Pennsport, Philadelphia

Pennsport
Neighborhood of Philadelphia
The former Abigail Vare School in Pennsport
Country	United States
State	Pennsylvania
County	Philadelphia County
City	Philadelphia
Area code(s)	Area code 215

Pennsport is a neighborhood in the South Philadelphia section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

Pennsport is home to a large working-class Irish American population and is home to many of the organizations ("clubs") which are located on 2nd Street (known locally as "Two Street") that perform in Philadelphia's annual Mummers Parade on New Year's Day. It was also the site of a controversial push for casinos along the Philadelphia waterfront.Foxwoods Casino was proposed for Christopher Columbus Boulevard at Reed Street.

Pennsport is bound by Passyunk Square to the west, the Delaware River to the east, the Queen Village neighborhood to the north, and the Whitman neighborhood to the south. The Pennsport Redevelopment Area Plan of 1968 listed the border streets as Washington Avenue on the north, Snyder Avenue on the south, and Fourth Street on the west.

The 2000 census listed Pennsport's population as 26,300, a figure that includes the populations of Southwark, Queen Village, and Whitman.

Pennsport is 70% white, 17% black, 8% Asian, and 5% Latino. Roughly 40% of the population is under 18.

According to the Genealogy of Philadelphia County Subdivisions, Pennsport was originally part of Moyamensing Township. Most of the area north of present-day Mifflin Street was included in the Southwark District from 1794 until the consolidation of Philadelphia in 1854. At that point, it was mostly contained in the First Ward. The First and Second Wards ran east of Passyunk Avenue and were divided by Wharton Street (First to the south, Second to the north). The southern boundary of the First Ward initially spanned south to the river, but it was stopped at Mifflin Street in 1898.