The World According to Yelp: No Hipsters in Highland Park

It’s “official”—despite plenty of evidence to the contrary, there aren’t any hipsters in Highland Park.

That’s the word according to Yelp, the Internet ratings and reviews service, which has created a heat map of hipster spots in 14 cities, including Los Angeles, based on how frequently keywords such as “hipster,” “yuppie” and “pricey” appear on Yelp’s data-visualizing “Wordmap.” (Besides yuppie hotspots, the heat map features areas based on a total of 17 words—other include “cocktails,” “hangover” and “parking.”)

According to Yelp’s hipster heat map, hipsters are densest in Echo Park and Silver Lake, where, incidentally, much of the “hangovers” are also clustered. 

And that's good news, according to the HLP90042 blog, which The Eastsider L.A. credits with the following tweet: 

Oh good. Highland Park barely registers when compared to Echo Park and Silver Lake.

The Yelp heat map appears to be handy tool for hipsters and yuppies, who tend to live different neighborhoods to begin with, ways of further avoiding each other while keeping an eye on overpriced restaurants at the same time.

Click here to view Yelp’s hipster heat map.