12/15/10 02:03 - ID#53278

Census data

The NYT has published interactive maps by census tract of race, income, educational achievement, home values, same-sex couples...

The census tract that includes Blossburg, 9907, is really big and covers one of the more wealthy areas of the county - a little distorting. I can't get it to just show me by zip code - Census tracts are much bigger than zip codes in Tioga County, while they're only a couple blocks tall/wide in Buffalo.

Same-sex couple households
Census tract 68 (my apt): 2%
Census tract 6702 (including the 24) 5%
Blossburg's census tract: 0%
But the neighboring one where I know my old friends Vince & Jeff live - 1%! :-)

Median household income
Census tract 68: $34K
but the tract behind me, 7101: $16K, and the one next to that $11K.
Blossburg tract: $43.9K

Race & ethnicity
Census tract 68: 67% white, 16% black, 14% hispanic
Census tract 7101: 16% white, 36% black, 45% hispanic
Blossburg tract: 98% white

Education
Census tract 68: 93% high school diploma, 50% bachelors degrees
Census tract 687101: 49% high school diploma, 6% bachelors degrees
Blossburg: 88% HS 21% bachelors (distorted by including the Wellsboro area)
Morris Run: 89%, 13% (more typical of Tioga County)

How do areas in your life compare?

tinypliny writes at 11:53:05 12/15/10 - Comment #59791: I agree. I am fascinated - this is probably the backbone of all of our epidemiological studies. In fact, I just spammed your link to ALL of my department. Thanks, (e:heidi).

:-)

oda writes at 10:23:40 12/15/10 - Comment #59787: I moved out of Buffalo to Holland, NY, census tract 15003, almost 2 years ago. Holland is 12 miles southeast of east aurora, the last town in Erie County We are bordered by Cattaraugus and Wyoming Counties.

Population of our zip code is about 1200, which includes both town and rural areas. We don't have a grocery store or a gas station, but we do have a pizzaria, a hardware store, and a liquor store.

FYI, most of the rural folk have land. That means they have money. Most of the townies probably have much less money. I don't know how many are town folk and how many are rural in our area.

white population: 98%

hispanic population: 1%

foreign born: 1%

same sex couples: 1% (up 1% since 2000)

median income: $66,300 (up 10% since 2000)

median home value: $137,500

high school graduates: 91%

college grads: 23%

masters degrees: 9%

elementary school students in private schools: 0% (we have an amazing school system, I have heard)

Heidi, this is the most interesting thing i've seen on the internet in a very long time--thanks!!!!

tinypliny writes at 09:31:52 12/15/10 - Comment #59782: I am really getting into this now. There are just 2% Asians in my tract, 3% hispanics, 1% others.

59% of us earn below 30K a year (typical grad school "earnings"), we got 2% poorer since 2000. 3% earn above 200K - I am sure these are the ones living in those Lexington condos. I pay above the median rent of $604, and apparently the rent has not changed much (+1%) since 2000 - but I swear it has, look at all my whining in the past couple years! The median home value has gone up a whopping 61% to $297,700, so I guess I will never be able to buy that mansion next to (e:PMT)'s.

There has been a 3% increase in sanity in the neighbourhood as evidenced by an increase of 3% in same-sex couples up to a total of 5% of the population in the tract. 91% of us have graduated from high school, slightly more than half of us have graduated from colleges and one fourth have a masters or higher.

KEWL.

tinypliny writes at 09:15:27 12/15/10 - Comment #59781: Alrighty, I found something interesting.
I am in Census tract 6702
Foreign Born Population - 6%
So I am a super-minority.

heidi writes at 08:41:34 12/15/10 - Comment #59779: about effin' time, ya damned lurker.

puddlediving writes at 08:35:19 12/15/10 - Comment #59778: I found this interesting enough that I joined estrip so I could comment. :)

I compared 3 neighborhoods, Riverside west of Ontario (55), Riverside east of Ontario(54), & Topeka, KS where I grew up (29).

All were 0-1% for same sex households

Median household income
Riverside (west)55: $19889
Riverside (east)54: $70,179
Topeka 29: $30,426

Race & ethnicity
55: 64% white, 19% black, 11 % Hispanic, 3% Asian, 3% other
54: 85% white, 9% black, 3% Hispanic, 2% Asian, 2% other
Topeka: 43% white, 27% black, 18% Hispanic, 12% other

Education:
55: 73% HS, 11% bachelors, 5% Masters
54: 95% HS, 57% bachelors, 34% Masters
Topeka 79% HS, 6% bachelors, 2% Masters

Some of the things that surprised me: The neighborhood I grew up in is more ethnically diverse than the Riverside neighborhoods. I even wonder what the 12% other is, as that is a significant portion.

I was also surprised at the disparities between the neighborhoods in Riverside. Such a jump in income and education (which I'm sure are correlated) based on which side of Ontario Street you live on. I'm sure the third that have Masters degrees help bring the median income up!