Petroliş Neighborhood, Kartal
The Petroliş neighborhood is located in Kartal district, made up of 1,272 buildings.
Who Lives in the Petroliş Neighborhood?
29K people live in Petroliş, at a density of 27K people per km². That is 1.5 times the Istanbul average density. The median age is 40; the Istanbul neighborhood average is 36, which makes this a neighborhood 5 years older. The average household here has 2.9 people. The average length of schooling is 11 years, 1 years above the city average. 34% 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
Socioeconomic status
Indicators are compiled from TÜİK, BTK and İBB Open Data records. Source and methodology
Profile of Petroliş Neighborhood Residents
Resident satisfaction
Share who said "satisfied" or "very satisfied." The vertical line marks the Kartal 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). 97 households from this neighborhood responded.
What Is the Petroliş Neighborhood Like?
Petroliş is a neighborhood with an education level close to the Istanbul average; 34% of adults are university graduates. By household, very few households receive social assistance (1.6%). At the ballot box, the opposition bloc is ahead markedly (71%). 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 Petroliş, 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 71.3% of the vote at Petroliş's ballot boxes. In the 2024 local elections, CHP finished ahead in the district mayoral race with 66.6%. With this vote distribution, the neighborhood falls in the 86% 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
Civic fabric · associations
9 associations are registered with an address in the neighborhood. Most are in the meslek ve dayanışma category (8 associations). The sharpest deviation from Istanbul's composition is in the meslek ve dayanışma category: 31 points higher than citywide.
The vertical line is that category's citywide share.
Hometown associations
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
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.
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