what ten districts do you think has the highest percent of

[jimrtex]

Incidentally, Graceland was builit in 1939, so Memphis does have at least one old house.

The idea that a house built in 1939 is old is hilarious.

In NV-3, anything built before 1970 is in the oldest 2.63%.

[freepcrusher]

Incidentally, Graceland was builit in 1939, so Memphis does have at least one old house.

The idea that a house built in 1939 is old is hilarious.

the fact that probably half the people born in 1939 are dead means to me that it is old.

[freepcrusher]

question for jimrtex - do you know where to find this info. It would be interesting to see what district has the highest median year home was built and which has the lowest

[DINGO Joe]

How about WV-3?

Probably a candidate for most abandoned housing, not just the decline of population, but even in "good times" coal town after coal town would be built and then abandoned when the coal ran out.  Some of the later ones did have some well built housing, but most were substandard with roads and water supply sketchy at best. 

Really that era still hasn't ended

[Torie]

Hudson, NY must be around 90%.  My house was built in 1870. Nothing on my block was built after 1910.

[jimrtex]

question for jimrtex - do you know where to find this info. It would be interesting to see what district has the highest median year home was built and which has the lowest

Using American FactFinder.

Earliest median age built (ACS 2010-4). The ACS form limits responses to 1939 or earlier. For those 6 districts, they are ranked by percentage built before 1939. They are listed countdown style so that PA-14 is number 10.

Congressional District 14 (114th Congress), Pennsylvania   1947
Congressional District 1 (114th Congress), Pennsylvania   1944
Congressional District 2 (114th Congress), Pennsylvania   1943
Congressional District 12 (114th Congress), California   1941
Congressional District 13 (114th Congress), New York   50.0%
Congressional District 10 (114th Congress), New York   54.0%
Congressional District 7 (114th Congress), Massachusetts   54.0%
Congressional District 7 (114th Congress), New York      56.3%
Congressional District 9 (114th Congress), New York      57.7%
Congressional District 4 (114th Congress), Illinois      63.1%

Latest median year built.

Congressional District 3 (114th Congress), Nevada   2000
Congressional District 4 (114th Congress), Nevada   1997
Congressional District 22 (114th Congress), Texas   1997
Congressional District 26 (114th Congress), Texas   1997
Congressional District 8 (114th Congress), Arizona   1996
Congressional District 9 (114th Congress), Florida   1996
Congressional District 5 (114th Congress), Arizona   1995
Congressional District 42 (114th Congress), California   1995
Congressional District 7 (114th Congress), Georgia   1995
Congressional District 3 (114th Congress), Texas   1995

[DINGO Joe]

Hudson, NY must be around 90%.  My house was built in 1870. Nothing on my block was built after 1910.

I'm guessing these are mostly good, well built houses. Not the tenements that were built at the time (if HUDSON even had those).

Good, well built can devolve into tenements and then gentrify into excluding the poor.  In the first part of the 20th century, the French Quarter in New Orleans was a slum that packed  in as many Italian immigrants as it could.

[freepcrusher]

if we were to do an apples-to-apples comparison of just single family homes - and to avoid small sample sizes like nadler's district - each district had to have the same number of single family homes - what would the nyc districts be like? I'm not familiar with how many SF homes exist in the u.s. but my guess is it would look like this. The southern district basically takes in almost all of brooklyn, all of queens west of 678 and south of 495/grand ave and staten island. The northern district takes in all of manhattan, the bronx, queens west of 678 and north of 495/grand ave and everything south of portchester in wsc county.

My guess is the northern district would have a older median year built (I'm guessing around 1920) because despite westchester technically being "suburban" I'd guess that the area south of portchester has half the homes built before the depression. Meanwhile SI, while technically part of the city is relatively newer which gives the southern district a newer median year built.


Edit: the link isn't working (maybe too big) so here's the picture: https://talkelections.org/FORUM/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view&id=25077