45.5 Percentage of West Roxbury’s 5,900 households that include married couples — the highest in Boston. At 63.7 percent, it also has the highest percentage of owner-occupied homes in the city.

$647,027

Average price of the 49 single-family homes listed recently on the MLS Property Information Network.

$5.99

Price of a 16-inch cheese pizza at Comella’s on Centre Street. On Fridays, customers start calling in orders as soon as the store opens at 11:30 a.m. During Lent, it’s even busier. That’s amore.

325

Number of girls who play in the Parkway Girls Softball League. The brother organization, Parkway Little League, has even higher numbers.

PRO

Another man’s treasure

Millennium Park, a 100-acre park that includes trails, playgrounds, and a canoe launch, was created on the site of a landfill. You have to love the fact that a portion along the Charles River is known as Dump Shoreline.

CON

Stop and go, then stop some more

The two main thoroughfares, Centre Street and the VFW Parkway, weren’t built to handle today’s volume of commuter traffic. It’s a familiar story across the state.

PRO

Suburbia in the city

With an abundance of single-family homes, backyards, and tree-lined streets, it feels more suburban than a typical city neighborhood.

Vanessa Parks is a writer in Central Massachusetts. Send comments to Address@globe.com.