Prairie Village, Louisville

Prairie Village is a neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky, composed of a series of subdivisions and farms centered on the intersection of Third Street Road, Valley Station Road, and Stonestreet Road.^[1]

Economy and real estate

The median value of Prairie Village real estate is currently around $125,000-$300,000. The average household income is around $78,255. The average age of homes in the area is 36 years, although this varies widely. Historic homes are intermixed with subdivided developments from the last 30 years.There are many sections of Valley Station known as Prairie Hills, Prairie Village Estates, and the Original Prairie Village. The amount of subdivisions in Valley Station is numerous.

Job growth in the area is estimated at over seven percent through 2010.

Healthcare

Jewish and Saint Mary's Hospital Southwest, a regional hospital and healthcare facility, is located in Prairie Village. This campus also includes physicians offices and lab services. This facility also serves as an emergency care center serving the Southwest Jefferson County, Bullitt County, and Hardin County Areas.

Medical Specialties Represented on this campus include cardiologists, family practitioners, gynecologists, gastroenterologists, internal medicine physicians, oncologists, podiatrists and urologists.^[2]^[3]

Education

Two Public Schools located near the Prairie Village subdivision, Stonestreet Elementary and Stuart Middle School, which the largest middle school in Jefferson County and the state of Kentucky.^[4] The high schools for the area are Doss, PRP, and Valley High Schools.^[5]

The Campus of Jefferson Community College Southwest is also located near the Prairie Village subdivision. This campus offers stand alone programs for AA degrees in varying field including nursing which utilizes the adjacent Jewish and Saint Mary's Hospital Southwest Campus.^[6]

Religion

Prairie Village is near several churches. Churches closest to the neighborhood include the Community of Christ, Life Church Louisville and The Louisville Dream Center, Faith Presbyterian Church,^[7] and Virginia Avenue United Methodist Church.^[8] Valley View Church a megachurch is located on Old Third Street Road. Just outside the Prairie Village subdivision is the Valley Station Campus of Highview Baptist Church which is a multi-campus megachurch.^[9]^[10]

Baseball

Prairie Village is also home of a large Babe Ruth / Cal Ripken Program. Prairie Village Baseball has been in the neighborhood for over 40 years located behind Stonestreet Elementary School. Some of its players have gone on to play for past State Baseball Champion PRP High School's team. They offer T-Ball, Baseball, and Softball, and are co-ed.^[11]

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Places in Louisville Metro

Prairie Village

Jefferson Memorial Forest

Neighborhoods, Suburbs, Census Designated Places, Districts and Areas in Louisville Metro

East Side (Old City)	Audubon Avondale-Melbourne Heights Bashford Manor Bon Air Bradley Brownsboro-Zorn Butchertown Camp Taylor Cherokee Gardens Cherokee-Seneca Clifton Clifton Heights Crescent Hill East Market District (NuLu) Gardiner Lane Germantown Hawthorne Hayfield Dundee The Highlands Belknap Bonnycastle Cherokee Triangle Deer Park Highlands-Douglass Irish Hill Original Highlands Phoenix Hill (portion) Tyler Park Hikes Point Klondike Meriwether Phoenix Hill Poplar Level Prestonia Rockcreek-Lexington Road St. Joseph Schnitzelburg

East Side (Suburbs, CDPs and Rural Hamlets)	Anchorage Ashville-Glenmary Audubon Park Avoca Bancroft Barbourmeade Beckley Station Beechwood Village Bellemeade Bellewood Berrytown Blue Ridge Manor Boston Buechel Briarwood Broeck Pointe Brownsboro Farm Brownsboro Village Cambridge Clark Station Coldstream Creekside Crossgate Douglass Hills Druid Hills Eastwood English Station Fairmount Fern Creek Fincastle Fisherville Forest Hills Freys Hill Glenview Glenview Hills Glenview Manor Goose Creek Griffytown Graymoor-Devondale Green Spring Harrods Creek Hickory Hill Highview Hills and Dales Houston Acres Hurstbourne Acres Hurstbourne Indian Hills Jeffersontown Kingsley Langdon Place Lake Louisvilla Lakeland Lincolnshire Long Run Longview Lyndon Lynnview Manor Creek Maryhill Estates Meadow Vale Meadowview Estates Meadowbrook Farm Middletown Mockingbird Valley Moorland Murray Hill Newburg Norbourne Estates Northfield Norwood O'Bannon Old Brownsboro Place Parkway Village Plantation Plainview The Point Poplar Hills Prospect Richlawn Riverwood Rolling Fields Rolling Hills St. Matthews Broad Fields Cherrywood Village Fairmeade Plymouth Village Springlee St. Regis Park Seatonville Seneca Gardens Smyrna Springdale Springhurst Spring Mill Spring Valley Strathmoor Manor Strathmoor Village Sycamore Ten Broeck Thixton Thornhill Tucker Station Watterson Park Warwick Village Wellington West Buechel Westwood Whipps Millgate Whitner Wildwood Windy Hills Wolf Creek Woodland Hills Woodlawn Park Worthington Worthington Hills

South Side (Old City)	Auburndale Beechmont Cloverleaf Edgewood Hazelwood Highland Park Iroquois Jacobs Kenwood Hill Limerick Parkwood South Louisville Southland Park Southside Standiford Taylor-Berry Wilder Park Wyandotte

South Side (Suburbs, CDPs and Rural Hamlets)	Bethany Fairdale Greenwood Heritage Creek Hollyvilla Hollow Creek Johnsontown Kosmosdale Lake Dreamland Lynnview Medora Okolona Orell Penile Pleasure Ridge Park Prairie Village Riverside Gardens St. Dennis Shively Sylvania Valley Downs Valley Gardens Valley Station Valley Village Waverly Hills

West Side	Algonquin California Chickasaw Hallmark Park DuValle Park Hill Parkland Portland Shawnee Rubbertown Russell

Downtown	Downtown West Main District Old Louisville Shelby Park Smoketown

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