Baker is one
of Denver’s oldest neighborhoods. Baker is a beautiful neighborhood, with fine old
homes -- many of them built more than 100 years ago -- and tree lined streets. But the
neighborhood is locked between major intersections (Broadway and I-25 on the east and
west, and 6th Avenue and Mississippi on the north and south), with all of the railroad
tracks and industries typically brought by such proximity to major thoroughfares. The
majority of its residential blocks (80-90 percent) were developed before 1900.
Baker’s population is increasing (by 11 percent between 1990 and 2000). At the same
time, the number of children and the number of seniors in the neighborhood dropped. Still
children make up almost one-quarter of the population. A surprising number of those
children – 22 percent – do not live with either parent, presumably living with
grandparents or other relatives. Almost a quarter of children in Baker live with single
parents.
Latinos make up a just over half the neighborhood’s population, but non-Latino whites
now comprise 40 percent of all residents. An overwhelming majority of all public school
students in the neighborhood, 85 percent, are Latino. More than one-third of students are
not proficient in English.
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