Facts about Baltimore

Neighborhoods in Baltimore include: Arlington, Ashburton, Cheswolde, Fallstaff, Forest Park/Howard, Glen, Park Heights, Pimlico, Abell, Cedarcroft, Ednor Gardens-Lakeside, Evergreen, Mid-Govans, Guilford, Hampden, Homeland, Keswick, Mount Washington, Pen Lucy, and Radnor-Winston.

The official website for the city of Baltimore is http://www.baltimorecity.gov/.

Baltimore is represented by Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake.

Baltimore now the city’s top two employers.Baltimore had a population of 622,104 in 2013; in 2010, that of Baltimore Metropolitan Area was 2.7 million, the 20th largest in the country.With hundreds of identified districts, Baltimore has been dubbed “a city of neighborhoods”. Famous residents have included the writers Edgar Allan Poe, Frederick Douglass and H.L. Mencken, jazz musician James “Eubie” Blake, singer Billie Holiday, actor and filmmaker John Waters, and baseball player Babe Ruth. In the War of 1812, Francis Scott Key wrote The Star-Spangled Banner, later the American national anthem, in the city.Almost a quarter of the jobs in the Baltimore region are in science, technology, engineering and math, in part attributed to its extensive undergraduate and graduate schools.