they help feed its people.

MEDIAN HOME PRICE: $104,300, up 8.9 percent from last year