 This push for low density from within the neighborhood is not new and was documented in an article as far back as 1987.The 2000 U.S. census counted 7,387 residents in the 0.79-square-mile neighborhood—an average of 9,354 people per square mile, about the same population density as the rest of the city.In 2008 the city estimated that the population had increased to 7,781.