19 Mayıs Neighborhood, Kadıköy
The 19 Mayıs neighborhood is located in Kadıköy district, made up of 954 buildings.
Where Is 19 Mayıs?
The 19 Mayıs neighborhood is adjacent to neighborhoods such as Atatürk, Barbaros, İçerenköy. Within the neighborhood, the price per square meter shows a 1.5x difference between the most and least expensive areas; the median for Istanbul neighborhoods is 2.05x.
Among apartments of the same size, age, floor and room count, a 1.49x price difference was measured within this neighborhood. The Istanbul median is ×2.05 (the black line marks it). A wide gap means where you live within the neighborhood matters a lot; a narrow one means the neighborhood is homogeneous.
We cannot say where in the neighborhood the difference occurs. Source and methodology
Who Lives in the 19 Mayıs Neighborhood?
32K people live in 19 Mayıs, at a density of 24K people per km². That is 1.3 times the Istanbul average density. The median age is 44; the Istanbul neighborhood average is 36, which makes this a neighborhood 9 years older. The average household here has 2.5 people. The average length of schooling is 13 years, 3 years above the city average. 54% are university graduates, compared with 22% citywide.
Education level of neighborhood residents
The vertical line marks the average (median) of Istanbul's 745 neighborhoods; the value beside it is the neighborhood's difference from that average (percentage points for ratios, relative difference for durations).
Infrastructure and environment
Indicators are compiled from TÜİK, BTK and İBB Open Data records. Source and methodology
Profile of 19 Mayıs Neighborhood Residents
Resident satisfaction
Share who said "satisfied" or "very satisfied." The vertical line marks the Kadıköy district overall.
Hometowns
Asked directly of residents in the İBB household survey: the hometown of those born outside Istanbul who settled here.
Source: İBB Veriye Dayalı Yönetim Modeli hane halkı araştırması (50.391 hane). 131 households from this neighborhood responded.
What Is the 19 Mayıs Neighborhood Like?
19 Mayıs is a neighborhood with an education level markedly above the Istanbul average; 54% of adults are university graduates. At the ballot box, the opposition bloc is ahead markedly (84%). There are no businesses serving alcohol on the premises in the public space; consumption venues draw a conservative character.
Consumption character
Looking at the types of consumption venues in 19 Mayıs, the neighborhood sits at the conservative end of the secular/conservative public space scale.
Ballot box · political leaning
In the second round of the 2023 presidential election, muhalefet bloğunun cumhurbaşkanı adayı received 83.9% of the vote at 19 Mayıs's ballot boxes. In the 2024 local elections, CHP finished ahead in the district mayoral race with 72.1%. With this vote distribution, the neighborhood falls in the 96% band of Istanbul's spectrum from ruling bloc vote to opposition bloc vote.
The scale shows political bloc preference; cultural identity is not inferred from the vote. Source and methodology
This is not a measure of belief or lifestyle. Source and methodology
Building Stock
The neighborhood's building construction period and floor distribution. Construction period is the strongest factor determining earthquake risk.
Source: İBB Open Data (2017 Neighborhood-Level Building Counts). Construction after 2017 is not reflected in this count.
Earthquake Risk (İBB Possible Earthquake Scenario)
Projected values for this neighborhood in the expected major Marmara earthquake.
İBB olası deprem senaryosu (mahalle bazında)
Soil class
There is next to no loose or soft soil (Z3-Z4) in 19 Mayıs. Ground motion here is felt on average 19% stronger than on rock.
Source: İBB Microzonation, Soil Classification Map (per the Earthquake Code). 100% of the neighborhood is covered by the map; the shares are based on that portion. The map's positional accuracy was measured at 170 meters, so it does not resolve to a single parcel.
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