Katip Kasım Neighborhood, Fatih

The Katip Kasım neighborhood is located in Fatih district, made up of 529 buildings.

Where Is Katip Kasım?

The Katip Kasım neighborhood is adjacent to neighborhoods such as Aksaray, Balabanağa, İskenderpaşa.

Katip Kasım

Who Lives in the Katip Kasım Neighborhood?

This neighborhood has no demographic data: the source only covers the 745 neighborhoods with a population over 2,000.

Indicators are compiled from TÜİK, BTK and İBB Open Data records. Source and methodology

Profile of Katip Kasım Neighborhood Residents

Hometowns

YurtDışı-DoğuŞanlıurfaMardinBatmanYurtDışı-Orta DoğuYurtDışı-Afrika

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). 19 households from this neighborhood responded.

What Is the Katip Kasım Neighborhood Like?

Ballot box · political leaning

In the second round of the 2023 presidential election, muhalefet bloğunun cumhurbaşkanı adayı received 63.2% of the vote at Katip Kasım's ballot boxes. In the 2024 local elections, CHP finished ahead in the district mayoral race with 61.5%. With this vote distribution, the neighborhood falls in the 76% band of Istanbul's spectrum from ruling bloc vote to opposition bloc vote.

Opposition bloc ahead
ruling blocopposition bloc

The scale shows political bloc preference; cultural identity is not inferred from the vote. Source and methodology

Civic fabric · associations

7 associations are registered with an address in the neighborhood. Most are in the meslek ve dayanışma category (5 associations). The sharpest deviation from Istanbul's composition is in the meslek ve dayanışma category: 14 points higher than citywide.

Meslek ve dayanışma5 · 71%+14 points
Kültür, sanat, turizm1 · 14%+10 points
Dini hizmet1 · 14%+7 points

The vertical line is that category's citywide share.

Hometown associations

Karabük

It shows which communities have organized here, not who lives here. Source and methodology

This is not a measure of belief or lifestyle. Source and methodology

Transportation in the Katip Kasım Neighborhood

Within Katip Kasım's boundaries, 10 different İETT bus lines pass through 1 bus stops. The neighborhood is served by the M1A and M1B and M2 metro lines, the T1 tram line, Marmaray; the nearest station is "Yenikapı," 177 m from the boundary. There is a "Yenikapı İDO" ferry pier here; 3 sea lines depart from here.

Rail lines
5
M1A · M1B · M2 · Marmaray · T1
Ferry lines
3
1 ferry piers
Bus lines
10
1 stops
🚇 Yenikapı · M1A, M1B, M2, Marmaray · 177 m🚇 Aksaray · T1 · 259 m🚇 Laleli - İstanbul Ü. · T1 · 334 m⛴ Yenikapı İDO

Stops were counted within the neighborhood boundary; rail stations and ferry piers have a 400 meter buffer. Source and methodology

Building Stock

The neighborhood's building construction period and floor distribution. Construction period is the strongest factor determining earthquake risk.

75%
22%
before 19801980–2000after 2000
Total buildings
529
31.3 buildings/ha
Average floors
4.2
10+ floors
0.2%
Neighborhood area
16.9ha

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.

Very heavy damage
29buildings
Heavy damage
48buildings
Moderate damage
128buildings
Heavy+ rate
19.9%
share of damaged buildings
Projected fatalities
7
Severely injured
5
Temporary shelter
249people

İBB olası deprem senaryosu (mahalle bazında)

Soil class

80%
20%
Z1 · rock / very denseZ3 · medium dense to loose

20% of Katip Kasım's soil is in the loose or soft class (Z3-Z4). Ground motion here is felt on average 8% stronger than on rock.

Source: İBB Microzonation, Soil Classification Map (per the Earthquake Code). 45% 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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