The idea to form a neighborhood association can start with just a few people. Neighborhood Partners has on-line tips about how to identify and organize your neighborhood.

Contiguous geography tends to be an overriding factor in how neighborhood boundaries are formed in Rock Island. Size can range from 50 to 700 or more households. Most neighborhoods are built around common themes or physical characteristics. Boundaries for identified neighborhoods can also emerge and change as new neighborhood associations are founded.

The Rock Island Planning & Redevelopment Division maintains a current list of neighborhood association contact information. Request it through email or by phone.

Neighborhood associations are independent, neighborhood-based organizations with their own structure and officers and often represent hundreds of households. Neighborhood watches are organized by the Community Caring Conference with the specific purpose of preventing crime. Block clubs, networked as part of a larger system under the Community Caring Conference’s structure, are small groups of neighbors who socialize and work together on localized issues.

You can join an active neighborhood association, neighborhood watch or block club in your vicinity. You can form your own neighborhood group. You can be involved with a Neighborhood Partners task force that works on joint neighborhood issues.