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%