Summit Lake Neighborhood (Akron, Ohio) | neighbourhood

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The Summit Lake neighborhood lies between Downtown and Kenmore, with easy access to I-76/I-77. Summit Lake land use is primarily mixed residential, with multi -family housing on the east side of the lake. Summit Lake occupies a large portion of the area. The Ohio and Erie Canal Towpath currently ends north of the lake. The Summit Lake Community Center and Park is on the east side of Summit Lake, and Margaret Park is on the west side. A large industrial area occupies land south of Kenmore Boulevard. Light industrial or retail uses exist between Main Street and Broadway.

Summit Lake is Akron’s most diverse neighborhood. Eighty-three percent of the population is about equally split between White and African-American; the remaining population consists of Other racial and ethnic groups. Although average household income in Summit Lake grew faster in the 1990s than in the City as a whole, it remained only two-thirds that of City households. Summit Lake’s poverty rate remained high, at 37%, even though the poverty rate decreased more than in the City as a whole during the 1990s.