Neighborhood Characteristics

• Fern Hill was subdivided in the early 1900's to take advantage of the streetcar line on Minnetonka Boulevard. Half of the neighborhood's homes were built before 1945.
• Fern Hill has two neighborhood parks: Fern Hill Park and Twin Lakes Park.
• Fern Hill is the largest neighborhood in St. Louis Park in terms of residential size. It occupies 384.5 acres (residential area: 51 blocks)
• Parks and open space - 9.8 percent
• Commercial/industrial - 1.0 percent
• Fern Hill has 1,338 housing units (958 single family homes, 27 condominiums, 59 townhomes, 268 apartment units and 26 duplex units).
• The average year built (single family houses) was 1945.