For planning purposes, the City of Cleveland is divided into 34 traditional neighborhoods, technically known as Statistical Planning Areas (SPAs). As the name implies, SPAs provide a framework for summarizing socio-economic and other statistics within the City. SPA boundaries were last revised in 2012.
The City of Cleveland’s Tree Canopy, as noted above, was at 17.9% of its land area in 2017. The canopy in fourteen of its SPAs were below the City average. Four of those low-canopy neighborhoods are dominated by non-residential uses characterized by impervious areas. (including two airports): Downtown, Cuyahoga Valley, Goodrich-Kirtland Park, and Hopkins. All four had extremely low canopy (below 8%) and high concentrations of impervious cover. These four areas together encompass almost 16% of the City’s land area.
Twenty neighborhoods exceeded the City average for tree canopy, including four with canopy near or above 25%.
Existing Tree Canopy
Possible Tree Canopy
Components of Tree Canopy
Change, 2011-2017
As observed among the County’s 59 communities, nearly all Cleveland neighborhoods lost tree canopy from 2011-2017. Losses exceeding 10% occurred in Detroit-Shoreway, Edgewater, and University Circle.
Only the heavily urbanized Downtown and Cuyahoga Valley neighborhoods showed increases above the countywide margin of error of +/- 1.5%. Cuyahoga Valley showed an increase of over 10%, though it is among the lowest in existing tree canopy overall.
Tree Canopy Data by Neighborhood
| Existing Tree Canopy | Possible Planting Area (Vegetated) | Possible Planting Area (Impervious) | Not Suitable | Change | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Total Area, Excluding Water (Acres) | Acres | Percent | Acres | Percent | Acres | Percent | Acres | Percent | Acres | Percent |
| Bellaire-Puritas | 2,192 | 309 | 14% | 670 | 31% | 584 | 27% | 628 | 29% | -19 | -6% |
| Broadway-Slavic Village | 2,896 | 534 | 18% | 792 | 27% | 781 | 27% | 788 | 27% | 6 | 1% |
| Brooklyn Centre | 934 | 211 | 23% | 254 | 27% | 209 | 22% | 260 | 28% | -6 | -3% |
| Buckeye-Shaker Square | 742 | 171 | 23% | 173 | 23% | 175 | 24% | 223 | 30% | -13 | -7% |
| Buckeye-Woodhill | 790 | 173 | 22% | 248 | 31% | 184 | 23% | 185 | 23% | -16 | -8% |
| Central | 1,501 | 182 | 12% | 422 | 28% | 457 | 30% | 440 | 29% | -12 | -6% |
| Clark-Fulton | 611 | 106 | 17% | 141 | 23% | 156 | 26% | 207 | 34% | -6 | -6% |
| Collinwood-Nottingham | 2,107 | 285 | 14% | 529 | 25% | 662 | 31% | 632 | 30% | 3 | 1% |
| Cudell | 698 | 104 | 15% | 152 | 22% | 192 | 28% | 249 | 36% | -7 | -6% |
| Cuyahoga Valley | 2,336 | 130 | 6% | 409 | 17% | 1,118 | 48% | 680 | 29% | 12 | 10% |
| Detroit Shoreway | 973 | 155 | 16% | 251 | 26% | 248 | 26% | 318 | 33% | -24 | -14% |
| Downtown | 1,747 | 73 | 4% | 454 | 26% | 588 | 34% | 632 | 36% | 2 | 3% |
| Edgewater | 532 | 135 | 25% | 138 | 26% | 117 | 22% | 143 | 27% | -22 | -14% |
| Euclid-Green | 732 | 260 | 36% | 179 | 24% | 134 | 18% | 159 | 22% | -20 | -7% |
| Fairfax | 1,031 | 175 | 17% | 263 | 26% | 304 | 30% | 288 | 28% | -8 | -4% |
| Glenville | 2,452 | 605 | 25% | 669 | 27% | 528 | 22% | 651 | 27% | -15 | -2% |
| Goodrich-Kirtland Pk | 1,068 | 82 | 8% | 186 | 17% | 338 | 32% | 463 | 43% | -8 | -9% |
| Hopkins | 2,625 | 208 | 8% | 1,205 | 46% | 600 | 23% | 613 | 23% | -10 | -5% |
| Hough | 1,089 | 253 | 23% | 333 | 31% | 226 | 21% | 276 | 25% | -10 | -4% |
| Jefferson | 1,655 | 273 | 16% | 397 | 24% | 451 | 27% | 534 | 32% | -12 | -4% |
| Kamm's | 3,153 | 966 | 31% | 889 | 28% | 596 | 19% | 702 | 22% | -93 | -9% |
| Kinsman | 1,071 | 225 | 21% | 372 | 35% | 235 | 22% | 240 | 22% | -4 | -2% |
| Lee-Harvard | 1,059 | 192 | 18% | 366 | 35% | 238 | 22% | 262 | 25% | -15 | -7% |
| Lee-Seville | 913 | 168 | 18% | 339 | 37% | 210 | 23% | 197 | 22% | -14 | -8% |
| Mount Pleasant | 1,402 | 297 | 21% | 423 | 30% | 318 | 23% | 366 | 26% | -9 | -3% |
| North Shore Collinwood | 1,441 | 292 | 20% | 406 | 28% | 341 | 24% | 402 | 28% | -24 | -8% |
| Ohio City | 709 | 143 | 20% | 147 | 21% | 164 | 23% | 255 | 36% | -11 | -7% |
| Old Brooklyn | 3,769 | 796 | 21% | 1,125 | 30% | 882 | 23% | 966 | 26% | -25 | -3% |
| St.Clair-Superior | 1,031 | 198 | 19% | 273 | 26% | 281 | 27% | 280 | 27% | -2 | -1% |
| Stockyards | 1,064 | 170 | 16% | 288 | 27% | 302 | 28% | 304 | 29% | 0 | 0% |
| Tremont | 1,068 | 158 | 15% | 278 | 26% | 297 | 28% | 334 | 31% | -14 | -8% |
| Union-Miles | 2,044 | 431 | 21% | 591 | 29% | 488 | 24% | 534 | 26% | -12 | -3% |
| University | 963 | 219 | 23% | 208 | 22% | 240 | 25% | 296 | 31% | -33 | -13% |
| West Boulevard | 1,218 | 232 | 19% | 288 | 24% | 297 | 24% | 402 | 33% | -13 | -5% |
| Total | 49,615 | 8,910 | 18% | 13,856 | 28% | 12,942 | 26% | 13,908 | 28% | -453 | -1% |