MILL PARK · PORTLAND

Mill Park

East Portland Coalition of Neighborhoods

11 spots to discover in this neighborhood 9,000 residents · 2 sq mi

“Quietly diverse East Portland — refreshed parks, a community center pool, and families from around the world.”

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What Mill Park Is Known For

“Quietly diverse East Portland — refreshed parks, a community center pool, and families from around the world.”

— Mill Park, Portland

About

Mill Park

Mill Park is tucked into the inner east side of outer Portland, roughly between SE Washington Street to the north and SE Division to the south, and between 92nd and 122nd Avenues. The neighborhood is named for the 6.2-acre Mill Park, which in 2025 underwent a major renovation that added a new playground, splash pad, community garden, and gathering spaces — a long-sought investment in a part of the city that has historically been underserved by parks infrastructure. Adjacent to the park is Mill Park Elementary, creating a natural family anchor.

The East Portland Community Center at 740 SE 106th Ave is the neighborhood's civic heart. The large facility includes an indoor pool and programming in ESL, Chinese and Russian language classes, Tai Chi, children's summer camp, guitar lessons, and more — a window into the neighborhood's multicultural demographics. Three major boulevards (SE Washington, SE Stark, and SE Division) cut through Mill Park, but the neighborhood itself is primarily residential. Local restaurants like Fujiyama Sushi on SE Washington and El Palmar Mexican Food on SE Stark serve regulars without fanfare. The Mill Park Neighborhood Association meets monthly at Gethsemane Lutheran Church.

Boundaries: Approx. SE 92nd Ave (west), SE 122nd Ave (east), SE Washington St (north), SE Division St (south). Adjacent: Montavilla (northwest), Hazelwood (east), Centennial (southeast).

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What Mill Park Feels Like

Modest, diverse residential neighborhood

Mill Park is a modest, residential neighborhood with a quiet, everyday feel and a diverse community. It blends single-family streets with apartment complexes, oriented around the larger commercial corridors that surround it.

Its character is practical and unpretentious, shaped by its working-class population and its proximity to the bustling 82nd Avenue corridor.

History

How Mill Park Came To Be

Mill Park is a residential neighborhood in East Portland, located east of 82nd Avenue near the busy corridors that run through this part of the city. Like much of the surrounding area, it was part of unincorporated Multnomah County for most of its history and was annexed into Portland during the wave of east-side annexations in the 1980s and 1990s.

The neighborhood filled in largely during the mid and late twentieth century, with a mix of single-family homes and apartment complexes built as Portland's suburban edge expanded eastward. As with other east Portland communities, it developed before the city's investments in sidewalks, parks, and stormwater systems, a gap that has shaped neighborhood improvement efforts since annexation.

Mill Park is a diverse, working-class community, part of an east Portland landscape that includes the 82nd Avenue corridor and its nearby Jade District, an area known for its concentration of Asian and immigrant-owned businesses just to the west.

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